War Quotes

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh

War connot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the others advantage.

Niccolo Machiavelli

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

Thomas Jefferson

I took a speed - Reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

Woody Allen

Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller, New Yorker, Jan. 8, 1966

There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Johann von Goethe

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

Mark Twain

All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and there is no cause to value one above the other.

H. P. Lovecraft

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

Prince Otto

A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.

Kahlil Gibran

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929

Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.

Miguel de Cervantes

If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it.

Danish prove

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.

Eric Hoffe

The U. S. victory in Gulf war was a stirring victory for the forces of aggression.

Dan Quayle, 4/11/91 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)

But in modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason.

Ernest Hemingway

Create the kind of climate in your organization where personal growth is expected, recognized and rewarded.

Author Unknown

The only reward of virtue is virtue the only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.

Thomas S. Szasz

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Hebrews 13: 2

Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves to like themselves.

Bonaro Overstreet

Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

Cicero

War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength.

George Orwell, Book "1984".

Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat - Oppressed brain.

William Shakespeare

The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.

F. Nietzsche, The Wanderer and His Shadow

Real joy, which comes from loving to do good things without wanting to be repaid, is the reward that lasts forever.

Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine" #155

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.

John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty", 1859

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

Gilbert Chesterton

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.

Rita Rudne

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

George Bernard Shaw

Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.

Cicero

History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

Sarah Vowell, Assassination Vacation (p. 208)

How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.

Karl Kraus

Art is a step from what is obvious and well - Known toward what is arcane and concealed.

Kahlil Gibran

When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

Leonardo da Vinci

Programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiot - Proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.

Unknown

The fact is that we prepare for war like giants, and for peace like pygmies.

Lester Bowles Pearson