War Quotes

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.

Simone de Beauvoi

Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Rich Cook

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

Seneca

We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a great distance, not by virtue of any sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.

Bernard of Chartres, 12th Century

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese prove

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

Bokonon

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.

Ricthe

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow, and the triumphs that are aftermath of war.

Herbert Hoove

Cry Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war.

William Shakespeare

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike.

Oscar Wilde

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.

Lord William Beveridge

We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

Alfred North Whitehead

We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized.

Elliot Wayne Eisne

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

George Santayana

This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.

George Will

It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who would profit by the old order, only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new.

Machiavelli

Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.

Otto Von Bismarck

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech, April 2, 1957

A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.

Sir James Glove

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

George Sand

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

Tonight - To you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support. On his Vietnam War policy.

Richard Milhous Nixon

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Joseph Conrad

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster, as a small child

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.

Norman Vincent Peale

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richte

Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.

Lane Olinghouse

Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

Margaret Fulle

In peace, children inter their parents war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

Herodotus

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired in the final analysis, is a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and not clothed.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.

Matthew Arnold

The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.

Emma Goldman

To sin in silence while others doth protest makes cowards out of men.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ginger Rodgers did everything Fred Astair did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.

Faith Whittlesey

And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

Isaiah

War is like love it always finds a way.

Bertolt Brecht