War Quotes
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce The cuckoo clock.Orson Welles
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.Colton
A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.Pietro Aretino
War is like love; it always finds a way.Bertolt Brecht
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.Antoine de Saint - Exupery
Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.Frances Rodman
War is hell, and I mean to make it so.William Tecumseh Sherman
The only reward of virtue is virtue the only way to have a friend is to be one.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.J. B. Priestley
The longest journey is the journey inward.Dag Hammarskjold
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
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
Experience is a hard teacher becuase she gives the tests first, the lessons afterwards.Vernon Suanders Law, Chicken Soup for the Teenage soul: Tough Stuff
Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.G. Hoppe
I have been like a child walking along the shore line. Quickly discarding one sea shell for another of more outward beauty - - Never to know the pearl within!Robert Anthony, The Man Who Would Never Be King
Husbands are awkward things to deal with even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.Mary Lorraine Buckley
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.Rebecca West
If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.Gurdjieff
Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?William Punshon
Sweet is war to those who know it not.Pinda
Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here...Stan Openshaw - Doomsday
But in modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason.Ernest Hemingway
He who is not aware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.Richard Whatley
Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.Woodrow Wilson
The only reward for love is the experience of loving.John LeCarre, The Secret Pilgrim
Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.Lane Olinghouse
Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness of a road leading towards the unknown.Charles De Gaulle
Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.Johann von Goethe
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.Karl Kraus
The strongest of all warriors are these two - - Time and Patience.Leo Tolstoy
Nature does not loathe virtue it is unaware of its existence.Franoise Mallet - Joris
Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.Frank Herbert, Dune
This is obviously an act of war that has been committed on the United States. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.John McCain
An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.Carl Jung
War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.Georges Clemenceau
Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence.Sun - Tzu
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
