War Quotes
I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.J. R. R. Tolkien
I understand that smoking is vaguely inappropriate in certain situations. You know, like an orphanage, cancer ward, whatever.Greg Proops
The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell.Saint Augustine
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.Salvador Dali
Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence.Sun - Tzu
What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.Matthew Arnold
It is never too late with us, so long as we are aware of our faults and bear them impatiently.Jacobi
To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery - Into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared.E. H. Chapin
She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me Oh then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light.Hartley Coleridge
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.Nathaniel Hawthorne
Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title - Deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.Benjamin Disraeli
As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.Oscar Wilde
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.Albert Einstein, Telegram, 24 May 1946
Christmas The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given - - when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes.Joan Winmill Brown
The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.Alexander Haig
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
Geschichte ist... ein Dialog zwischen Gegenwart und Vergangenheit. re - Transl.: History is... a dialogue between the present and the past.Edward Hallet Carr, Was ist Geschichte?, S. 54
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.Ralph Waldo Emerson
An understanding heart is everything is 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 Gustav Jung
Americans become unhappy and vicious because their preoccupation with amassing possessions obliterates their loneliness. This is why production in America seems to be on such an endless upward spiral: every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something.Philip Saltie
The best soldiers are not warlike.Chinese
What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt.Kahlil Gibran
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward.Saint Francis Xavie
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.Rene Descartes
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
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.Rebecca West
To insist on strength... is not war - Mongering. It is peace - Mongering.Barry Goldwate
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.Theodore Roosevelt
For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though a late, a sure reward succeeds.William Congreve, The Mourning Bride
The greatest paradox of them all is to speak of civilized warfare.Author Unknown
Beware of those who laugh at nothing or everything.Arnold Glasgow
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
In all things that involve social pressures, if we want to see change we have to force the envelope outwards.Gary Lee Phillips
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.Dr. David M. Burns
The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.Cicero
To state a theorem and then to show examples is literally to teach backwards.E. Kim Nebeuts
