War Quotes

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
Omar Bradley, Speech to Boston Chamber of Commerce, 1948
Osho, my way: the way of the white clouds - if people become ecstatic the whole society will...
Nothing in the world will take away persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than an unsuccessful man with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge
We all use our imagination every day. However, most of us are unaware that what we envision affects every cell of our bodies and every aspect of our performance.
Marilyn King
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Dwight D Eisenhowe
Compulsion cannot produce virtue; it can only produce the outward semblance of virtue.
Dinesh D? Souza
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
G. C. Lichtenberg
I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.
Ayn Rand, Anthem, 1946
This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.
George Will
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
Andr Gide
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
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality (Harcourt)
The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time.
Milton Friedman
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Richard milhous nixon - we are all in it together. this is a war. we take...
What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.
Karl Kraus
War is not nice.
Barbara Bush
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
Phillips Brooks
Happiness is a warm puppy.
Charles M. Schultz, Linus in "Peanuts".
A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools.
Thucydides
Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.
Holbrook Jackson
No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace - - In peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.
Croesus of Lydia
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
Prince Otto
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
Demosthenes
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - - when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions - - It becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
Isaac Bashevis Singe
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
The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
When we truly care for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people. The more alert and sensitive we are to our own needs, the more loving and generaous we can be toward others.
Eda LeShan
Son, in war times it is not safe to think unless one travels with the mob.
Charles Lindberg Sr. to Charles Lindberg Jr. in 1917
During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour at Omaha it held up the U. S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.
Stephen Ambrose
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
Let us not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around us in awareness.
James Thurbe
Some of the most rewarding and beautiful moments of a friendship happen in the unforeseen open spaces between planned activities. It is important that you allow these spaces to exist.
Christine Leefeldt
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
Dwight D. Eisenhowe
The NeXT Computer The hardware makes it a PC, the software makes it a workstation, the unit sales makes it a mainframe.
Anon.
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love seeks one thing only the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.
Thomas Merton
All governments eventually lean further and further towards aristocracy.
Frank Herbert, Dune