War Quotes

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
John mortimer, the observer (1999) - beauty is handed out as undemocratically as...
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 aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle
Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it it is the future that makes laws for us today.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
Mao Tse - Tung
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
Thomas Alva Edison
There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
Mary Bertone
Compulsion cannot produce virtue; it can only produce the outward semblance of virtue.
Dinesh D? Souza
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
Jules de Gaultie
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
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion... I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
Richard Milhous Nixon
Beware the man of one book.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Lyndon b. johnson - we have the opportunity to move not only toward...
It is never too late with us, so long as we are aware of our faults and bear them impatiently.
Jacobi
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
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first then seek to win.
Sun Tzu
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
Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.
Unknown
As we grow old? the beauty steals inward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
Margaret Mead
He grounds the warship he walks on.
John Bracken on Captain Barney Kelly, who ran the USS Enterprise into the mud of San Francisco Bay in May 1983
Hardware the parts of a computer that can be kicked.
Jeff Pesis
There are two ways of constructing a software design One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
C. A. R. Hoare
To state a theorem and then to show examples is literally to teach backwards.
E. Kim Nebeuts
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wars teach us not to love our enemies but to hate our allies.
W. L. George
No sun - No moon! No morn - No noon - No dawn - No dusk - No proper time of day. No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member - No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!
Thomas Hood (1799 - 1845), in the poem called No!
Remember Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.
Endicott Peabody
We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.
Don Delillo
In war there is no substitute for victory.
General Douglas MacArthu
War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.
Georges Clemenceau
The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.
Thomas a Kempis
Do not be like servants who serve their masters expecting to receive a reward be rather like servants who serve their master unconditionally, with no thought of reward.
Antigonus of Sokho
I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone.
William F. Claire
War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.
General Smedley Butle
The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception.
Baron Manfred von Richthofen ("Red Baron")
War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength.
George Orwell, Book "1984".