War Quotes

The NeXT Computer The hardware makes it a PC, the software makes it a workstation, the unit sales makes it a mainframe.

Anon.

Success gravitates toward those who are perceived to be successful. Regardless of how you feel within, you must emanate success if you want to attract people to your cause.

Jeff Herman

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Rene Descartes

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Ernest Hemingway

Become aware of internal, subjective subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc., with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hither unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Abraham Harold Maslow

The antiwar movement is a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the country like a prairie fire.

Richard Milhous Nixon

One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.

Quentin Crisp

We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.

Blaise Pascal

Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help lift him up.

Ecclesiastes 4910 Bible

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy It is the green - Eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

William Shakespeare

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.

H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old - Fashioned.

George Santayana, Winds of Doctrine (1913) ch. 2

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

Herodotus

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantages of others.

Niccolo Machiavelli

One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.

Anatol Rapoport

Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.

Horace, Epistles

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Brian Tracy

Where talent is a dwarf, self - Esteem is a giant.

J. Petit - Senn

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

Robert Bolt

O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall.

Dante Alighieri

It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.

Sue Grafton

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

Rebecca West

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

Carl von Clausewitz

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

Emma Goldman

To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.

Sun Tzu, The Art of Wa

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

Desiderius Erasmus

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.

Ursula K. LeGuin

To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.

South

Cowards die many times before their deathsThe valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In war, you win or lose, live or die - And the difference is just an eyelash.

General Douglas MacArthu

Dick, frankly you do not have the war plan... which makes me quite happy.

Donald Rumsfeld, 1st briefing after "shock and awe" started

Indians are plenty smart. We catch small wood. Build small fire. Stand close and stay warm all over. White men not so smart. They catch big wood. Build big fire. Stand far away, burn face and freeze ass.

Henry Seely

Cowards die many times before their deaths The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

William Shakespeare

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

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

Benjamin Disraeli