War Quotes

We are just tenants on this world. We have just been given a new lease, and a warning from the landlord.
Arthur C. Clarke, 2010
Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday... The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.
Ayn Rand
G. hoppe - life was simple before world war ii. after that,...
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
Norman Vincent Peale
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment - There are consequences.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Life is not advancement. It is growth. It does not move upward, but expands outward, in all directions.
Russell G. Alexande
If men want to oppose war, it is *statism* that they must oppose.
Ayn Rand, Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal p. 42
William shakespeare - we do not keep the outward form of order, where...
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.
Jules de Gautie
Hannah whitall smith - where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward...
There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers - By see only a wisp of smoke.
Vincent Van Gogh
The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process.
Herbert Butterfield
The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.
Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation - First Speake
In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.
Margaret of Valois
We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - No alternative.
Golda Mei
Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.
Author Unknown
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, "Julius Caesar", Act 2 scene 2
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Mahatma Gandhi
Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.
Ronald Reagan
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
Quentin Crisp
To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
Marcus Aurelius
There is only one way in which a person acquires a new idea; by combination or association of two or more ideas he already has into a new juxtaposition in such a manner as to discover a relationship among them of which he was not previously aware.
Francis A. Carte
A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
Hal Borland
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
Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.
Thich Nhat Hanh
You progress not through improving what has been done, but reaching toward what has yet to be done.
Kahlil Gibran
In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last then super - Added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.
Horace
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.
William Shakespeare
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
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.
Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
Beware of the man to whom you have done a good turn.
Lebanese Prove
Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert Camus
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
Edmund Spenser, 1590
Wars teach us not to love our enemies but to hate our allies.
W. L. George
A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all - Powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic.
Aldous Huxley
The outcome of the war is in our hands the outcome of words is in the council.
Home
A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard Shaw
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
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
George S. Patton