War Quotes

Personally I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.

Richard Dawkings:, "The Selfish Gene".

Cry Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war.

William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 1

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

When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mister Brave Man, I guess I am a coward.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

Herbert Spence

War is like love; it always finds a way.

Bertolt Brecht

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

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

Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Virtue is praised but hated. People run away from it, for it is ice - Cold and in this world you must keep your feet warm.

Denis Diderot

Whenever you take a step forward you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the ground.

Indira Ghandi

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

Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions.

Robert Ardrey

All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

George Bernard Shaw

Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.

Albert Camus

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

Voltaire

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

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.

Ernest Hemingway

Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.

Theodore Ledyard Cuyle

Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.

Eric Nicol

Love is like war easy to begin but very hard to stop.

Henry Louis Mencken

Experience is a hard teacher becuase she gives the tests first, the lessons afterwards.

Vernon Suanders Law, Chicken Soup for the Teenage soul: Tough Stuff

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Napoleon Hill

There never was a good war, or a bad peace.

Benjamin Franklin

War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength.

George Orwell, Book "1984".

War is hell, and I mean to make it so.

William Tecumseh Sherman

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

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

Beware of the fury of the patient man.

John Dryden

You progress not through improving what has been done, but reaching toward what has yet to be done.

Kahlil Gibran

War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.

Niccolo Machiavelli

We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.

William Shakespeare

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

Charlotte Bronte

David I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem *may* have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being *crushed* by a *dwarf*. Alright That tended to understate the hugeness of the object.

This Is Spinal Tap

Europe is spreading its wings. In freedom. In prosperity. And in peace. It is a truly proud moment for the European Union. It is a triumph for liberty and democracy. To our new members I say: ? Warmly welcome to our family?. Our new Europe is born.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, (Prime Minister of Denmark) Family photo after the European Council meeting in Copenhagen, 13 December 20

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty