War Quotes

Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward - Your destiny - Are here and now.

Dag Hammarskjold, newpaper quote of the day

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

Omar Bradley, Speech to Boston Chamber of Commerce, 1948

Beware the ides of March.

William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 1 scene 2

To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him. You lift the relationship thereby to a higher level. The best in the other person begins to flow out toward you as your best flows toward him. In the meeting of the best in each a higher unity of understanding is established.

Norman Vincent Peale

Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.

Charles Ives

But in modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason.

Ernest Hemingway

I will ignore all ideas for new works on engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvements I see no further hope.

Sextus Julius Frontinus

As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

Albert Einstein

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

George Santayana

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.

Zhou En Lai

It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones.

Machiavelli

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

The path of repentance, though hard at times, lifts one ever upwards and leads to a perfect forgiveness.

Howard W. Hunter, Speech given in October 1994

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

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

Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless, noisy baggage behind.

Jed Babbin, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense

An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Carl Gustav Jung

There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.

Albert Einstein

Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half - Shut afterwards.

Benjamin Franklin

Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.

Eric Hoffe

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

Phillips Brooks

Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?

Hermocrates of Syracuse

To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves... We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here - - with its gift of energy and heightened awareness - - So we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams, Life 101

There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

Mary Bertone

The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell.

Saint Augustine

The beauty of a statue is in its outward form of a man in his conduct.

Demophilus

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Joan Crawford

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Bernard Mannes Baruch

I cherish the Franco - German cooperation as one of the most important developments in post - war Europe. But I will not accept is as being so sacrosanct that the rest of us shall simply adapt to what is decided between Paris and Berlin.

Uffe Ellemann - Jensen, President, ELDR 1995 - 2000, Foreign Minister 1982 - 1993, Nordic Embassies in Berlin 23 September 2003

When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.

Helen Kelle

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal, Satires

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

Georges Clemenceau

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self - Respect, dignity, integrity, and self - Esteem.

Dr. Laura Schlessinge

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

Robert Ardrey

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

William Congreve

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Aldous Huxley