War Quotes

Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

Unknown

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward for there you have been, there you long to return.

Leonardo DaVinci

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

William Tecumseh Sherman

As we grow oldthe beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tonight - To you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support. On his Vietnam War policy.

Richard Milhous Nixon

This was love at first sight, love everlasting a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected - - In so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.

Thomas Mann

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.

Albert Einstein

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the sense shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Hellen Kelle

A diplomat... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

Caskie Stinnett, Out of the Red (1960)

Just think - - IBM and DEC in the same room - - And we did it. Makes you feel warm inside.

Ken Thompson

There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.

Gamal Abdel Nasse

Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug - Of - war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time can either side be permitted to walk away with the rope.

Pete Holiday

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

Henry Louis Mencken

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just an charitable war.

William Shakespeare

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

James Thurbe

Some say it will bring war to the heavens, but its purpose is to deter war, in the heavens and on earth.

Ronald Reagan

Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.

Whitney M. Young Jr.

There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.

Miyamoto Musashi

It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.

Robert Southey

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

Georges Clemenceau

What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?

William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1 Scene 2

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

James Russell Lowell

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

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.

Lewis Thomas

In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God.

James Agee

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

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

Nature does not loathe virtue it is unaware of its existence.

Franoise Mallet - Joris

Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes... Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.

John Dryden

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

Voltaire

As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Oscar Wilde

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebums and smaller adrenal glands.

H. L. Mencken

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.

John F. Kennedy

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitalitythe supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.

Johann von Goethe

In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.

Hunter S. Thompson

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

Anon.

No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.

General George Patton