War Quotes

Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one - Ideaed individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.

Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - - Not people to focus your energies on answers - - Not excuses.

William Arthur Ward

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

Confucius

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

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

Dr. Laura Schlessinge

War is a continuation of politics by other means.

Carl Von Clausewitz, quoted by Gene Hackman in "Crimson Tide".

This is the art of courage to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.

Victoria Lincoln

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

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

Ronald Reagan

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

Arthur Koestle

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

Orson Welles

Let tears flow of their own accord their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

Seneca

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

Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - The wheel, New York, wars and so on - while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - For precisely the same reason.

Douglas Noel Adams

Beware of the man to whom you have done a good turn.

Lebanese Prove

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

William Congreve

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

Peter Ustinov

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike.

Oscar Wilde

Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war.

Dan Quayle, remarks at Arlington National Cemetery

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

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

Cardinal Richelieu

Give yourself something to work toward - - Constantly.

Mary Kay Ash

He is a teenager, after all - A strange agent with holes in his jeans, studs in his ear, a tail down his neck, a cap on his head backward.

Ellen Karsh

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

Robert Lynd

God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Rene Descartes

Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.

Home

If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.

Gurdjieff

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective an awareness that some things are really important, others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

Christopher Morley

A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward.

Sir Winston Churchill, speech in the House of Commons, November 29, 1944

In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities.

Aristotle

History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

Sarah Vowell, Assassination Vacation (p. 208)

The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals.

Rensis Likert

Paranoia is just a kind of awareness, and awareness is just a form of love.

Charles Manson

Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.

Thomas S. Szasz

Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

Garry Wills

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

Mao Tse - Tung