War Quotes

Dee w. hock, fast company - never hire or promote in your own image. it is...
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
Confucius
This is spinal tap - david i do not, for one, think that the problem...
Peggy noonan - beware the politically obsessed. they are often...
What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of others.
Francois Fenelon
WARNING Humor may be hazardous to your illness.
Ellie Katz
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lessons afterwards.
Vernon Law
Give a man a fire and keep him warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he will be warm for rest of his life.
Anonymous
I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they happen to strike me.
E. B. White
Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.
Martin Luther King Jr., The Christmas Sermon On Peace in on Dec 24, 1967
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
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
James Thurbe
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
George Bernard Shaw
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
An understanding heart is everything in 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 Jung
This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.
Lyndon B. Johnson
I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family fued.
Helen Kelle
A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
Robert Burton
War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
Hannah Arendt
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just an charitable war.
William Shakespeare
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market - Place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - - Not people to focus your energies on answers - - Not excuses.
William Arthur Ward
We are the people our parents warned us about.
Jimmy Buffett
Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
U Thant
In war, there are no unwounded solders.
Jose Narosky
Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.
Alvin Toffle
The family seems to have two predominant functions to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive each other insane.
Donald G. Smith
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle
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".
We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.
Lyndon B. Johnson
The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.
Solomon Short
People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness of a road leading towards the unknown.
Charles De Gaulle
I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.
Ayn Rand, Anthem, 1946
Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.
Wolcott Gibbs
Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.
The Talmud
Bank on a life, saving towards the certainty of change Ledger all the happiness, pencil in to rearrange Withdraw all the worry Deposit all the faith Compound all the experience and Recognize when the payment is late.
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