War Quotes

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

Chuang - Tzu

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

Leonard Bernstein

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

Salvador Dali

The outcome of the war is in our hands the outcome of words is in the council.

Home

When a miracle happens, even if not to you, it? s nature is to naturally expand. You can almost feel the warmth on your face.

Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 06 - 02 - 04

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

As we grow old? the beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Californians invented the concept of life - Style. This alone warrants their doom.

Don DeLillo

The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. - From Live Without Principle.

Henry David Thoreau

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Margaret Young

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

You go to war with the Army you have. They? re not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time.

Donald Rumsfeld, http: //www. dod. gov/transcripts/2004/tr20041208 - Secdef1761. html

Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.

Charles Ives

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

Hellen Kelle

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

Henry Louis Mencken

The best way to end a war is not to begin it.

Author Unknown

War does not determine who is right - Only who is left.

Bertrand Russell

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this.

Henry David Thoreau

Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

Margaret Fulle

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

Jose Ortega y Gasset

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

Lebanese Prove

A ragged colt may prove a good horse. And so may an untoward slovenly boy prove a decent and useful man.

James Kelly

A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.

Anna Mary Robertson Moses

May there always be work for your hands to do, May your purse always hold a coin or two. May the sun always shine warm on your windowpane, May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain. May the hand of a friend always be near you, And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.

Blessing Irish

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

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

Cicero

Real joy, which comes from loving to do good things without wanting to be repaid, is the reward that lasts forever.

Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine" #155

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare, Julius Caesa

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non - Conformist.

Ayn Rand

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

Carl Sagan, Contact

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace.

Plato

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

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.

Rita Rudne

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

George Orwell, Polemic, May 1946, "Second Thoughts on James Burnham".

What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.

Henry David Thoreau

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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