War Quotes

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

Mark Caine

Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.

Theodore Ledyard Cuyle

When we truly care for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people. The more alert and sensitive we are to our own needs, the more loving and generaous we can be toward others.

Eda LeShan

Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Compulsion cannot produce virtue; it can only produce the outward semblance of virtue.

Dinesh D? Souza

We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.

William Shakespeare

We Americans know - Although others appear to forget - The risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war. On ordering retaliatory action against North Vietnam.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The purpose of all higher education is to make men aware of what was and what is to incite them to probe into what may be. It seeks to teach them to understand, to evaluate, to communicate.

Otto Kleppne

The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Umberto Eco

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

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

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

Confucius

If we fight a war and win it with H - Bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.

Hans A. Bethe

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

Robert Bolt

The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.

Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation - First Speake

Beauty is handed out as undemocratically as inherited peerages, and beautiful people have done nothing to deserve their astonishing reward.

John Mortimer, The Observer (1999)

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

Ken Thompson

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

Edwards missed getting Stearns at third base by an eyeball.

Jerry Coleman

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

W. L. George

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

War can only be abolished by war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Mao Tse - Tung

The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

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

Cardinal Richelieu

Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.

William S. Gilbert

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - - That all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday... The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.

Ayn Rand

Beware of the fury of the patient man.

John Dryden

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

Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.

Faith Whittlesey

A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all - Powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic.

Aldous Huxley

Pray, pray very much but beware of telling God what you want.

French Prove

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

Confucius

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Johann von Goethe