War Quotes

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

Jane Austen, Emma

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology.

Rebecca West

Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.

Richard Harris

In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.

Albert Camus

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.

Mahatma Gandhi

Think to yourself that every day is your last the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.

Horace

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.

Edith Cavell, last words, before her execution by the Germans, 12 October 1915.

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.

Homer, The Iliad

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

Elbert Hubbard

The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.

Ludwig Boerne

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

George Eliot

When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them.

Chief Seattle

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

Henry Kissinge

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Ambrose Bierce

I know you have come to kill me. Shoot, coward! You are only going to kill a man.

Che Guevara, His last words, spoken to his assassin.

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

Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.

Elizabeth Harrison

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

Ted W. Engstrom

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

W. L. George

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well - Dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to... the American people Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. On the Vietnam Wa.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers.

Leonard Brandwein

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

George Bernard Shaw

Hate is not a feeling toward another, but a feeling of defeat by another.

Kristen Ashley Roth

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey people. People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest....

C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Charles Kingsley

Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Saint Augustine

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

Edmund Spenser, 1590

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

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

James Barrie

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

William S. Gilbert

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

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.

John Burroughs

We have achieved the most amazing things, a few million people opening up half a continent. But we have not yet found a Canadian soul except in time of war. On lack of national identity.

Lester Bowles Pearson

Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is the resolute acceptance of death.

Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings

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

French Prove

Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.

Margaret Mead