War Quotes

Norman vincent peale - any fact facing us is not as important as our...
WARNING Humor may be hazardous to your illness.
Ellie Katz
Salvador dali - wars have never hurt anybody except the people...
French prove - pray, pray very much but beware of telling god...
But penance need not be paid in suffering... It can be paid in forward motion. Correcting the mistake is a positive move, a nurturing move.
Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
Jonathan Swift
Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Thomas Hobbes, quoted from "Oxygen3, Panda Software
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.
Stanislaus J. Lec
What, then is our duty It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger - Fraught ascent toward salvation.
Nikos Kazantzakis
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
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
Caskie Stinnett
Life is an escalator You can move forward or backward you can not remain still.
Patricia Russell - McCloud
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
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
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.
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
William Congreve
Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books; but love from look, toward school with heavy looks.
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a great distance, not by virtue of any sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.
Bernard of Chartres, 12th Century
People fail forward to success.
Mary Kay Ash
AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.
Susan Sontag
Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.
Felix Adle
The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.
Solomon Short
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.
John Maynard Keynes
Californians invented the concept of life - Style. This alone warrants their doom.
Don DeLillo
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
In war there is no substitute for victory.
General Douglas MacArthu
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green - Eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3
Penicillin was indeed the product of accidental discovery, but the discovery was made, and the knowledge developed, because certain scientists had definite goals in mind. Chance, Pastuer wrote, favors only the prepared mind. The mind must be prepared not only by scientific training and technological know - How, but also by the awareness of social needs.
Saturday Review
To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.
John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty", 1859
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
Confucius
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
Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save.
John Gay
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
Mao Tse - Tung
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.
Carl Sandburg
Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title - Deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.
Benjamin Disraeli
The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
Van Wyck Brooks
There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.
John Dewey
As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.
Albert Einstein