War Quotes
Sweet is war to those who know it not.Pinda
He is a teenager, after all - A strange agent with holes in his jeans, studs in his ear, a tail down his neck, a cap on his head backward.Ellen Karsh
Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.Author Unknown
The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.Thomas a Kempis
All governments eventually lean further and further towards aristocracy.Frank Herbert, Dune
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
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.William S. Gilbert
To state a theorem and then to show examples is literally to teach backwards.E. Kim Nebeuts
To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.Sun Tzu, The Art of Wa
She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be; Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me; Oh! then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light.Hartley Coleridge
Eternity is very long, especially towards the end.Woody Allen, Just Six Numbers, Martin Rees, page 71
This is the art of courage to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.Victoria Lincoln
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two - Thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.Albert Einstein
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
How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning.Jonathan Swift
She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.Adlai Stevenson
As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.Dorothy Sayers
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.Robert Heinlein
It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.Thomas Brackett Reed
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
Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.Elbert Hubbard
Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.Lyndon B. Johnson
Paranoia is just a kind of awareness, and awareness is just a form of love.Charles Manson
Nothing in the world will take away persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than an unsuccessful man with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.Calvin Coolidge
Beware of the man to whom you have done a good turn.Lebanese Prove
The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.Shakti Gawain
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.George S. Patton
It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who would profit by the old order, only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new.Machiavelli
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 more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.Arthur Koestle
All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.George Bernard Shaw
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.George Sand
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.Ernest Hemingway
A ragged colt may prove a good horse. And so may an untoward slovenly boy prove a decent and useful man.James Kelly
The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.John Foster Dulles
What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt.Kahlil Gibran
In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
