War Quotes

We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.

Don Delillo

My views and feelings are in favor of the abolition of war - - And I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.

Thomas Jefferson

For no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

Margaret Fairless Barbe

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

Chuang - Tzu

In all things that involve social pressures, if we want to see change we have to force the envelope outwards.

Gary Lee Phillips

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

Thomas Brackett Reed

A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.

Sir James Glove

Speculations and loans in foreign fields are likely to bring us into war... The war - For - Profit group has counterfeited patriotism.

Charles Lindberg Sr., 1915

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

Ludwig Boerne

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Henry Mille

Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still.

Chinese Prove

Beware of the fury of the patient man.

John Dryden

Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self - Righteous isolation.

John Dewey

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well - Housed, well - warmed, and well - Fed.

Herman Melville

If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it.

Danish prove

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - - Not people to focus your energies on answers - - Not excuses.

William Arthur Ward

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

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth and truth rewarded me.

Simone de Beauvoi

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

If men want to oppose war, it is *statism* that they must oppose.

Ayn Rand, Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal p. 42

Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.

Anonymous

Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.

Frank Herbert, Dune

During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U. S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.

Stephen Ambrose, D - Day, page 577

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

A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things.

Jacques Maritain

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

Rudyard Kipling

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

Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings

You know what I say to people when I hear they? re writing an anti - war book?? I say, why don? t you write an anti - Glacier book instead? What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too.

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughter - House 5

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Joseph Conrad

One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.

Terry Pratchett, Jingo

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

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

Saint Augustine

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

Beware the flatterer: he feeds you with an empty spoon.

Cosino DeGregrio

So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

Victor Hugo

In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities.

Aristotle