War Quotes

Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture.

Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Deep End of the Ocean

Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.

Dee W. Hock, Fast Company

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Ernest Hemingway

Look not back in anger, nor forward in fear But around you in awareness.

Ross Hersey

It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.

Pythagoras

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Joe Moore

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

The more you sweat during peace, The less you bleed during war.

Brian Wilson

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

Don Delillo

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss.

Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love".

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.

Vincent Van Gogh

On a good day, I view the job of president as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch - Engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction.

A Bartlett Giamatti

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.

Rita Rudne

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

Peace may cost as much as war, but it is a better buy.

Author Unknown

In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.

Hunter S. Thompson

How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning.

Jonathan Swift

In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. Writers who have neither product utopian trash.

John Berge

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a programme would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.

Neville Chamberlain

What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

Simone Weil, The Need for Roots (1949)

The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves.

Laurens Van der Post

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.

Anatol Rapoport

I have been like a child walking along the shore line. Quickly discarding one sea shell for another of more outward beauty - - Never to know the pearl within!

Robert Anthony, The Man Who Would Never Be King

A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.

Kahlil Gibran

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Economics is war pursued by other means.

Raymond F. DeVoe, Jr.

Give a man a fire and keep him warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he will be warm for rest of his life.

Anonymous

There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.

Miyamoto Musashi

You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

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

In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.

Friedrich Von Schlegel

The only reward of virtue is virtue the only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Virtue has its own reward, but no box office.

Mae West

What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.

Henry David Thoreau

Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need.

Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon

Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill - Judged outlay.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe