War Quotes

She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.

Adlai Stevenson

War is a matter of vital importance to the State; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied.

Sun Tzu

If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Ronald Reagan

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

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

Hannah Arendt

Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. There is no need to worry about a protracted war because from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time.

Dan Quayle, 10/2/90 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)

If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

Alfred North Whitehead

What is an epigram A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus

To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery - Into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared.

E. H. Chapin

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt.

Kahlil Gibran

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

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

Don Delillo

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

Richard Harris

In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.

Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind

All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and there is no cause to value one above the other.

H. P. Lovecraft

In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last then super - Added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.

Horace

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

Herbert Clark Hoove

Hardware the parts of a computer that can be kicked.

Jeff Pesis

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

French Prove

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Rene Descartes

Monotony is the awful reward of the careful.

A. G. Buckham

Any ordinary man can... surround himself with two thousand books... and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

Augustine Birrell

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired in the final analysis, is a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and not clothed.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

Woodrow Wilson

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

Henry Ward Beeche

Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.

Alvin Toffle

The beauty of a statue is in its outward form; of a man in his conduct.

Demophilus

One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.

John Ernst Steinbeck

If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war - - To Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense!

Osho, My Way: The Way of The White Clouds

The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.

Homer, The Iliad

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.

Demosthenes

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

James Russell Lowell

Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.

The Talmud

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt