War Quotes

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
Bokonon
Aleksandr solzhenitsyn - one should never direct people towards happiness,...
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.
Lewis Thomas
The glow of inspiration warms us it is a holy rapture.
Publius Ovidius NasoOvid
Douglas noel adams - man has always assumed that he was more...
Herodotus - in peace, children inter their parents war...
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
Herbert Spence
Never enter into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many on their getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.
Thomas Jefferson
Cowards die many times before their deaths The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
William Shakespeare
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.
William Shakespeare
The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Either war is obsolete or men are.
R. Buckminster Fuller, New Yorker, Jan. 8, 1966
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.
Henry Ford
The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society.
Robert Francis Kennedy
God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them.
Kahlil Gibran
The first casualty when war comes is truth.
Hiram Warren Johnson, (1917)
Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over - Concern for money, or position, or glory, he said: Some day you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.
Halford E. Luccock
What is an epigram A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Love is a kind of warfare.
Ovid
Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.
John Steinbeck, The Moon is Down
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebums and smaller adrenal glands.
H. L. Mencken
Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.
Otto Von Bismarck
There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
Johann von Goethe
She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.
Adlai Stevenson
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
This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.
George Will
To state a theorem and then to show examples is literally to teach backwards.
E. Kim Nebeuts
If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.
George W. Bush
A brave man dies but once, a coward many times.
Native American Prove
We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized.
Elliot Wayne Eisne
Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surrounding and circumstances are of comparatively little account.
Hannah Whitall Smith
A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Dwight D Eisenhowe
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
Demosthenes
Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward for there you have been, there you long to return.
Leonardo DaVinci
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
George Bernard Shaw
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897)
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.
Eric Hoffe
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
Oprah Winfrey