War Quotes
We make war that we may live in peace.Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.Colton
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
If men want to oppose war, it is *statism* that they must oppose.Ayn Rand, Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal p. 42
I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.William Westmoreland
I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved - - The Great Society - - In order to fight that bitch of a war in Vietnam then I would lose everything at home. My hopes my dreams.Lyndon B. Johnson
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.Antoine De Saint - Exupery
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
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
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
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss.Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love".
You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide - Sounding Zeus puts a good mind.Homer, The Iliad
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - Or are they holding you back.Clement Stone
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.James Russell Lowell
Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless, noisy baggage behind.Jed Babbin, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense
We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.Don Delillo
When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.Confucius
Give yourself something to work toward - - Constantly.Mary Kay Ash
As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to... the American people Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. On the Vietnam Wa.Richard Milhous Nixon
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.Mahatma Gandhi
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
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old - Fashioned.George Santayana, Winds of Doctrine (1913) ch. 2
How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.Spanish Prove
In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind
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
Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.Martin Luther King Jr., The Christmas Sermon On Peace in on Dec 24, 1967
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.Mark Twain, "Is Shakespeare Dead? ".
The skull lay tilted in such a manner that it stared, sightless, up at me as though I, too, were already caught a few feet above him in the strata and, in my turn, were staring upward at that strip of sky which the ages were carrying farther away from me.Loren
Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.Lyndon B. Johnson
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lessons afterwards.Vernon Law
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.Oscar Wilde
If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.George W. Bush
If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it.Danish prove
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
The antiwar movement is a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the country like a prairie fire.Richard Milhous Nixon
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
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.Desiderius Erasmus
