War Quotes

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
Kurt vonnegut, jr. - laughter and tears are both responses to...
The cowards never start and the weak die along the way.
Kit Carson
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.
Robert Anson Heinlein
Dick, frankly you do not have the war plan... which makes me quite happy.
Donald Rumsfeld, 1st briefing after "shock and awe" started
Charles ives - awards are merely the badges of mediocrity....
George eliot - the important work of moving the world forward...
A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903
History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.
George W. Bush
War will cease when men refuse to fight.
F. Hansen
Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
Flavius Vegetius Renatus
In war there is no substitute for victory.
General Douglas MacArthu
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
The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice; rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.
Thomas a Kempis
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
No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of men as the liquor power. Satan could not have fallen on a more potent instrument with which to thrall the world. Alcohol is king.
Eliza Mother Stewart
Tonight - To you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support. On his Vietnam War policy.
Richard Milhous Nixon
Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.
J. B. Priestley
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? ".
No sun - No moon! No morn - No noon - No dawn - No dusk - No proper time of day. No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member - No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!
Thomas Hood (1799 - 1845), in the poem called No!
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Champions are a rare breed. They trust God while others ask for answers. They step forward while others pray for volunteers. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, the hardships.
Unknown
The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - - A terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
George McGovern
Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.
Endicott Peabody
Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The beauty of a statue is in its outward form of a man in his conduct.
Demophilus
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, Oct. 26, 1939
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
Calvin Coolidge
Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. 1954.
Enlai Zhou
We must determine whether we really want freedom - - whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.
Virginia Hanson
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare, Julius Caesa
Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
Queen Elizabeth
In nature there are neither rewards not punishments - - There are consequences.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first then seek to win.
Sun Tzu
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.
Simone de Beauvoi
The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.
Emma Goldman
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