War Quotes
Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.W. L. George
There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.Albert Einstein
Wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.John Knowles
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.Ferdinand Foch
In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.Margaret of Valois
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.Edmund Spenser, 1590
War connot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the others advantage.Niccolo Machiavelli
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)
Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.Sir Winston Churchill
Johnson himself turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace and still had a few people left over.Herbert Mitgang
Love seeks one thing only the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.Thomas Merton
Beware the man of one book.Saint Thomas Aquinas
Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.Homer, The Iliad
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is a warm puppy.Charles M. Schultz, Linus in "Peanuts".
Personally I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.Richard Dawkings:, "The Selfish Gene".
Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.John Burroughs
Edwards missed getting Stearns at third base by an eyeball.Jerry Coleman
Cowardly dogs bark loudest.John Webster, The White Devil (1612)
Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.John Andrew Holmes
A leader must be constantly aware of the power of his words.... and his silences.Simon MacDonald
The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell.Saint Augustine
It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones.Machiavelli
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.Joan Crawford
The best soldiers are not warlike.Chinese
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
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.Brian Tracy
Wars teach us not to love our enemies but to hate our allies.W. L. George
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.Eric Hoffe
Beware of over - Great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.Margaret Fulle
In war, you win or lose, live or die - And the difference is just an eyelash.General Douglas MacArthu
If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.Gurdjieff
An apology Bah Disgusting Cowardly Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.Baroness Orczy
Arms are instruments of ill omen.... When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men.... When great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning rites.Lao - Tzu
There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 (Television Series)
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.Aristotle
