War Quotes

The NeXT Computer The hardware makes it a PC, the software makes it a workstation, the unit sales makes it a mainframe.

Anon.

Some say it will bring war to the heavens, but its purpose is to deter war, in the heavens and on earth.

Ronald Reagan

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

James Barrie

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantages of others.

Niccolo Machiavelli

A diplomat... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

Caskie Stinnett, Out of the Red (1960)

No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace - - In peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.

Croesus of Lydia

A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools.

Thucydides

The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world.

A. S. Neill, Summerhill

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

Izaak Walton

It is never too late with us, so long as we are aware of our faults and bear them impatiently.

Jacobi

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - No alternative.

Golda Mei

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied but to be read.

Johnson

I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.

Stanislaw J. Lec, Unkempt Thoughts

We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.

Blaise Pascal

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitalitythe supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.

Lord William Beveridge

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

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear - Sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Vaclav Havel

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

Carl Rowen

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

E. B. White

What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.

Henry David Thoreau

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Charles Kingsley

Peace is the happy, natural state of man; war corruption, his disgrace.

Thomason

To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.

South

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

James Thurbe

The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time.

Milton Friedman

In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. Writers who have neither product utopian trash.

John Berge

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

Henry Kissinge

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.

John Maynard Keynes

A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all - Powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic.

Aldous Huxley

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

Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one - Ideaed individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.

Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

Ginger Rodgers did everything Fred Astair did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.

Faith Whittlesey

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Eric Hoffe

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

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey people. People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest....

C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man