War Quotes
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.George Sand
The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.Alexander Haig
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest.Beatrix Potte
A ragged colt may prove a good horse. And so may an untoward slovenly boy prove a decent and useful man.James Kelly
Beware the fury of a patient man.John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
A leader must be constantly aware of the power of his words.... and his silences.Simon MacDonald
Paranoia is just a kind of awareness, and awareness is just a form of love.Charles Manson
War does not determine who is right - Only who is left.Bertrand Russell
The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.Cicero
Only the winners decide what were war crimes.Garry Wills
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
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.Spanish Prove
The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.Larry Niven
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.Dr. David M. Burns
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.Jules de Gautie
A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.Sir James Glove
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.Prince Otto
My job is to bore you and let the hardness of your seat and the warmth of your robe prepare you for what is to come.William H. McNeill
The fact is that we prepare for war like giants, and for peace like pygmies.Lester Bowles Pearson
A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.Pietro Aretino
What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Know that the pain will pass, and, when it passes, you will be stronger, happier, more sensitive and aware.Mel Colgrove
You progress not through improving what has been done, but reaching toward what has yet to be done.Kahlil Gibran
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.Whitney M. Young Jr.
There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere... There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals....Ben Stein
War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.George Orwell, 1984
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
I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.J. R. R. Tolkien
Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.Elizabeth Harrison
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.Karl Menninge
He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many people would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision.Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, chapter 8
Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.Author Unknown
In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.Ernest Hemingway
I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they happen to strike me.E. B. White
