War Quotes

Desiderius erasmus - the most disadvantageous peace is better than the...
Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books; but love from look, toward school with heavy looks.
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Bertrand russell - war does not determine who is right - only who is...
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
Jean - Jacques Rousseau
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
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - - That all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Thomas Hobbes, quoted from "Oxygen3, Panda Software
History is a vast early warning system.
Norman Cousins
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
George S. Patton
April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory out of desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, coveringEarth in a forgetful snow, feedingA little life with dried tubers.
T. S. Eliot
The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.
Shakti Gawain
Charles w. chesnutt - those that set in motion the forces of evil...
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
Colton
Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
Vince Lombardi, Lombardi Winning is the only thing (by Jerry Kramer)
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Dave Parnas
Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
Johann Kaspar Lavate
From this day forward until the end of the world... we in it shall be remembered... we band of brothers.
William Shakespeare, Henry V.
The basic difference between an ordinary person and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary person takes everything as a blessing or a curse.
Carlos Castaneda
The first casualty when war comes is truth.
Hiram Warren Johnson, (1917)
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot - Proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook
The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.
Edmund White
All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
Ernest Dimnet
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
Seneca
I took a speed - Reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
Woody Allen
The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. - From Live Without Principle.
Henry David Thoreau
To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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
Rhythm is the basis of life, not steady forward progress. The forces of creation, destruction, and preservation have a whirling, dynamic interaction.
Kabbalah
Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surrounding and circumstances are of comparatively little account.
Hannah Whitall Smith
Love 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
If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it.
Danish prove
Hardware the parts of a computer that can be kicked.
Jeff Pesis
A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands.
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
The avoidance of taxes is the only pursuit that carries any reward.
John Maynard Keynes
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
It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self - Consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art.
John W. N. Sullivan
No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.
Woodrow Wilson
In war, truth is the first casualty.
Aeschylus
The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be.... Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.
Wilfred Peterson, This Week (Oct. 1, 1961)
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
Vernon Sanders Law