War Quotes
Compulsion cannot produce virtue; it can only produce the outward semblance of virtue.Dinesh D? Souza
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
Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.Cicero
Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Shortly before being shot.
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.Jeannette Rankin
When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.Helen Kelle
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
Do not fear to step into the unknown For where there is risk, there is also reward.Lori Hard
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.Jules de Gautie
Penicillin was indeed the product of accidental discovery, but the discovery was made, and the knowledge developed, because certain scientists had definite goals in mind. Chance, Pastuer wrote, favors only the prepared mind. The mind must be prepared not only by scientific training and technological know - How, but also by the awareness of social needs.Saturday Review
Toward the accomplishment of an aim, which in wantonness of atrocity would seem to partake of the insane, he will direct a cool judgement, sagacious and sound. These men are madmen, and of the most dangerous sort.Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailo
It is never too late with us, so long as we are aware of our faults and bear them impatiently.Jacobi
In war, truth is the first casualty.Aeschylus
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
Science... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.Thomas Huxley
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.Arthur Koestle
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.Brian Tracy
We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.Alfred North Whitehead
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
Endless money forms the sinews of war.Cicero, Philippics
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.John Locke
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to proscribe, and honestly to award - These are the true aims and duties of criticism.Simms
When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.The Work of the Chariot
It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.Thomas Brackett Reed
The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.Homer, The Iliad
In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last then super - Added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.Horace
The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.F. Nietzsche, The Wanderer and His Shadow
The idea of all - Out nuclear war is unsettling.Walter Goodman
Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - The wheel, New York, wars and so on - while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - For precisely the same reason.Douglas Noel Adams
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.Miyamoto Musashi, 1645
Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.Robert Anson Heinlein
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.Ambrose Bierce
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)
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
A good front is half the battle in love or war.Kim Hubbard
