War Quotes

Cicero - let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel...
Love is a kind of warfare.
Ovid
My final warning to you is always pay for your own drinks. All the scandals in the world of politics today have their cause in the despicable habit of swallowing free drinks.
Y. Yakigawa
When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
Confucius
Ursula k. leguin - it is good to have an end to journey towards; but...
As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.
Albert Einstein
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, et cetera it is the ego they cannot forgo.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.
Herbert Hoove
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.
Margaret Fulle
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand.
Irish Blessing
In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?
Hermocrates of Syracuse
Trying is the first step towards failure.
Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.
Peggy Noonan
It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.
Thomas Brackett Reed
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
Carl Sagan, Contact
Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.
Woodrow Wilson
Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.
Robert G. Ingersoll
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just an charitable war.
William Shakespeare
Beware the fury of a patient man.
John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
Robert Burton
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein
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)
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
Oprah Winfrey
Sweet is war to those who know it not.
Pinda
Happiness is inward and not outward and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
Henry Van Dyke
Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding and that there is always tomorrow.
Dorothy Thompson
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
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.
Stanislaus J. Lec
The family seems to have two predominant functions to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive each other insane.
Donald G. Smith
Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save.
John Gay
Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defence of peace must be constructed.
Unknown, UNESCO Constitution
The best way to end a war is not to begin it.
Author Unknown
Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Shortly before being shot.
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.
Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon
May there always be work for your hands to do, May your purse always hold a coin or two. May the sun always shine warm on your windowpane, May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain. May the hand of a friend always be near you, And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.
Blessing Irish
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
John Maynard Keynes
Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end.
Woody Allen
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two - Thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.
Albert Einstein