War Quotes

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People fail forward to success.
Mary Kay Ash
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
Logan Pearsall Smith
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And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Isaiah
All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
Ernest Dimnet
Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill - Judged outlay.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.
Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
But what do we mean by the American Revolution Do we mean the American War The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people.
Geoffrey F. Albert
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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.
Jane Harrison
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
Gilbert Chesterton
I am about to put foward some major ideas they will be heard and pondered. If not all of them please, surely a few will in some sort, then, I shall have contributed to the progress of our age, and shall be content.
Marquis de Sade
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
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
Bokonon
You go to war with the Army you have. They? re not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time.
Donald Rumsfeld, http: //www. dod. gov/transcripts/2004/tr20041208 - Secdef1761. html
The cowards never start and the weak die along the way.
Kit Carson
Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade - Name of the firm.
Oscar Wilde
History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.
George W. Bush
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
Oscar Arias Sanchez
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.
John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty", 1859
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
Henry Mille
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech, April 2, 1957
All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.
Sun - Tzu
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
Plato, The Republic
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality (Harcourt)
He who cannot rest, cannot work he who cannot let go, cannot hold on he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.
Richard Willard Armou
There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences.
Robert Ingersoll
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lessons afterwards.
Vernon Law
The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.
F. Nietzsche, The Wanderer and His Shadow
A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.
Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is the resolute acceptance of death.
Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.
Confucius
Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
Miguel de Cervantes
This is obviously an act of war that has been committed on the United States. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
John McCain
Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves to like themselves.
Bonaro Overstreet
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes... Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
John Dryden