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| Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it. Euripides Quotes |
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| I will ignore all ideas for new works on engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvements I see no further hope. Erich Fromm Quotes |
| No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side. Terry Goodkind Quotes |
| A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party: there is no battle unless there be two. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes |
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| What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead. George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory. Albert Pike Quotes |
| Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. Bertrand Russell Quotes |
| Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them. Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes |
| A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning. Richard Milhouse Nixon Quotes |
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| When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing. Dwight David Eisenhower Quotes |
| There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever. Thomas A Edison Quotes |
| I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. John Adams Quotes |
| It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. Voltaire Quotes |
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| I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people. Edmund Burke Quotes |
| An unjust peace is better than a just war. Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes |
| We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace. Jean Kirkpatrick Quotes |
| Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. Dwight David Eisenhower Quotes |
| The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end. T S Eliot Quotes |
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| All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young. Gerald Ford Quotes |
| Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. Carl Sandburg Quotes |
| In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign.... Secondly, a just cause.... Thirdly ... a rightful intention. Saint Thomas Aquinas Quotes |
| A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes |
| War is the science of destruction. John Abbott Quotes |
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| War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man. Napolean Hill Quotes |
| War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man. Agatha Christie Quotes |
| The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. George Orwell Quotes |
| The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council. Homer Quotes |
| Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave o Winston Churchill Quotes |
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| The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving. Ulysses S Grant Quotes |
| You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way. Will Rogers Quotes |
| Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being. Kahlil Gibran Quotes |
| War does not determine who is right - only who is left. Bertrand Russell Quotes |
| And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description. Lord Byron Quotes |
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| Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. G K Chesterton Quotes |
| To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering. Barry Goldwater Quotes |
| I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it. Jack Handey Quotes |
| I hope in the future Americans are thought of as a warlike, vicious people, because I bet a lot of high schools would pick 'Americans' as their mascot. Jack Handey Quotes |
| If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at some guys, throw one of those little baby-type pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think of how crazy war is, and while they're thinking, you can throw a real grenade. Jack Handey Quotes |
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| A good front is half the battle in love or war. Kin Hubbard Quotes |
| A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach; he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able to bite and fight. Martin Luther Quotes |
| You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. Margaret Thatcher Quotes |
| Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything. Harry S Truman Quotes |
| To hold a pen is to be at war. Voltaire Quotes |
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| "A war is like when it rains in New York and everybody crowds into doorways, ya know? And they all get chummy together. Perfect strangers. The only difference, of course, is in a war it's also raining on the other side of the street and the people who are chummy over there are trying to kill the people who are over here who are chums." Author Unknown Quotes |
| "When elephants fight it is the grass that suffers." African Proverb Quotes |
| You've never lived until you've almost died, for those who fought for it, life has a flavor the protected will never know. Anonymous Quotes |
| "We often give our enemies the means to our own destruction." Aesop Quotes |
| The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene. Hannah Arendt Quotes |
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| [John] Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. Isaac Asimov Quotes |
| We’re all scared. You hid in that ditch because you think there’s still hope. The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you’re already dead. And the sooner you accept that, the sooner you’ll be able to function as a soldier’s supposed to function: without mercy, without compassion, without remorse. All war depends upon it.
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| If goods don t cross borders, armies will. Frédéric Bastiat Quotes |
| If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat. Simone de Beauvoir Quotes |
| Projectile - n. the final arbiter in international disputes. Formerly these disputes were resolved by physical contact of the disputants with such arguments as the rudimentary logic of the times would supply - sword, spear, and so forth. With the growth of prudence in military affairs the projectile came more and more into favor, and is now held in high esteem by all. Its capital defect ( in Bierce's day ) has been that it requires personal attendance at the point of launch. Ambrose Bierce Quotes |
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If you have form'd a circle to go into,
Go into it yourself, and see how you would do.
They said this mystery never shall cease:
The priest promotes war, and the soldier peace. William Blake Quotes |
| "For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business." D. W. Brogan Quotes |
| Military weapons are the means used by the Sage to punish violence and cruelty, to give peace to troublous times, to remove difficulties and dangers, and to succor those who are in peril. Every animal with blood in its veins and horns on its head will fight when it is attacked. How much more so will man, who carries in his breast the faculties of love and hatred, joy and anger! When he is pleased, a feeling of affection springs up within him; when angry, his poisoned Sting is brought into play. That is the natural law which governs his being… What then shall be said of those scholars of our time, blind to all great issues, and without any appreciation of relative values, who can only bark out their stale formulas about "virtue" and "civilization," condemning the use of military weapons? They will surely bring our country to impotence and dishonor and the loss of her rightful heritage; or, at the very least, they will bring about invasion and rebellion, sacrifice of territory and general enfeeblement. Yet they obstinately refuse to modify the position they have taken up. The truth is that, just as in the family the teacher must not spare the rod, and punishments cannot be dispensed with in the State, so military chastisement can never be allowed to fall into abeyance in the Empire. All one can say is that this power will be exercised wisely by some, foolishly by others, and that among those who bear arms some will be loyal and others rebellious. Ssu-ma Ch`ien Quotes |
| But out of that silence rose new sounds more appalling still; a strange ventriloquism, of which you could not locate the source, a smothered moan, as if a thousand discords were flowing together into a key-note weird, unearthly, terrible to hear and bear, yet startling with its nearness; the writhing concord broken by cries for help, some begging for a drop of water, some calling on God for pity; and some on friendly hands to finish what the enemy had so horribly begun; some with delirious, dreamy voices murmuring loved names, as if the dearest were bending over them; and underneath, all the time, the deep bass note from closed lips too hopeless, or too heroic to articulate their agony...It seemed best to bestow myself between two dead men among the many left there by earlier assaults, and to draw another crosswise for a pillow out of the trampled, blood-soaked sod, pulling the flap of his coat over my face to fend off the chilling winds, and still more chilling, the deep, many voiced moan that overspread the field. Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Quotes |
| ...On they come, with the old swinging route step and swaying battle flags. In the van, the proud Confederate ensign. Before us in proud humiliation stood the embodiment of manhood; men whom neither toils and sufferings, nor the fact of death could bend from their resolve; standing before us now, thin, worn, and famished, but erect, and with eyes looking level into ours, waking memories that bound us together as no other bond; was not such manhood to be welcomed back into a Union so tested and assured? On our part not a sound of trumpet more, nor roll of drum; not a cheer, nor word, nor whisper or vain-glorying, nor motion of man, but an awed stillness rather, and breath-holding, as if it were the passing of the dead! Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Quotes |
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| That was what, ultimately, war did to you. It was not the physical dangers--the mines at sea, the bombs from the air, the crisp ping of a rifle bullet as you drove over a desert track. No, it was the spiritual danger of learning how much easier life was if you ceased to think. Agatha Christie Quotes |
| "We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills;we shall never surrender." Sir Winston Churchill Quotes |
| The first and most important rule to observe...is to use our entire forces with the utmost energy. The second rule is to concentrate our power as much as possible against that section where the chief blows are to be delivered and to incur disadvantages elsewhere, so that our chances of success may increase at the decisive point. The third rule is never to waste time. Unless important advantages are to be gained from hesitation, it is necessary to set to work at once. By this speed a hundred enemy measures are nipped in the bud, and public opinion is won most rapidly. Finally, the fourth rule is to follow up our successes with the utmost energy. Only pursuit of the beaten enemy gives the fruits of victory. Karl von Clausewitz Quotes |
Say not, the struggle naught availeth,
The labor and the wounds are vain,
The enemy faints not, nor faileth,
And as things have been, they remain.
If hopes are dupes, fears may be liars;
It may be, in yon smoke concealed
Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers
And, but for you, possess the field.
For while the tired waves, vainly breaking,
Seem here no painful inch to gain,
Far back, through creeks and inlets making,
Comes silent, flooding in, the main.
And not by eastern windows only,
When daylight comes, comes in the light;
In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly,
But westward, look, the land is bright. Arthur H. Clough Quotes |
"Five miles meandering with mazy motion,
Through dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank the tumult to a lifeless ocean:
And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war!" Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes |
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"The Volunteer"
"AT dawn," he said, "I bid them all farewell,
To go where bugles call and rifles gleam."
And with the restless thought asleep he fell,
And glided into dream.
A great hot plain from sea to mountain spread, -
Through it a level river slowly drawn:
He moved with a vast crowd, and at its head
Streamed banners like the dawn.
There came a blinding flash, a deafening roar,
And dissonant cries of triumph and dismay;
Blood trickled down the river's reedy shore,
And with the dead he lay.
The morn broke in upon his solemn dream,
And still, with steady pulse and deepening eye,
"Where bugles call," he said, "and rifles gleam,
I follow, though I die!" Elbridge Jefferson Cutler Quotes |
| "Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die." Salvador Dali Quotes |
| Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder.... the working class who fight all the battles, the working class who make the supreme sacrifices, the working class who freely shed their blood and furnish their corpses, have never yet had a voice in either declaring war or making peace. It is the ruling class that invariably does both. They alone declare war and they alone make peace....They are continually talking about their patriotic duty. It is not their but your patriotic duty that they are concerned about. There is a decided difference. Their patriotic duty never takes them to the firing line or chucks them into the trenches. Eugene Debs Quotes |
| The artist must see the war with a unique vision. If he doesn't, then he hasn't added anything to our lives. We can pick up "Time" magazine and get that account of what happened, but what truly happened we must get from the artist. To me that war was a nightmare and it is best expressed in a surreal way. And that is why it is written in that style and in that attitude. War is a form of madness. William Eastlake Quotes |
| He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable loce-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. Albert Einstein Quotes |
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| "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children . . . Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron." Dwight D Eisenhower Quotes |
| "Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!" David G. Farragut Quotes |
"As she came up to the arch Elizabeth saw with a start that it was written on. She went closer. She peered at the stone. There were names on it. Every grain of the surface had been carved with British names; their chiselled capitals rose from the level of her ankles to the height of the great arch itself; on every surface of every column as far as her eyes eyes could see there were names teeming, reeling, over surfaces of yards, of hundreds of yards, over furlongs of stone.
She moved through the space beneath the arch where the man was sweeping. She found the other pillas identically marked, their faces obliterated on all sides by the names that were carved on them.
'Who are these, these ...?; She gestured with her hand.'
'These?' The man with the brush sounded surprised. 'The lost.'
'Men who died in battle?'
'No. The lost, the ones they did not find. The Others are in cemetries.'
'These are just the ... unfound?'
She looked at the vault above her head and then around in panic at the endless writing, as though the surface of the sky had been papered in footnotes.
When she could speak again, she said, 'from the whole war?'
The man shook his head. 'Just these fields.' He gestured with his arm.
Elizabeth went and sat on the steps on the other side of the monument. Beneath her was a formal garden with some rows of white headstones, each with a tended plant or flower at its base, each cleaned and beautiful in the weak winter sunlight.
'Nobody told me.' She ran her fingers with their red-painted nails back through her thick dark hair. 'My God, nobody told me." Sebastian Faulks Quotes |
| "Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being." Kahlil Gibran Quotes |
| War is the great scavenger of thought. It is the sovereign disinfectant, and its red stream of blood is the Condy's Fluid that cleans out the stagnant pools and clotted channels of the intellect. We have awakened from an opium-dream of comfort, of ease, of that miserable poltroonery of the sheltered life. Our wish for indulgence of every sort, our laxity of manners, our wretched sensitiveness to personal inconvenience, these are suddenly lifted before us in their true guise as the specters of national decay; and we have risen from the lethargy of our dilettantism to lay them, before it is too late, by the flashing of the unsheathed sword. Sir Edmund Gosse Quotes |
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| The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war. Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. We got our punishment in the most sanguinary and expensive war of modern times. Ulysses Simpson Grant Quotes |
| The general who is able to persuade his forces that there is victory, even where there seems to be defeat, is one who will inspire them to fight against apparently impossible odds. They will, indeed, never suffer defeat, but will fight on until annihilated by capture or death. The secret of success even in the more pacific engagements of life lies in this principle—to be undaunted in ardour, in spite of failure; to recognise in failure a step towards ultimate success. Let a man be possessed with these, and victory is within his grasp, whether he recognises it or not. H. E. E. Hayes Quotes |
| Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war. Herbert Hoover Quotes |
| In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war. Horace Quotes |
| "I have not yet begun to fight!" John Paul Jones Quotes |
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| Confidence in the principles of an enemy must remain even during war, otherwise a peace could never be concluded; and hostilities would degenerate into a war of extermination since war in fact is but the sad resource employed in a state of nature in defence of rights; force standing there in lieu of juridical tribunals. Neither of the two parties can be accused of injustice, since for that purpose a juridical decision would be necessary. But here the event of a battle (as formerly the judgments of God) determines the justice of either party; since between states there cannot be a war of punishment no subordination existing between them. A war, therefore, which might cause the destruction of both parties at once, together with the annihilation of every right, would permit the conclusion of a perpetual peace only upon the vast burial-ground of the human species. Immanuel Kant Quotes |
| Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer concern the Great Powers alone. For a nuclear disaster, spread by wind and water and fear, could well engulf the great and the small, the rich and the poor, the committed and the uncommitted alike. Mankind must put an end to war--or war will put an end to mankind. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes |
"War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off;
next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off;
then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off;
and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off." Karl Kraus Quotes |
| "It is well that war is so terrible, else we should grow too fond of it." General Robert E. Lee Quotes |
| Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you. Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
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| In war there is no substitute for victory. General Douglas MacArthur Quotes |
| People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil…. The hour of your redemption is here…. Rally to me…. As the lines of battle roll forward to bring you within the zone of operations, rise and strike. Strike at every favourable opportunity. For your homes and hearths, strike! For future generations of your sons and daughters, strike! In the name of your sacred dead, strike! Let no heart be faint. Let every arm be steeled. The guidance of Divine God points the way. Follow in His name to the Holy Grail of righteous victory. General Douglas MacArthur Quotes |
| "Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper or safe judges, whether a war ought to be commenced, continued, or concluded." James Madison Quotes |
| "The Constitution expressly and exclusively vests in the Legislature the power of declaring a state of war. The separation of the power of declaring war from that of conducting it is wisely contrived to exclude the danger of its being declared for the sake of its being conducted." James Madison Quotes |
| "I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in." George McGovern Quotes |
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In glades they meet skull after skull
Where pine cones lay-the rusted gun,
Green shoes full of bones, the mouldering coat
And cuddled up skeleton;
And scores of such. Some start as in dreams,
And comrades lost bemoan;
By The Edge of those wilds Stonewall had charged-
But the year and the Man were gone. Herman Melville Quotes |
| War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice,—is often the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other. John Stuart Mill Quotes |
| War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings. The earthquake means good business for construction workers, and cholera improves the business of physicians, pharmacists, and undertakers; but no one has for that reason yet sought to celebrate earthquakes and cholera as stimulators of the productive forces in the general interest." Ludwig von Mises Quotes |
| What should we do? We have no wish to interrupt the destroyer's work of saving lives... But war is war and the people being picked up out of the water are soldiers bound for the front; soldiers who are to shoot at our German brothers... The question whether we are to perish in despair or defiance, or survive all trails with a live conscience, depends wholly and solely on whether we believe in the forgiveness of sins. This 25th January was the turning point in my life, because it opened my eyes to the utter impossibility of a moral universe. Martin Niemöller Quotes |
| The war, therefore, if we judge it by the standards of previous wars, is merely an imposture. It is like the battles between certain ruminant animals whose horns are set at such an angle that they are incapable of hurting one another. But though it is unreal it is not meaningless. It eats up the surplus of consumable goods, and it helps to preserve the special mental atmosphere that a hierarchical society needs. War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair. In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they might recognize their common interest and therefore limit the destructiveness of war, did fight against one another, and the victor always plundered the vanquished. In our own day they are not fighting against one another at all. The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact. The very word 'war', therefore, has become misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased to exist. The peculiar pressure that it exerted on human beings between the Neolithic Age and the early twentieth century has disappeared and been replaced by something quite different. The effect would be much the same if the three super-states, instead of fighting one another, should agree to live in perpetual peace, each inviolate within its own boundaries. For in that case each would still be a self-contained universe, freed for ever from the sobering influence of external danger. A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war. This — although the vast majority of Party members understand it only in a shallower sense — is the inner meaning of the Party slogan: War is Peace. George Orwell Quotes |
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It seemed that out of battle I escaped
Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped
Through granites which titanic wars had groined.
Yet also there encumbered sleepers groaned,
Too fast in thought or death to be bestirred.
Then, as I probed them, one sprang up, and stared
With piteous recognition in fixed eyes,
Lifting distressful hands, as if to bless.
And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, -
By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.
With a thousand pains that vision's face was grained;
Yet no blood reached there from the upper ground,
And no guns thumped, or down the flues made moan.
'Strange friend,' I said, 'here is no cause to mourn.'
'None,' said that other, 'save the undone years,
The hopelessness. Whatever hope is yours,
Was my life also; I went hunting wild
After the wildest beauty in the world,
Which lies not calm in eyes, or braided hair,
But mocks the steady running of the hour,
And if it grieves, grieves richlier than here.
For by my glee might many men have laughed,
And of my weeping something had been left,
Which must die now. I mean the truth untold,
The pity of war, the pity war distilled. Wilfred Owen Quotes |
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
- Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells;
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs, -
The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling for them from sad shires.
What candles may be held to speed them all?
Not in The hands of boys but in their eyes
Shall shine The holy glimmers of goodbyes.
The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;
Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds. Wilfred Owen Quotes |
| It is certain that the two World Wars in which I have participated would not have occurred had we been prepared. It is my belief that adequate preparation on our part would have prevented or materially shortened all our other wars beginning with that of 1812. Yet, after each of our wars, there has always been a great hue and cry to the effect that there will be no more wars, that disarmament is the sure road to health, happiness, and peace; and that by removing the fire department, we will remove fires. These ideas spring from wishful thinking and from the erroneous belief that wars result from logical processes. There is no logic in wars. They are produced by madmen. No man can say when future madmen will reappear. I do not say that there will be no more wars; I devoutly hope that there will not, but I do say that the chances of avoiding future wars will be greatly enhanced if we are ready. General George Patton Quotes |
This war burns our houses. It sows dead executed in open squares and roads. It chases us like hares from refuge to refuge. It will end up by forcing us to fight, to wring out an active approval. And the day will come when nobody will be outside the war, neither cowards, nor the sad, nor the lonely...
But I saw the unknown dead, dead members of the Italian Social Republic. If a stranger, an enemy becomes such a thing when he dies, if we stop dead fearing to step over him, it means that even the defeated enemy is someone who after spilling blood must be pacified. This blood must be given a voice and those who spilled it must be justified. It is humiliating to look at certain dead. They are not others’ concern anymore... We feel humiliated because we understand that we could be that dead person: there would be no difference and if we are alive, we owe it to that blood smeared body. This is why every war is a civil war: every fallen person resembles those who remain and demands a reason from them. Cesare Pavese Quotes |
| "Up men to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia." Gen. George Pickett Quotes |
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"Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes."
N.B.: A lesser-known version of this quotation was supposedly said by Frederick the Great at Prague in 1757: "By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes." Colonel William Prescott Quotes |
| History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. To keep the peace, we and our allies must be strong enough to convince any potential aggressor that war could bring no benefit, only disaster. Ronald Reagan Quotes |
| We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war. Erich Maria Remarque Quotes |
| I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another. Erich Maria Remarque Quotes |
| "Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan." Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes |
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I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of line—the survivors of a regiment of 1,000 that went forward 48 hours before. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.
I have passed unnumbered hours, I shall pass unnumbered hours thinking and planning how war may be kept from this nation. Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes |
| "War does not determine who is right - only who is left." Bertrand Russell Quotes |
| With civilized men..., it is, I think, chiefly love of excitement which makes the populace applaud when war breaks out; the emotion is exactly the same as at a football match, although the results are sometimes somewhat more serious. Bertrand Russell Quotes |
| To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. George Santayana Quotes |
| It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only criminals sentenced by the law, but the other kills honest men who like himself bathe in innocent blood at the bidding of some superior. George Santayana Quotes |
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| A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers. All you have to do is hold your first dying soldier in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that his life is flowing out and you can't do anything about it. Then you understand the horror of war. Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still, there are things worth fighting for. Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes |
| "It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell." Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes |
| If the Lord should once more give us sunshine and I do not give you enough fighting, I will never ask you to come out again. General John Stark Quotes |
| "But had daylight lasted one hour longer," Stark reported later, "we should have taken the whole body of them." General John Stark Quotes |
17. Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory:
(1) He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.
(2) He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.
(3) He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks.
(4) He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.
(5) He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.
18. Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself you will succumb in every battle.
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"If I wish to engage, then the enemy, for all his high ramparts and deep moat, cannot avoid engagement; I attack that which he is obliged to rescue.
“If I do not wish to engage, I can hold my ground with nothing more than a line drawn around it. The enemy cannot engage me in combat; I distract him in a different direction.
“His form is visible, but I am formless; I am concentrated, he is divided…
“… By reinforcing his vanguard, he weakens his rear; by reinforcing his rear, he weakens his vanguard; by reinforcing his right flank, he weakens his left; by reinforcing his left, he weakens his right; by reinforcing every part, he weakens every part." Sun-Tzu Quotes |
| There are two things that a democratic people will always find very difficult, to begin a war and to end it. Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes |
| We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped. Harriet Tubman Quotes |
| According to other writers, it is the women who last longest in sieges, the young men who soonest fall into that deadly lethargy that precedes actual death. But the account is accurate enough: that is what a siege is like. Moreover, that is what it is meant to be like. When a city is encircled and deprived of food, it is not the expectation of the attackers that the garrison will hold out until individual soldiers... drop dead in the streets. The death of ordinary inhabitants of the city is expected to force the hand of the civilian or military leadership. The goal is surrender; the means is not the defeat of the enemy army, but the fearful spectacle of the civilian dead. Michael Walzer Quotes |
| War is fear cloaked in courage. William Westmoreland Quotes |
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| "The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars." William Westmoreland Quotes |
| The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. That is the current that has whirled the young airman up into the sky and keeps him circulating there among the clouds. Down here, with a roof to cover us and a gasmask handy, it is our business to puncture gasbags and discover the seeds of truth. Virginia Woolf Quotes |
| "Life was a colorful painful pageant to her, in which right and wrong were wobbly yardsticks. Values and morals varied with time and place. Sweeping righteous views, like Victor Henry's Christian morality and Rule's militant socialism, tended to cause much hell and to cramp what little happiness there was to be had. So she thought." Herman Wouk Quotes |
| "I have found that the Way of the samurai is death. This means that when you are compelled to choose between life and death, you must quickly choose death." Yamamoto Tsunetomo Quotes |
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| "Wars--and what is war except crime on a mass scale?--destroy rather than produce. The vandal that destroys a window causes not only the owner to bear the costs of replacing it, but costs those whom he planned on using that money to buy from. The same goes for wars. The warlords--of war and peace--destroyed so much, not only what existed, but all those new things that could have existed, if only individuals were left in peace." Adam Young Quotes |
| You can't say civilization don't advance -- for in every war, they kill you in a new way. Will Rogers Quotes |
| If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. Thomas Paine Quotes |
| The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. (1918) Theodore Roosevelt Quotes |
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| It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it. Robert E. Lee Quotes |
| History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. Ronald Reagan Quotes |
| A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war. Simone Weil Quotes |
| Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue; a state of mind; a disposition for benevolence; confidence; and justice. Spinoza Quotes |
| Either war is obsolete or men are. R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes |
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| There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders. Ralph Bunche Quotes |
| The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! March 23, 1775 Patrick Henry Quotes |
| Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Omar N. Bradley Quotes |
| War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature, and has no chance of being free unless made or kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. John Stuart Mill Quotes |
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| Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer be of concern to great powers alone. For a nuclear disaster, spread by winds and waters and fear, could well engulf the great and the small, the rich and the poor, the committed and the uncommitted alike. Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind. John F. Kennedy Quotes |
| It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war. John F. Kennedy Quotes |
| The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men. John F. Kennedy Quotes |
| I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. John Adams Quotes |
| We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage. James Russell Lowell Quotes |
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| You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. Jeanette Rankin Quotes |
| During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism. Howard Thurman Quotes |
| Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated. Howard Nemerov Quotes |
| I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it. I hate war, and never again will I sanction or support another. Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes |
| Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country. quote verified at snopes.com Hermann Goering Quotes |
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| A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war. Now this war is not at all a nice war.1943 Gertrude Stein Quotes |
| War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men. Georges Clemenceau Quotes |
| I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward. George Washington Quotes |
| There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy. George Washington Quotes |
| I've been to war. I've raised twins. If I had a choice, I'd rather go to war. George W. Bush Quotes |
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| Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous. George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| No, I know all the war rhetoric, but it's all aimed at achieving peace. George W. Bush Quotes |
| I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes. General Douglas MacArthur Quotes |
| When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes |
| I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Quotes |
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| Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.April 16, 1953 Dwight Eisenhower Quotes |
| They have not wanted Peace at all; they have wanted to be spared war -- as though the absence of war was the same as peace. Dorothy Thompson Quotes |
| Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. [1953] Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes |
| The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. David Friedman Quotes |
| In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons. Croesus Quotes |
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| There never was a good war or a bad peace. Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
| Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him? Blaise Pascal Quotes |
| There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature. Barbara Kingsolver Quotes |
| "One of the main reasons that it is so easy to march men off to war," says Ernest Becker, is that "each of them feels sorry for the man next to him who will die." Annie Dillard Quotes |
| We make war that we may live in peace. Aristotle Quotes |
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| Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up. Barbara Kingsolver Quotes |
| Till the war-drum throbb`d no longer, and the battle-flags were furl`d; In the parliament of man; the Federation of the world. Alfred Tennyson Quotes |
| [I]n such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners. Albert Camus Quotes |
| It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers. Author Unknown Quotes |
| Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. John F. Kennedy, 1961 Quotes |
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| I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, "Mother, what was war?" Eve Merriam Quotes |
| The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| "There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes. James Morrow Quotes |
| Sometimes I think it should be a rule of war that you have to see somebody up close and get to know him before you can shoot him. M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter Quotes |
| All the arms we need are for hugging. Author Unknown Quotes |
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| A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. Napoleon Quotes |
| A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. German Proverb Quotes |
| The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. Omar Bradley Quotes |
| Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech, American S Quotes |
| The most persistent sound which reverberates through men's history is the beating of war drums. Arthur Koestler Quotes |
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| What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world. Robert E. Lee, letter to his wife, 1864 Quotes |
| Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals. Colman McCarthy Quotes |
| Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. Abraham Flexner Quotes |
| Draft beer, not people. Attributed to Bob Dylan Quotes |
| The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without. Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes |
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| War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. John F. Kennedy Quotes |
In Flanders fields the poppies grow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place, and in the sky,
The larks, still bravely singing, fly,
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
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| What this planet needs is more mistletoe and less missile-talk. Author Unknown Quotes |
| Join the Army, see the world, meet interesting people - and kill them. Pacifist Badge, 1978 Quotes |
| Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ernest Hemingway Quotes |
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| War makes thieves and peace hangs them. George Herbert Quotes |
| You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon. David Lloyd George Quotes |
| Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. Carl Sandburg Quotes |
| In war, there are no unwounded soldiers. José Narosky Quotes |
| If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. Pentagon official explaining why the U.S Quotes |
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| I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy.... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago. Sir George Porter, quoted in Quotes |
| War would end if the dead could return. Stanley Baldwin Quotes |
| War! that mad game the world so loves to play. Jonathan Swift Quotes |
| We need a new law that owners of SUVs are automatically in the military reserve. Then they can go get their own goddamn oil. Jello Biafra, quoted in Quotes |
| If it's natural to kill, why do men have to go into training to learn how? Joan Baez, "What Would You Do If.... Quotes |
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| I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. [We'd] find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together. Ronald Reagan, 1985 Quotes |
| The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst. Henry Fosdick Quotes |
| All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration? Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
| In war, truth is the first casualty. Aeschylus Quotes |
| Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself. Francis Meehan Quotes |
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| Only the dead have seen the end of war. Plato Quotes |
| No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war. Ambrose Bierce Quotes |
| War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man. Napoleon Hill Quotes |
| We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace. Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Quotes |
| Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out... and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel.... And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for "the universal brotherhood of man" - with his mouth. Mark Twain Quotes |
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| Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. Bertrand Russell, attributed Quotes |
| It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be U.S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the Senate. George McGovern Quotes |
| I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. George McGovern Quotes |
| When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die. Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes |
| The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. Albert Einstein, "Atomic War or Peac Quotes |
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| You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| We kill because we are afraid of our own shadow, afraid that if we used a little common sense we'd have to admit that our glorious principles were wrong. Henry Miller Quotes |
| The refuge of the morally, intellectually, artistically and economically bankrupt is war. Martin H. Fischer Quotes |
| They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. Ernest Hemingway Quotes |
| The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery. Clarence Darrow Quotes |
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| Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world? Norman Cousins Quotes |
| I think war might be God's way of teaching us geography. Paul Rodriguez Quotes |
| The era of true peace on earth will not come as long as a tremendous percentage of your taxes goes to educate men in the trades of slaughter. Reginald Wright Kauffman Quotes |
| Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the past two world-wide wars would indicate? Gregory Clark Quotes |
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The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts. Omar Bradley Quotes |
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| War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. Thomas Mann Quotes |
| We have failed to grasp the fact that mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide. Havelock Ellis Quotes |
| Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag; which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen? Thomas Carlyle, "Sartor Resartus" Quotes |
| The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution. John F. Kennedy Quotes |
| War is the only game in which it doesn't pay to have the home-court advantage. Dick Motta Quotes |
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| If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "no" to war. For one does not create a human society on mounds of corpses. Louis Lecoin Quotes |
| War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered. Thomas de Quincey Quotes |
| No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time. Henry Kissinger Quotes |
| Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood. Gandhi Quotes |
| I would like it if men had to partake in the same hormonal cycles to which we're subjected monthly. Maybe that's why men declare war - because they have a need to bleed on a regular basis. Brett Butler Quotes |
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| It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passions, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace. André Gide Quotes |
| Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner. Thomas Carlyle Quotes |
| The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars. William Westmoreland Quotes |
| I have never advocated war except as a means of peace. Ulysses S. Grant Quotes |
| We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes |
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In the name of peace
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| Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity. Author Unknown Quotes |
| What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. Aldous Huxley Quotes |
| Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder. Percy Bysshe Shelley, "A Declaration Quotes |
| Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals. Joseph Heller Quotes |
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| To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man. Michael Servetus Quotes |
| A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been. Victor Hugo Quotes |
| Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. Otto Von Bismark Quotes |
| The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people. Gerome Gragni and James Rado, 1967 Quotes |
| War hath no fury like a noncombatant. Charles Edward Montague Quotes |
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| What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat. Simone Weil Quotes |
| War is never a solution; it is an aggravation. Benjamin Disraeli Quotes |
| The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war. George Meredith Quotes |
| Dress it as we may, feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it, what is war, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform? Douglas Jerrold Quotes |
| If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons. Pope John Paul II Quotes |
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| Law never made men a whit more just; and by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice. A common and natural result of an undue respect for law is that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, and all marching in admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay, against their common sense and consciences, which makes it very steep marching indeed, and produces a palpitation of the heart. They have no doubt that it is a damnable business in which they are concerned; they are all peaceably inclined. Now, what are they? Men at all? or small movable forts and magazines, at the service of some unscrupulous man in power? The mass of men serve the State thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.... In most cases there is no free exercise whatever of the judgment or of the moral sense; but they put themselves on a level with wood and earth and stones; and wooden men can perhaps be manufactured that will serve the purpose as well. Henry David Thoreau Quotes |
| Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. Herbert Hoover Quotes |
| A day of battle is a day of harvest for the devil. William Hooke Quotes |
| There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. Havelock Ellis Quotes |
| All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. François Fénelon Quotes |
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| War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future. Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla) Quotes |
| Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life. Alice Thomas Ellis Quotes |
| Will... the threat of common extermination continue?... Must children receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance? Pope John Paul II, speech at the UN, 197 Quotes |
| War is nothing less than a temporary repeal of the principles of virtue. It is a system out of which almost all the virtues are excluded, and in which nearly all the vices are included. Robert Hall Quotes |
| Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none. Stuart Chase Quotes |
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| Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history. Pieter Geyl Quotes |
| Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong? Holly Near Quotes |
| The pioneers of a warless world are the [youth] who refuse military service. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| O Lord our God, help us tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it. Mark Twain Quotes |
| The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. Joe Stalin, comment to Churchill at Pots Quotes |
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| Men like war: they do not hold much sway over birth, so they make up for it with death. Unlike women, men menstruate by shedding other people's blood. Lucy Ellman Quotes |
| War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. John Stewart Mill Quotes |
| The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it. Louis Simpson Quotes |
| The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his. George S. Patton Quotes |
| The expendability factor has increased by being transferred from the specialised, scarce and expensively trained military personnel to the amorphous civilian population. American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century's major wars. In the First World War 5 per cent of those killed were civilians, in the Second World War 48 per cent, while in a Third World War 90-95 per cent would be civilians. Colin Ward Quotes |
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| You can't say civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way. Will Rogers Quotes |
| Organized slaughter, we realize, does not settle a dispute; it merely silences an argument. James Frederick Green Quotes |
| I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means of coercing injustice more gratifying to our nature than a waste of the blood of thousands and of the labor of millions of our fellow creatures? Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals. Charles Evans Hughes Quotes |
| War is a game which were their subjects wise, kings would not play at. William Cowper Quotes |
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Borders are scratched across the hearts of men
By strangers with a calm, judicial pen,
And when the borders bleed we watch with dread
The lines of ink across the map turn red.
Marya Mannes Quotes |
| If we don't end war, war will end us. H.G. Wells Quotes |
| War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes |
| They should pick a dry year to fight the war. Better yet, civilize the moronic races and have no wars at all. Clair J. Clark, letter to wife, March 19 Quotes |
| I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war. Georges Clemenceau Quotes |
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| As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of exalted characters. Edward Gibbon Quotes |
| There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature. Barbara Kingsolver Quotes |
| War! When I but think of this word, I feel bewildered, as though they were speaking to me of sorcery, of the Inquisition, of a distant, finished, abominable, monstrous, unnatural thing. When they speak to us of cannibals, we smile proudly, as we proclaim our superiority to these savages. Who are the real savages? Those who struggle in order to eat those whom they vanquish, or those who struggle merely to kill? Guy de Maupassant Quotes |
| The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America too. It fell on no city, no munition plants, no docks. It erased no church, vaporized no public buildings, reduced no man to his atomic elements. But it fell, it fell. Hermann Hagedorn, "The Bomb That Fel Quotes |
| I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it. I hate war, and never again will I sanction or support another. Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes |
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| It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash. Fred Woodworth Quotes |
| In an incredible perversion of justice, former soldiers who sprayed festeringly poisonous chemicals on Vietnam, and now find today that they themselves have been damaged by them, appeal to the people for sympathy and charity. The effects of the defoliant "Agent Orange" are discussed at length, but not one single newspaper article or hearing that we are aware of has even mentioned the effects of the people who still live in those regions of Vietnam. It's as outlandish as if Nazis who gassed Jews were now to come forward and whine that the poisons they utilized had finally made them sick. The staggering monstrousness goes unlaughed at and even unnoticed, as in a Kafka novel. Fred Woodworth Quotes |
| A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war. Herbert V. Prochnow Quotes |
| Studies by Medical Corps psychiatrists of combat fatigue cases... found that fear of killing, rather than fear of being killed, was the most common cause of battle failure, and that fear of failure ran a strong second. S.L.A. Marshall Quotes |
| 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. Abert Quotes |
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| 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. Abert Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
| It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. Alfred Adler Quotes |
| Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit. Felix Adler Quotes |
| Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. Aesop Quotes |
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| Only cowards insult dying majesty. Aesop Quotes |
| Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. Aesop Quotes |
| In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again: and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life; toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God. James Agee Quotes |
| Life is not advancement. It is growth. It does not move upward, but expands outward, in all directions. Russell G. Alexander Quotes |
| I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. Woody Allen Quotes |
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| When there is no peril in the fight, there is no glory in the triumph. A. Alvarez Quotes |
| What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Quotes |
| Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Quotes |
| As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Quotes |
| Beware of the man of one book. Saint Thomas Aquinas Quotes |
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| 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 Quotes |
| Trust each other again and again. When the trust level gets high enough, people transcend apparent limits, discovering new and awesome abilities for which they were previously unaware. David Armistead Quotes |
| He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward. Richard Willard Armour Quotes |
| ...what thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most. Matthew Arnold Quotes |
| Give yourself something to work toward--constantly. Mary Kay Ash Quotes |
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| There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people. Jan Ashford Quotes |
| Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. Isaac Asimov Quotes |
| Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. Saint Augustine Quotes |
| The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell. Saint Augustine Quotes |
| A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark. Marcus Aelius Aurelius Quotes |
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| Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men … their wars, their concentration camps, their justice. Marcel Ayme Quotes |
| Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world-the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism. Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe Quotes |
| You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought. Lauren Bacall Quotes |
| Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh. Sir Francis Bacon Quotes |
| Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men...the master of superstition is the people; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order. Sir Francis Bacon Quotes |
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| The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. Walter Bagehot Quotes |
| So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy. Roger Nash Baldwin Quotes |
| To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward. Margaret Fairless Barber Quotes |
| You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by. Sir James Matthew Barrie Quotes |
| What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. Dave Barry Quotes |
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| Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want. Bernard Mannes Baruch Quotes |
| So, rather than appear foolish afterward, I renounce seeming clever now. William of Baskerville Quotes |
| I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. Simone de Beauvoir Quotes |
| A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. Leonard Bernstein Quotes |
| There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts. Mary Bertone Quotes |
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| Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle. Annie Besant Quotes |
| If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia. Hans Albrecht Bethe Quotes |
| Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help lift him up. Ecclesiastes 4:910 Bible Quotes |
| The race is not [always] to the Swift, nor the battle to the strong. Ecclesiastes 9:11 Bible Quotes |
| Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Hebrews 13:2 Bible Quotes |
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| People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. Prince Otto Quotes |
| Marriage means expectations and expectations mean conflict. Paxton Blair Quotes |
| There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power. Angel Blessing Quotes |
| The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are. Ludwig Boerne Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
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| Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh. Robert Oxton Bolt Quotes |
| We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle. Erma Louise Bombeck Quotes |
| ... it's simply wrong to always order [kids] to stop that fighting. There are times when one child is simply defending his rights and damned well should be fighting. Erma Louise Bombeck Quotes |
| A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. Napolean Bonaparte Quotes |
| The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed. Nelson Boswell Quotes |
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| When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. Phyllis Bottome Quotes |
| Whatever happened to that old-fashioned Grandpa? If he still survives, he must be hiding in the small towns. You sure don't see him very often in the big city. The big-city Grandpa has gone big time. ... He is the life of every party, and out to prove he is just as young as he ever was. A grandchild who makes the mistake of calling him 'Gramps' is lucky if he isn't rewarded by a quick kick in the stomach. Hal Quotes |
| All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success. Dorthea Bragg Quotes |
| In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action. Louis Dembitz Brandeis Quotes |
| War is like love; it always finds a way. Bertolt Brecht Quotes |
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| Life-the way it really is-is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse. Joseph Brodsky Quotes |
| I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. Charlotte Bronte Quotes |
| I don't fly any awards at the house. Any award you get is usually for something you've done in the past. And I like to keep looking forward. Garth Brooks Quotes |
| The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses. Van Wyck Brooks Quotes |
| Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given--when Christmas Day comes there is sti |
