Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
War Quotes
Historical MemoryState CrimesWar There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar.
PerceptionProgressWar 'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.
ConflictGender RolesPeacePhilosophyWar War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
AggressionCompetitionRuthlessnessWar Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
ExplorationMotivationNational IdentityThreatWar We didn't go to the moon to explore or because it was in our DNA or because we're Americans. We went because we were at war and we felt a threat.
AggressionImportanceStrategyTacticsWar Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.
CourageHeroismPatriotismSacrificeWar A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.
EvilGodIdeologyReligionWar Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.
CourageHistoryIdentityResponsibilityWar I have a friend that is a WWII buff, and we sat and talked a lot about stuff like the war and the reasons behind it, and you now it's all in the uniform. Once you're in it, it usually does all the work for you.
FutilityPeaceWar I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
HopeMoralityPeaceReligionWar May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!
ContributionHonorPeaceProgressWar Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
AbsurdityConflictInjusticeWar 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?
ConsequenceDestructionSuicideWar Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
ApocalypseCivilizationHumanityNuclearWar I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
CommunicationCourageImaginationMemoryWar I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.
ConflictDefensePatriotismSacrificeWar What the American people want to do is fight a war without getting hurt. You can't do that any more than you can get into a barroom fight without getting hurt... Unless the American people are willing to send their sons out to fight an aggressor, there just isn't going to be any United States.
OutcomePreparationStrategyVictoryWar Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
HypocrisyJusticePolitical PowerWar Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
ConsequenceImportanceStateStrategyWar The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.
ConflictJusticePeaceScienceWar Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
