War quotes

“Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.” Amelia Earhart

“There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.” Amelia Earhart

“Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.” Og Mandino

“The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.” Og Mandino

“The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.” Antoine de Saint Exupery

“War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.” Antoine de Saint Exupery

“Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.” Sigmund Freud

“The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.” Sigmund Freud

“Long afterward, many would remember those two days in the first week of October with vividness and anguish.” Arthur Hailey

“Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.” Abraham Lincoln

“To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.” Abraham Lincoln

“With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.” Abraham Lincoln

“I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.” Abraham Lincoln

“It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.” Stephen Hawking

“Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.” Stephen Hawking

“We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.” Stephen Hawking

“I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.” Stephen Hawking

“Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.” Plato

“When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.” Plato

“It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.” Plato

“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.” Aristotle

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” Aristotle

“To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.” Aristotle

“We make war that we may live in peace.” Aristotle

“Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.” Salvador Dali

“Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.” Salvador Dali

“To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.” Honore de Balzac

“A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.” Aldous Huxley

“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.” Aldous Huxley

“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.” Aldous Huxley