war quotes

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

— Abraham Lincoln

“I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward.”

— Fridtjof Nansen

“Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.”

— Rudyard Kipling

“Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.”

— Donald Trump

“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.”

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

— Albert Einstein

“A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.”

— Winston Churchill

“If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.”

— Winston Churchill

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.”

— Amelia Earhart

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

— Sigmund Freud

“When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.”

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.”

— Winston Churchill

“I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.”

— Che Guevara

“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see. ”

— Winston Churchill

“The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.”

— Thomas Mann

“Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.”

— Victor Hugo

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”

— William Shakespeare

“A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

— Henry Miller

“Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war. ”

— Winston Churchill

“War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard.”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”

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

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

“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. ”

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