war quotes

“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. ”

“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.”

“The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.”

— Albert Einstein

“The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.”

— Albert Einstein

“Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle. Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.”

— Albert Einstein

“
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.
”

— Robert Anson Heinlein

“
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
”

— Robert Anson Heinlein

“Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.”

— Francis Xavier

“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“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.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.”

— John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

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