war quotes

“It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.”

“War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”

— Walt Disney

“It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.”

— Andre Gide

“It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.”

— Andre Gide

“There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.”

— Andre Gide

“Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.”

— Andre Gide

“The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.”

— Andre Gide

“Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.”

— Andre Gide

“More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“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

“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

“A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“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

“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

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

— Honore de Balzac