Quotes
Quotes about War
A boy needs his mother, needs her warmth and love and protection
We don't want just war. We want a just war
The soul in hell is ... a soul at last aware that truth and beauty and goodness, as expressed in what we may call the personality of God, go on existing but quite beyond the hope of that soul's being able to get at them. The condemned soul knows what it wants, but it can't have what it wants. That's hell
It's our expectations that let us down. It begins in the warmth of the womb and the discovery that it's cold outside
I had said good-bye to my warm, loving mother and elected for cold, uncertainty, sin, the horror of the normal and respectable, their claws, latent but acute
Indiscretion in war time can be as lethal as downright treachery
The war has been a means of bringing out men's goodness. Self-sacrifice, courage, love of comrades
The final road is back to the unformed mentality of childhood. Faith and loyalty and duty. Faith cannot move forward to new loyalties and duties
Rule is not directed towards the welfare of the ruled - rule is for power
Modern war disrupts civilian society and makes it easier to rebuild than to reconstitute
Beware of health books, you might die of a misprint.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word. Consider the flea!--incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage. Whether you are asleep or awake he will attack you, caring nothing for the fact that in bulk and strength you are to him as are the massed armies of the earth to a sucking child; he lives both day and night and all days and nights in the very lap of peril and the immediate presence of death, and yet is no more afraid than is the man who walks the streets of a city that was threatened by an earthquake ten centuries before. When we speak of Clive, Nelson, and Putnam as men who didn't know what fear was, we ought always to add the flea--and put him at the head of the procession.
And they say that love is the greatest thing; they persist in SAYING this, the foul liars, and just look at what they do! Look at all the millions of people who repeat every minute that love is the greatest, and charity is the greatest--and see what they are doing all the time. By their works ye shall know them, for dirty liars and cowards, who daren't stand by their own actions, much less by their own words.
Was never true love loved in vain, For truest love is highest gain. No art can make it: it must spring Where elements are fostering. So in heaven's spot and hour Springs the little native flower, Downward root and upward eye, Shapen by the earth and sky.
If he does not fight, it is not because he rejects all fighting as futile, but because he has finished his fights. He has overcome all dissensions between himself and the world and is now at rest... We shall have wars and soldiers so long as the brute in us is untamed.
Heating with wood, you get warm twice: Once chopping it, and once
STRESSED is just DESSERTS spelled backward.
The business of life is to go forward.
program (pro'-gram) [vi] To engage in a pastime similar to banging one's head against a wall but with fewer opportunities for reward.
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.
You wish to see; listen. Hearing is a step toward Vision.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
You wish to see; listen. Hearing is a step toward Vision.
