Quotes
Quotes about War
It has been said that a bride's attitude towards her betrothed can be summed up in three words: Aisle, Altar, Hymn.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
To my mind to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterward.
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterward.
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
Whoever heard of a hundred thousand animals rushing together to butcher each other, as men do everywhere [during war]?" -Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)
You can't say civilization isn't advancing, in every war they kill you in a new way.
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
So I accept these awards on behalf of the cake bakers and all of those other women who can do some things quite as important, if not more important, than flying, as well as in the name of women flying today.
A time will come when a politician who has wilfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.
It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion towards our fellow creatures.
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.
Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.
Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
