Quotes
Quotes about War
Youth is the first victim of war - the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him.
I will not play at tug o' war.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable.
Did you know that the worldwide food shortage that threatens up to five hundred million children could be alleviated at the cost of only one day, only ONE day, of modern warfare.
Love is like war; easy to begin but very hard to stop.
The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.
A Dwarfe on a Gyants shoulder sees further of the two. [A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of the two.]
A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well. [Lat., Parvus pumilio, licet in monte constiterit; colossus magnitudinem suam servabit, etiam si steterit in puteo.]
Is it men or women who work the most in slaughterhouses? Is it men or women who are most involved in domestic battering? Is it men or women who commit the most rapes? Is it men or women who vote for the most executions? Is it men or women who promote war, vote for war, kill in war? Is it men or women who as 'talk show hosts' allow no talk? Is it men or women who are more often pedophiles? Is it men or women who torture lab animals more?
61 died that day in the 1st infantry..in Vietnam.. two? rows of body bags.. the fruit of war...drying in the sun.
Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.
The rule of accuracy: When working toward the solution of a problem it always helps if you know the answer.
I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.
The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality
I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
Your scene precariously subsists too long, On French translation and Italian song. Dare to have sense yourselves; assert the stage; Be justly warm'd with your own native rage.
Of every noble action the intent Is to give worth reward, vice punishment.
You can't put equipment on your gravestone. * Ian Stewart's father about the risks he was taking.
And these vicissitudes come best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age, People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth, And wonder Providence is not more sage. Adversity is the first path to truth: He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage, Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, Has won experience which is deem'd so weighty.
Great men rejoice in adversity just as brave soldiers triumph in war. [Lat., Gaudent magni viri rebus adversis non aliter, quam fortes milites bellis.]
Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our economy surging forward.
For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellers there is safety.
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.
