War Quotes - Page 36

• Sometimes you are forced to defend your beliefs. Sometimes you are forced to look at relationships that aren't positive anymore. There are times when I have had to make peace with the fact that I am at war. And sometimes you have to fight those who do not want love to conquer all.

  Tori Amos

  Love, Fighting, Looks

  Tori Amos, Ann Powers (2008). “Tori Amos: Piece by Piece”, p.14, Crown Archetype

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• Brutus, I do observe you now of late: I have not from your eyes that gentleness And show of love as I was wont to have: You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand Over your friend that loves you. Poor Brutus, with himself at war, Forgets the shows of love to other men.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Eye, Men

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 32

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• So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like young Lochinvar.

  Walter Scott

  Love, Faith, Knights

  'Marmion' (1808) canto 5, st. 12 ('Lochinvar' st. 1)

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• For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of Lochinvar.

  Walter Scott

  Love, Fairs

  'Marmion' (1808) canto 5, st. 12 ('Lochinvar' st. 2)

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• Enemies publish themselves. They declare war. The friend never declares his love.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Enemy, Publish

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.11, Heron Dance Press

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• If such love obtained in the world today as the Lord intended that it should, love of God and love of fellow men, there would be no wars, contentions, and strife among the children of men. And that there is such, is due to an indifference by men to heed the admonitions and teachings of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

  George F. Richards

  Love, Jesus, Children

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• Yes, Marines are down in jungle land and they did kill a man in a war, and a great many people did not know anything about it.

  Earl Hancock Ellis

  Marine, Men, Land

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• People were very affected by the war. But it didn't mean you stopped painting unless you were called into the Army; then you just couldn't paint. But otherwise one continued.

  Lee Krasner

  Mean, Army, People

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• Be willing to lose a battle in order to win the war.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Work, Winning, Order

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2012). “Life's Little Instruction Book: Simple Wisdom and a Little Humor for Living a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.543, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Be the light in the dark, be the calm in the storm and be at peace while at war.

  Michael Dolan

  Attitude, Character, Dark

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• Which not peace for the man who is forced to go to war, for he will find his peace. But wish peace for the man who goes to war willingly, for he will never find his peace.

  Miguel

  Fear, Men, Wish

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• During this Christmas season, when the world seems to be in turmoil, wars are breaking out in different places, crime is rampant, and many things are happening that are great sins in the sight of God. But in that crib is the person who grew up to save us. And He did.

  Billy Graham

  Christmas, Sight, Different

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• The reason that so many times we don't win the battle is that we never show up for the war!

  Adrian Rogers

  Winning, Battle, Reason

  Adrian Rogers (2002). “The Incredible Power of Kingdom Authority: Getting an Upper Hand on the Underworld”, p.3, B&H Publishing Group

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• There is... in our day, a powerful antidote to nonsense, which hardly existed in earlier times - I mean science. Science cannot be ignored or rejected, because it is bound up with modern technique; it is essential alike to prosperity in peace and to victory in war. That is, perhaps from an intellectual point of view, the most hopeful feature of our age, and the one which makes it most likely that we shall escape complete submersion in some new or old superstition.

  Bertrand Russell

  Powerful, Spring, Mean

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• A preacher was operated on for a hernia. As this was about the time of the first world war he was given ether. As he was coming out of the anesthetic a fire broke out in the building next door. As the flames began to show through the hospital windows the nurse pulled the shades down. She didn't want the preacher to think his operation had been a failure.

  Art Linkletter

  Time, Failure, Thinking

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• Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling one's pulse and taking one's temperature.

  Winston Churchill

  Feelings, Atmosphere, Temperature

  Sir Winston Churchill (1942). “The Unrelenting Struggle: War Speeches by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill ...”

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• War is about remaking the world to suit the whims of some powerful group over the whims of some other powerful group. The dead are just the sparks that fly from the metal as they grind it down.

  David Wong

  Powerful, Groups, World

  David Wong (2012). “This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It”, p.302, Macmillan

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• Unlike the authors of such warrior classics as The Art of War and The Book of the Five Rings, which accept the inevitability of war and emphasize cunning strategy as a means to victory, Morihei understood that continued fighting-with others, with ourselves, and with the environment-will ruin the earth. “The world will continue to change dramatically, but fighting and war can destroy us utterly. What we need now are techniques of harmony, not those of contention. The Art of Peace is required, not the Art of War.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, Book, Mean

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.5, Shambhala Publications

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• Let us take some event in the life of humanity. For instance, war. There is a war going on at the present moment. What does it signify? It signifies that several millions of sleeping people are trying to destroy several millions of other sleeping people. They would not do this, of course, if they were to wake up. Everything that takes place is owing to this sleep.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Sleep, People, Humanity

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• There must be room for penitence to mend Life's broken chance;
  else noise of wars would unmake heaven.

  Alice Cary

  Broken, Heaven, Noise

  Mary Clemmer, Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary (1873). “A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary: With Some of Their Later Poems”, p.95

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• Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind. In this sense the most insignificant writer can serve peace, where the most powerful tribunals can do nothing.

  Julien Benda

  Powerful, Mind, States

  Julien Benda (2011). “The Treason of the Intellectuals”, p.184, Transaction Publishers

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• I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.

  Antonio Tabucchi

  Country, World, Invasion

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• But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the Afghan villages or homes. Its in the sanctuaries, it is in the training grounds, its in the motivation factors and the money that comes to it.

  Hamid Karzai

  Motivation, Believe, Home

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• In Burton's day they [soldiers] were itching to get into the fray. Now it is the opposite. They are always whining about the dangers of being killed. Oh my God, they are such wimps now! The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining!

  Rupert Everett

  Army, Thinking, Opposites

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• And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.

  Oliver North

  Country, Men, Population

  "Oliver North Discusses His Book, ‘War Stories II: Heroism in the Pacific’". "Your Turn — Meeting Nonsense with Common Sense" with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. March 9, 2005.

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