Quotes on War

Collection of ancient quotes about war containing quotes about war.
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The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.

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When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them then he is always stirring up some wary or other in order that the people may require a leader.

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All is fair in love and war

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A A good deed is like peeing in your pants. Everyone knows you did it, but only you can feel it’s warmth. is like peeing in your pants. Everyone knows you did it, but only you can feel it’s warmth.

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We are mad, not only individually but nationally. We check
manslaughter and isolated murders, but what of war and the much-vaunted
crime of slaughtering whole peoples?

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Only the dead have seen the end of war.

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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

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I feel people will tend toward universal love and mutual aid like fire tending upward and water downwards

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When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.

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Love is a kind of warfare.

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Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

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Children are the reward of life.

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The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.

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No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward.

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A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.

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Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

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Take these things to heart, my son, I warn you. All men make mistakes, it is only human. But once the wrong is done, a man can turn his back on folly, misfortune too, if he tries to make amends, however low he’s fallen, and stops his bullnecked ways. Stubbornness brands you for stupidity – pride is a crime.

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The wise warrior avoids the battle.

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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

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War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.

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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

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But the lust for power never dies- men cannot have enough. No one will lift a hand to send it from his door, to give it warning, ‘Power, never come again!

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If a chieftain or a man (common soldier), who has been ordered to go upon the king’s highway for war does not go, but hires a mercenary, if he withholds the compensation, then shall this officer or man be put to death, and he who represented him shall take possession of his house.

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It’s not at all uncommon to find a person’s desires compelling him to go against his reason, and to see him cursing himself and venting his passion on the source of the compulsion within him. It’s as if there were two warring factions, with passion fighting on the side of reason. But I’m sure you won’t claim that you had ever, in yourself or in anyone else, met a case of passion siding with his desires against the rational mind, when the rational mind prohibits resistance.

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Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves.

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The reward of suffering is experience.

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War is sweet to those who have no experience of it. But the experienced man trembles exceedingly in his heart at its approach.

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You man are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily.

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A young fawn once said to his Mother, You are larger than a dog and swifter and more used to running and you have your horns as a defense; why then O Mother! do the hounds frighten you so?” She smiled and said: “I know full well my son that all you say is true. I have the advantages you mention but when I hear even the bark of a single dog I feel ready to faint and fly away as fast as I can.” No arguments will give courage to the coward.

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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

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In love there are two evils: war and peace.

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Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.

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Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world.

There is no greater misfortune
than underestimating your enemy.
Underestimating your enemy
means thinking that he is evil.
Thus you destroy your three treasures
and become an enemy yourself.
When two great forces oppose each other,
the victory will go to the one that knows how to yield.

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There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.

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What man can you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he is dying daily? For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed, Whatever years be behind us are in death’s hands.

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Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

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Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.

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He neglected not his own body, and praised not those that neglected theirs. In like manner, he blamed the custom of some who eat too much, and afterwards use violent exercises; but he approved of eating till nature be satisfied, and of a moderate exercise after it, believing that method to be an advantage to health, and proper to unbend and divert the mind.

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It is best to work, at whatever you have a talent for doing, without turning your greedy thought toward what some other man possesses, but take care of your own livelihood, as I advise you.

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Not-knowing is true knowledge. Presuming to know is a disease. First realize that you are sick; then you can move toward health.

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The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.

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To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.

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