War Philosophy Quotes

We often participate in a war only to lose our hearts and to gain a few pieces of land. ~ Debasish Mridha

Man's fall, his need of a new birth, forgiveness through an atonement, and salvation as the result of faith, these are our battle-ax and weapons of war. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

... experience has taught me that even the strongest armor can be pierced through with the sharpest blade. ~ Varun Sayal

Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned everything is war ~ Bob Marley

I have an opinion about holy war, which in general I must keep to myself. I have no wish to be known as a heretic. It is ... that if a war can be holy, then God cannot. At best a war can only be necessary. ~ Louis De Bernieres

I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of disputation rather than the trophies of war. ~ Peter Abelard

However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II. ~ Walter Kohn

Peace doesn't come by fighting - it comes by not fighting - it comes by not hitting back in return. ~ Abhijit Naskar

A political battle is merely a skirmish fought with muskets; a philosophical battle is a nuclear war. ~ Ayn Rand

I am at war ... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise. ~ Pam Gems

The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy. ~ Douglas Sirk

The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use. ~ George Orwell

I needed to talk to my dad. My dad who had been to war, who had seen its horrors, who suffered from its nightmares, my dad who was a good man, the best man I'd ever known, who, along with my uncle, I wanted to honor by teaching military kids - my dad, the only one who I would believe if he would just tell me I could be good, too, that I could do right by my students, because for sure they were going to suffer. It's just cause and effect. We're at war. The military fights wars. I teach military kids. I'd never served, but now I could make a difference. I just needed my dad to tell me what to do, to tell me I was good enough to get it done. ~ Tucker Elliot

My philosophy is if you worry, you suffer twice. ~ J.K. Rowling

In every physical action, unless it is purely mechanical, there is concealed some inner action, some feelings. This is how the two levels of life in a part are created, the inner and the outer. They are intertwined. A common purpose brings them together and reinforces the unbreakable bond. ~ Constantin Stanislavski

Life can test our limits. And we may stumble and fall. But we can never ever give up in life! ~ Avijeet Das

The civil war which has so long prevailed between Spain and the Provinces in South America still continues, without any prospect of its speedy termination. ~ James Monroe

If this is a dream, I hope I remember it. ~ Thomas Lloyd Qualls

You gotta admit, it's a messed-up world when going to war is safer than staying home. ~ Paul Langan

Love and kindness have no boundaries or borders. ~ Debasish Mridha

I would appreciate it if they would call a halt on all their devoted efforts to find a way to abolish war or eliminate disease or run trains with atoms or extend the span of the human life to a couple of centuries, and everybody concentrate for a while on how to wake me up in the morning without my resenting it. ~ Rex Stout

All religions, nearly all philosophies, and even a part of science testify to the unwearying, heroic effort of mankind desperately denying its contingency. ~ Jacques Monod

Good soldiers know that if they don't recognize who their enemy is, they are destined to lose the war. That is also true for those of us who battle in God's army. Even though Jesus put the enemy under His feet and won the victory for us, we still must move into that victory. There are still battles to be fought in prayer. ~ Stormie O'martian

Richmond's newspaper questioned how a senior general could not even get two of his own generals to cooperate with him. They nicknamed him "Granny" Lee or "The King Of Spades," because he insisted that his men dig trenches on Sewell Mountain. ~ Clint Johnson

People took part in the referendum because they were tired of the war. They are afraid of talking about it out loud, but they have shown exactly where they stand: Yes, we want peace, and we want to be a part of Russia. ~ Akhmad Kadyrov

Your actions create an "energy vortex" that draws in the necessary ingredients for your venture. ~ Chris Prentiss

When you have a purpose of life it becomes the light to show you the path toward your destination. ~ Debasish Mridha

World War III will be triggered off not by suppressed nationalists seeking political independence, as happened the first time around when the Serbs at Sarajevo shot the heir to the Austrian throne, but by some semiliterate, whacked-out "loner" who lobs a rocket into a nuclear arsenal in order to impress Brooke Shields. ~ Philip Roth

He would have been careful not to violate his conscience in any way that might keep him from devoting his full attention to the sin he had decided to commit. Pedro was not really very different from all men, at least in that. Not very different from the bank teller who makes sure to give every customer exact change, even while he is embezzling. ~ Warren Eyster

SOME DAMNED FOOLISH THING in the Balkans, Bismarck had predicted, would ignite the next war. The assassination of the Austrian heir apparent, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, by Serbian nationalists on June 28, 1914, satisfied his condition. ~ Barbara W. Tuchman

There is but one true philosophical problem and that is suicide. ~ Albert Camus

Once he had drawn first blood, his war against the property of the state lost all its moral resonance. ~ Pat Conroy

War is the rule of force, and peace is the reign of law. ~ Calvin Coolidge

Yoga philosophy teaches that real man is not his body, but that the immortal I, of which each human being is conscious to some degree according to his mental evolution, is not the body but merely occupies and uses the body as an instrument. ~ Vishnudevananda Saraswati

You gotta think positive, you know. Make the obstacles opportunities. Thats my philosophy. ~ Melina Kanakaredes

When God said 'Let there be light'.
May be he meant it Inside. ~ Jasleen Kaur Gumber

...Chief without soldiers is just a very lonely man in a big bloody field ~ Joe Abercrombie

Vera had also hated lipstick, Marzipan and Lutherans - excluding her husband, but not her late mother-in-law. Most of all she hated being governed by anyone or anything. ~ Victoria Dougherty

A newspaper publisher. In the late 1800s the United States and Spain were warming up for a war over Cuba, and Hearst sent an illustrator to Cuba to make pictures of the event. When the illustrator got there, he sent a telegram to Hearst saying that as far as he could see, there was no war coming and that he was going home. Hearst sent back that he should stay and said, 'You furnish the pictures, and I will furnish the war.' And he did. ~ John Scalzi

They [Nicaragua] haven't had elections because they are in a state of seige by the United States. They would have had elections if the U.S. had left them alone. But the U.S. has mounted a full scale war against them. So how can you ask them to behave normally? ~ Allen Ginsberg

When I want to be beloved, I love someone. ~ Debasish Mridha

The truth is helpless when up against perception ~ Zack W. Van

Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing. ~ Dejan Stojanovic