To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.
In war, truth is the first casualty
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.
Beware the man of a single book.
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
“I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
If the dead could speak there would be no more war.
Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized... we' ll have war.
Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
War is like love, it always finds a way.
Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.
Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
Always bear in mind that the people are not fighting for ideas, for the things in anyone’s head. They are fighting to win material benefits, to live better and in peace, to see their lives go forward, to guarantee the future of their children.
Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.
Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
Reading is a possession, a march toward a possession.
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?
Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
"Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
I don't know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.
The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.
Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self.
We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.
Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
Man is not something fixed or completed, but a being constantly shaped through choices, possibilities, and awareness of life itself.”
War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.
We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
You are my drunkenness... I did not sober up, as if I can do that; I don't want to anyway. I have a headache, my knees are full of scars I am in mud all around I struggle to walk towards your hesitant light.”
When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.”
Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
To live is to war with trolls.”
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
What is joy? The wish to live. The joy of life. Who care for awards!
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction.
No mercy for these enemies of the people, the enemies of socialism, the enemies of the working people! War to the death against the rich and their hangers-on, the bourgeois intellectuals; war on the rogues, the idlers and the rowdies!
Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.
Life is a strange thing. Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins. To live is to toil hard and to suffer sore, till old age creeps heavily upon us and we throw down our hands on the cold ashes of dead fires. It is hard to live. In pain the babe sucks his first breath, in pain the old man gasps his last, and all his days are full of trouble and sorrow; yet he goes down to the open arms of death, stumbling, falling, with head turned backward, fighting to the last. And death is kind. It is only life and the things of life that hurt. Yet we love life and we hate death. It is very strange.
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.”
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace
Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
If there is one thing that the women and men of the late 20th century who have an awareness and enjoyment of history can be sure of, it is that Islam was not sent from Heaven to foster egotism and mediocrity.
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
“My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going.
Peace hath her victories No less renowned than war.
Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (said in 1888).
People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories are no less revealing than its aims.
Every response, whether it be an act directed towards the outside world or an act internalized as thought, takes the form of an adaptation or, better, of a re-adaptation.
When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head. If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.”
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
“The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.”
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
We become aware of the void as we fill it.
An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.
There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.
My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.
Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue.
I honor the father in his son, not the son in his father. Each one receives a reward or punishment for his deeds, but not for the acts of others
Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.
I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.
The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgment free.
When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America and the introduction of African slaves in their place.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
But I have a conscience and a religious faith, and I know that our liberties were not won without suffering, and may be lost again through our cowardice. I intend to do my duty to my country.
Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
Love between a man and a woman is a war.
Women are war booty.
Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
Men who are capable of real action first make their plans and then go forward without hesitation while their enemies have still not made up their minds.
“The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
I'm a coward. I succumbed to jealousy and now it eats my heart.
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
And, perhaps, in the education of both sexes, the most difficult task is so to adjust instruction as not to narrow the understanding, whilst the heart is warmed by the generous juices of spring.
Those whom fate has dealt hard knocks remain vulnerable for ever afterwards.