Best belief & war Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's one in 10 of all the British servicemen lost in the Second World War. It beggars belief that there has not been some recognition for what they gave until now.”

Men World War Belief Lost British Command Recognition War Of The Worlds World War I Beggar Second World War Bombers Servicemen

Author:Carol Vorderman

“After a few (or many) bad relationships, its so easy to shut down, give up, and stop believing that the right person is out there for us. Our hearts yearn to fall in love, but our minds insist its not possible, and we enter into a tug-of-war with ourselves. Its as if one part of us is screaming, Yes! I deserve a great relationship! while another part insists, Ill never find him or her. When our beliefs contradict our desires, we experience an inner conflict that not only paralyzes us, but can actually prevent us from recognizing the possibilities for love that exist all around us.”

Source: The Soulmate Secret: Manifest the Love of Your Life with the Law of Attraction

“President Reagan fueled the spirit of America. His smile, his optimism, his total belief in the ultimate triumph of democracy and freedom, and his willingness to act on that belief, helped end the Cold War and usher in a new and brighter phase of history.”

War Ends America Spirit Belief President Democracy Cold Optimism Ultimate Triumph Willingness Phases Cold War Brighter His Smile President Reagan

Author:Colin Powell

“Declaring victory without war .. the belief that India gave up the option of war under American pressure is totally wrong.”

War Belief Victory India Pressure Gave Up Declaring

Author:Atal Bihari Vajpayee

“Is it not tragic, for example, that while in the last World War almost everyone believed it was the war to end all wars and wanted to make it so, now in this Second World War almost no writer that I have read dares even suggest that this is the war to end all wars, or act on that belief? We have lost the courage to hope.”

World War Ends Wanted Lasts Belief Lost Example Dare War Of The Worlds Tragic Second World War

Book:Between Tears and Laughter

Source: Between Tears and Laughter

“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”

Source: Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art

“I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth; that freedom of enquiry will produce liberality of conduct; that mankind will reverse the absurd position that the many were, made for the few; and that they will not continue slaves in one part of the globe, when they can become freemen in another.”

Made War Light Earth Belief Dark Mankind Position Produce Intellectual Spring Slave Corners Absurd Rejoice Reverse Globes Freeman Enquiry Liberality

Book:The Papers of George Washington: April-June 1789

Source: The Papers of George Washington: April-June 1789

“I want that there should be a belief, a faith in the possibility of removing mountains to the side of right. If we believe that war is wrong, as everyone must, then we ought to believe that by proper efforts on our part, it may be done away with.”

Ifs Want Should Believe May War Done Belief Sides Effort Possibility Ought Mountain

Author:Lucretia Mott

“...several of the first presidents, including Jefferson and Madison, generally refused to issue public prayers, despite importunings to do so. Under pressure, Madison relented in the War Of 1812, but held to his belief that chaplains shouldn't be appointed to the military or be allowed to open Congress.”

Firsts War Religion Belief President Prayer Issues Military Pressure Including Congress Despite Under Pressure Madison Chaplains War Of 1812

Author:James Madison

“Whence arose all the horrid assassinations of whole nations of men, women, and infants, with which the Bible is filled; and the bloody persecutions, and tortures unto death, and religiosu wars, that since that time have laid Europe in blood and ashes; whence arose they, but from this impious thing called religion, and this monstrous belief that God has spoken to man?”

Men War Whole Religion Belief Nations Blood Europe Filled Torture Ashes Bloody Persecution Infant Men Women Monstrous Assassination

Book:The Theological Works of Thomas Paine

Source: The Theological Works of Thomas Paine

“All the ideals and beliefs you ever had have crashed about your gun-deafened ears - you don't believe in God or them or the infallibility of England or anything but bloody war and wounds and foul smells and smutty stories and smoke and bombs and lice and filth and noise, noise, noise - you live in a world of cold sick fear, a dirty world of darkness and despair - you want to crawl ignominiously home away from these painful writhing things that once were men, these shattered, tortured faces that dumbly demand what it's all about in Christ's name.”

“It was like a life-line to a sinking man. It seemed to bring hope where there was none. The generosity of it was beyond our belief.”

Men War Belief Lines Cold Generosity Cold War Sinking Life Line

Author:Ernest Bevin

“Belief is self-knowing. Even Yoda out of Star Wars said, 'Do or do not. There is no try.'”

Trying Said War Self Belief Stars Knowing Self Knowing

Author:Gene Simmons

“There are two parts to the human dilemma. One is the belief that the end justifies the means. That push-button philosophy, that deliberate deafness to suffering, has become the monster in the war machine. The other is the betrayal of the human spirit: the assertion of dogma that closes the mind, and turns a nation, a civilization, into a regiment of ghosts--obedient ghosts or tortured ghosts.”

Source: The Ascent of Man

“The hope of the world is that wisdom can arrest conflict between brothers. I believe that war is the deadly harvest of arrogant and unreasoning minds. And I find grounds for this belief in the wisdom literature of Proverbs. It says in effect this: Panic strikes like a storm and calamity comes like a whirlwind to those who hate knowledge and ignore their God.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957

“Not to destroy but to construct, I hold the unconquerable belief that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war that nations will come together not to destroy but to construct and that the future belongs to those who accomplish most for humanity.”

War Together Science Humanity Belief Nations Ignorance Accomplish Ignorant Triumph Accomplishment Constructs Unconquerable

Author:Adlai E. Stevenson

“To do what we are doing in this budget to our children, cutting their health care funds, decreasing opportunity, simply so we can pay for tax cuts and a war in Iraq is beyond belief, and we need to reverse it”

Needs Children War Care Opportunity Belief Pay Cutting Taxes Our Children Iraq Health Care Budgets Fund Reverse Tax Cuts

Author:Tom Allen

“My religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me.”

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Author:Stonewall Jackson

“The Soviet assumption that all other political life-forms and beliefs were inherently and immutably hostile was the simple and central cause of that Cold War.”

War Form Political Belief Causes Simple Cold Assumption Soviet Cold War Hostile Political Life

Author:Robert Conquest

“We have to enforce the laws we've already got, make sure that we're keeping guns out of the hands of criminals, those who are mentally ill. I also share your belief that weapons that were designed for soldiers in war theaters don't belong on our streets. And so what I'm trying to do is to get a broader conversation about how do we reduce the violence generally.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“In a nuclear age, and in an age of serious environmental degradation, apocalyptic belief creates a serious second order danger. The precarious logic of self-interest that saw us through the Cold War would collapse if the leaders of one nuclear state came to welcome, or ceased to fear mass death.”

“It is not the willingness to kill on the part of our soldiers which most concerns me. That is an inherent part of war. It is our lack of respect for even the admirable characteristics of our enemy; for courage, for suffering, for death, for his willingness to die for his beliefs, for his companies and squadrons which go forth, one after another, to annihilation against our superior training and equipment.”

War Suffering Dies Belief Company Enemy Training Concern Soldier Superiors Characteristics Willingness Inherent Equipment Art Of War Admirable Annihilation Lack Of Respect

Author:Charles Lindbergh

“War is no longer made by simply analyzed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms have failed to satisfy the people they misrule.”

People Ifs Men Made War Play Individual Belief Force Economic Reform Dictator Mislead Fallacy

Book:Hemingway on War

Source: Hemingway on War

“The darkness that we see in our world today is due to the disintegration of things out of harmony with God's laws. The basic conflict is not between nations, it is between two opposing beliefs. The first is that evil can be overcome by more evil, that the end justifies the means. This belief is very prevalent in our world today. It is the war way. It is the official position of every major nation.”

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