Best tasks & war Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Today, we are now deciding how do we treat those who are choosing to carry out a war against us, non-U.S. citizens who are choosing to take us to task for what we believe and who we are. In this conflict, we have to decide how we are going to try to find these terrorists.”

Trying Believe War Today Citizens Conflict Tasks Treats Terrorist Who We Are

Author:Todd Tiahrt

“When you join the Parachute Regiment they send you on training and initiation exercises. One of the tasks is to accept and care for a pet white rabbit. The young squaddie has to feed, brush, stroke and comfort his rabbit for a week, and become attached to it. Then he has to shoot it.”

War Care Young White Accepting Week Exercise Comfort Training Tasks Pet Strokes Brushes Rabbits Initiation Parachutes Brush Strokes

Author:Matthew Parris

“...to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.”

Firsts War Peace Tasks Corporations Anti War Conspiracy Antiwar Alliances Political Power State Government Statesmanship

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. The very prevention of war requires more faith, courage and resolution than are needed to prepare for war. We must all do our share, that we may be equal to the task of peace.”

May War Share Needed Equal Tasks Resolution Prevention

Book:Einstein on Peace

Source: Einstein on Peace

“I have received a commission to make a poster against war. That is a task that makes me happy. Some may say a thousand times that this is not pure art.... but as long as I can work, I want to be effective with my art.”

Want May Long Art I Can War Thousand Pure Tasks Make Me Happy Posters Against War

Author:Kathe Kollwitz

“The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt. There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal. Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .”

Men May War Able Common Clear Share Tasks Ultimate Universal Infinite Kingdoms Absurd Perceive Spite Contempt Loyal Vulgar Finite Peril Incessant Glorification

Book:Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays

Source: Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays

“Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise we face certain disaster. Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars...The stakes are immense, the task colossal the time is short. But we may hope- we must hope- that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.”

“Industrial production, the flow of resources in the economy, the exertion of military effort in a war, the management of finances --all require the coordination of interrelated activities. What these complex undertakings share in common is the task of constructing a statement of actions to be performed, their timing and quantity (called a program or schedule), that, if implemented, would move the system from a given initial status as much as possible towards some defined goal”

“How this feels is I'm just another task in God's daily planner: The Renaissance pencilled in for right after the Dark Ages. The Information Age is scheduled immediately after the Industrial Revolution. Then the Post-Modern Era, then The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Famine. Check. Pestilence. Check. War. Check. Death. Check. And between the big events, the earthquakes and tidal waves, God's got me squeezed in for a cameo appearance. Then maybe in thirty years, or maybe next year, God's daily planner has me finished.”

“Lay down the axe; fling by the spade; Leave in its track the toiling plough; The rifle and the bayonet-blade For arms like yours were fitter now; And let the hands that ply the pen Quit the light task, and learn to wield The horseman's crooked brand, and rein The charger on the battle-field.”

War Hands Light Fields Like You Arms Battle Tasks Lays Track Quitting Brands Pens Blades Crooked Rifles Reins Fling Spades Bayonets Horsemen Toiling Plies

Author:William C. Bryant

“A woman's work, from the time she gets up to the time she goes to bed, is as hard as a day at war, worse than a man's working day. ... To men, women's work was like the rain-bringing clouds, or the rain itself. The task involved was carried out every day as regularly as sleep. So men were happy - men in the Middle Ages, men at the time of the Revolution, and men in 1986: everything in the garden was lovely.”

Men War Hard Age Women Sleep Middle Revolution Involved Bed Rain Garden Tasks Clouds Lovely Get Up Inequality Sexism Middle Ages Men Women Happy Man

Author:Marguerite Duras

“A time comes when silence is betrayal. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government's policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought, within one's own bosom and in the surrounding world.”

“On this tenth day of June, nineteen hundred and forty, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.... In our unity, in our American unity we will pursue two obvious and simultaneous courses; we will extend to the opponents of force the material resources of this nation, and at the same time we will harness and speed up the use of those resources in order that we ourselves in the Americas may have equipment and training equal to the task of any emergency and every defense.”

“The first task of the Federal Reserve system would be to finance the World War. The European nations were already bankrupt, because they had maintained large standing armies for almost fifty years, a situation created by their own central banks, and therefore they could not finance a war. A central bank always imposes a tremendous burden on the nation for "rearmament" and "defense", in order to create inextinguishable debt, simultaneously creating a military dictatorship and enslaving the people to pay the "interest" on the debt which the bankers have artificially created.”

“The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war. We do not want a war. We do not now expect a war. This generation of Americans has already had enough - more than enough - of war and hate and oppression. We shall be prepared if others wish it. We shall be alert to try to stop it. But we shall also do our part to build a world of peace where the weak are safe and the strong are just. We are not helpless before that task or hopeless of its success. Confident and unafraid, we labor on - not toward a strategy of annihilation but toward a strategy of peace.”

“God has left me alive, so it looks like I'm needed for something ... As soon as there is a possibility for me to return, I will return and will do everything I can to make life better in Ukraine. And today, the main task is to stop the war.”

Life Looks I Can War Today Left Alive Possibility Return Needed Tasks Ukraine

Author:Viktor Yanukovych

“We must evaluate the political sympathies of other states and the effect war may have on them. To assess these things in all their ramifications and diversity is plainly a colossal task. Rapid and correct appraisal of them clearly calls for the intuition of a genius; to master all this complex mass by sheer methodical examination is obviously impossible. Bonaparte was quite right when he said that Newton himself would quail before the algebraic problems it could pose.”

“I found a lot of stuff that's never been seen before. That was the goal: to not use cliché Cold War footage but give people a sense of the place and setting. It's a field you still need. At first it was a lot of fun, and then later it became a little bit intimidating. "Oh my God, I've got so much footage. Where am I going to put it? What am I going to do?" I ended up really only reviewing about 20 to 30 percent of what I had. So it was a task.”

People Needs Giving Firsts Littles Stills War Use Found Fun Stuff Bits Goal Fields Cold Little Bit Percent Tasks Setting Settings Cold War Intimidating

Author:Gabe Polsky

“But [the Arabs'] friendship was venal, their faith inconstant, their enmity capricious: it was an easier task to excite than to disarm these roving barbarians; and, in the familiar intercourse of war, they learned to see, and to despise, the splendid weakness both of Rome and of Persia.”

War Easier Weakness Tasks Familiar Rome Despise Splendid Intercourse Barbarians Enmity Capricious Persia Roving

Book:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: The Modern Library Collection (Complete and Unabridged)

Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: The Modern Library Collection (Complete and Unabridged)

“It seems to me an utterly futile task to prescribe rules and limitations for the conduct of war. War is not a game; hence one cannot wage war by rules as one would in playing games. Our fight must be against war itself. The masses of people can most effectively fight the institution of war by establishing an organization for the absolute refusal of military service.”

People War Seems Fighting Games Military Mass Tasks Organization Absolutes Institutions Limitation Refusal Playing Games Military Service Against War

Book:Einstein on Peace

Source: Einstein on Peace

“We [with Shindzo Abe] should understand that the results of that terrible tragedy of the 20th century, namely World War II, are enshrined in corresponding international documents, and finding a way to settle all disputes without destroying the entire foundation of international law that evolved as a result of World War II is a highly delicate task. Therefore, I would like to reiterate that we cannot second-guess the course, let alone the outcome of our negotiations.”

“The first task of the doctor is ... political: the struggle against disease must begin with a war against bad government." Man will be totally and definitively cured only if he is first liberated.”

Ifs Men Firsts War Government Political Struggle Disease Tasks Doctors Liberated Bad Government

Book:The birth of the clinic: an archaeology of medical perception

Source: The birth of the clinic: an archaeology of medical perception

“Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us.”

War Nations Existence Land Tasks Importance Leaving Compare Presidential Conservation Preservation Descendants Great War Teddy Land Conservation

Book:Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

“That is the way we decided to talk, free and easy, two young men discussing a boxing match. That was the only way to talk. You couldn't let too much truth seep into your conversation, you couldn't admit with your mouth what your eyes had seen. If you opened the door even a centimeter, you would smell the rot outside and hear the screams. You did not open the door. You kept your mind on the tasks of the day, the hunt for food and water and something to burn, and you saved the rest for the end of the war.”

Ifs Men Way Mind Two War Ends Eye Young Easy Water Too Much Doors Conversation Mouths Tasks Decided Smell Saved Young Man Boxing Scream Hunts Discussing Boxing Matches

Book:City of Thieves: A Novel

Source: City of Thieves: A Novel

“The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.”

War Helping Today Humanity Peace Healing Tasks Method Helping Others Peaceful Revolutionary Substitutes Constructive Replacements Pacifist Being At Peace Pacifism

Book:The Rebel Passion: A Short History of Some Pioneer Peacemakers

Source: The Rebel Passion: A Short History of Some Pioneer Peacemakers

“Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.”

Men Long War Use Spiritual Spirituality Winning Peace Moral Mankind Resources Tasks Lasting Reserves

Book:War Or Peace

Source: War Or Peace

“I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war... But we have no more urgent task.”

Men War Ends Speak Peace Realizing Tasks Pursuit Rational Dramatic Urgent Being At Peace Make Peace Not War

Author:John F. Kennedy

“We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest-cure compared to the task of reconciling our differences.”

Way Kind War Humanity Peace Differences Tasks Opposites Active Cures Passive

Author:Mary Parker Follett

“A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.”

Needs Firsts War Joy Found Doubt Essentials Tasks Destruction Hammers Hardness

Book:Ecce Homo

Source: Ecce Homo

“The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.”

War Facts Masters Skills Tasks Overcoming Opponents

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. [We'd] find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together.”

Ifs Thinking World Humans War Helping Might Earth Together Easy Human Beings This World Mines Planets Tasks Threat Meetings Patriotism Patriotic Antiwar Gorbachev

Author:Ronald Reagan

“Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.”

“The Sappers really need no tribute from me; their reward lies in the glory of their achievement. The more science intervenes in warfare, the more will be the need for engineers in field armies; in the late war there were never enough Sappers at any time. Their special tasks involved the upkeep and repair of communications; roads, bridges, railways, canals, mine sweeping. The Sappers rose to great heights in World War II and their contribution to victory was beyond all calculations.”

“During the time I have had WACs under my command, they have met every test and task assigned to them...their contributions in efficiency, skill, spirit, and determination are immeasurable.”

World War Spirit Mets Skills Determination Tasks Tests Command War Of The Worlds Contribution World War Ii Efficiency World War 2

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well-trained, well-equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely”

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Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as the immediate task of the coming revolutionary action.”

People Ifs War Would Be Action Communication Mass Tasks Revolutionary Desperate Deceiving Bloody Concealed Extermination

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“I look upon the People and the Nation as handed on to me as an responsibility conferred upon me by God, and I believe, as it is written in the Bible, that it is my duty to increase this heritage for which one day I shall be called upon to give an account. Whoever tries to interfere with my task I shall crush.”

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Author:Wilhelm II

“But also out here in this dreary, difficult war, I think history will record that this may have been one of Americas finest hours, because we took a difficult task and we succeeded.”

Thinking May Has Beens War Difficult Hours History Records Tasks Finest Dreary Difficult Tasks Finest Hour

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1969

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1969

“We must be the great arsenal of democracy. For us this is an emergency as serious as war itself. We must apply ourselves to our task with the same resolution, the same sense of urgency, the same spirit of patriotism and sacrifice as we would show were we at war.”

War Shows Spirit Democracy Sacrifice Serious Tasks Resolution Emergencies Urgency World War 2 Arsenal Sense Of Urgency Pearl Harbor Day

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“We have thought of peace as passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest cure compared to the task of reconciling our differences ... From War to Peace is not from the strenuous to the easy existence; it is from the futile to the effective, from the stagnant to the active, from the destructive to the creative way of life ... The world will be regenerated by the people who rise above these passive ways and heroically seek, by whatever hardship, by whatever toil, the methods by which people can agree.”

People World Way Kind War Easy Differences Existence Compassion Creative Tasks Opposites Agree Method Active Cures Destructive Hardship Passive Toil Rise Above Stagnant

Author:Mary Parker Follett

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