Bystanders Quote by Jack McDevitt

One must not judge everyone in the world by his qualities as a soldier: otherwise we should have no civilization.

— Erwin Rommel

The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.

— Arthur Helps

The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The Strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.

— Gene Roddenberry

Men are seldom born brave but they acquire courage through training and discipline - a handful of men inured to war proceed to certain…

— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

Nonviolence requires more courage than the soldier of war.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is no lack of bravery in the ranks of our armed forces, but bureaucratic cowardice rules in our intelligence establishment (as well as…

— Ralph Peters

Bravery in simple soldiers is a dangerous trade, to which they have bound themselves to get their livelihood.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

— Pearl S. Buck

Throughout the history of our young nation, we have seen our military go bravely into battle, armed with courage and willing to make the…

— John M. McHugh

An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.

— Alfred de Vigny

In recent years we have seen a great deal of bravery and self-sacrifice, but civil courage hardly anywhere, even among ourselves.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer