Compensation Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

— George Santayana

War, like all other situations of danger and of change, calls forth the exertion of admirable intellectual qualities and great virtues, and it is…

— William C. Bryant

There is only one favorable moment in war; talent consists in knowing how to seize it.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The greatest intensification of the horrors of war is a direct result of the democratisation of the State. So long as the army was…

— Herbert Read

“War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love…

— Immanuel Kant

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. A war for commercial supremacy, upon some shallow pretext, is despicable, and more than aught…

— Albert Pike

Often war is waged only in order to show valor; thus an inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and even some philosophers have…

— Immanuel Kant

In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!

— Napoleon Bonaparte

War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary…

— George Bernard Shaw

“Everything in war hinges on what you know of your adversary's skills and asset.”

— Marie Rutkoski

The quest for a war-free world has a basic purpose: survival. But if in the process we learn how to achieve it by love…

— Joseph Rotblat

In war, mere appearances have had all the effect of realities; and that a person, under a firm persuasion that he can command resources,…

— Livy