Memorial Day Sayings

Honoring those who served and sacrificed — 481 sayings

Untroubled, scornful, outrageous – that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.

— Friedrich Nietzsche 1883-1885
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The war is language, language abused for Advertisement, language used like magic for power on the planet.

— Allen Ginsberg 1966
War & Violence

The only war that matters is the war against the imagination.

— Allen Ginsberg 1978
War & Violence

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

— Agatha Christie 1977
War & Violence

The eager and adventurous unemployed young are indeed the shock troops in the destruction of the old social order everywhere.

— H.G. Wells Undated, cited in a 2016 book
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The basis of your religion is injustice. The Son of God, the pure, the immaculate, the innocent, is sacrificed for the guilty.

— Lord Byron c. 1811
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You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.

— Lionel Messi 2010s
Work & Money

I am a soldier, and I shall do my duty.

— Florence Nightingale 1854
Self-Deprecating

Our environment is being sacrificed for the opportunity for a very small number of people to continue making enormous amounts of money.

— Greta Thunberg 2018
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I am a warrior. I fight for what I believe in.

— Andrew Tate 2022
Self-Deprecating

The Vietnam War was a noble cause that was lost in execution.

— Peter Thiel 2011
War & Violence

Govern a state by justice, wage war by surprise, and take the world by doing nothing.

— Laozi 6th century BCE (approximate)
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passionately supporting Richard Nixon and the war in Vietnam, keeping women at home, and practicing an intense love for and devotion to Jesus Christ?

— Tiny Tim c. 1960s-1970s
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The thing that bothered me about it was that I was doing work for the military, and I didn't like that.

— Richard Feynman 1980s (recollection)
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The experience of the war has made it clear that the future of civilization depends on the development of a world community.

— Robert Oppenheimer 1947
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The chemical war is not a war against insects alone, it is a war against the earth and all its inhabitants.

— Rachel Carson 1962
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An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.

— Alexander the Great c. 330 BCE
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I am not a weakling, I am a warrior, and I will fight until my last breath.

— Alexander the Great c. 330 BCE
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I paid the soldiers their bounties from my own patrimony.

— Augustus Caesar 14 AD
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I established colonies of soldiers in Africa, Sicily, and Italy.

— Augustus Caesar 14 AD
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