Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About War

• Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Peace

• The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Peace, War

• Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Commitment, Focus And Concentration

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.339

• The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Peace, Real, War

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.296, Cosimo, Inc.

• Our culture, therefore, must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season, that he is born into the state of war, and that the commonwealth and his own well-being require that he should not go dancing in the weeds of peace, but warned, self- collected, and neither defying nor dreading the thunder, let him take both reputation and life in his hand, and, with perfect urbanity, dare the gibbet and the mob by the absolute truth of his speech, and the rectitude of his behaviour.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Weed, War, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.74, 谷月社

• Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Mean, Science

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.622, Modern Library

• If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms, for they have not so much madness left in their brains, you have a nation of lovers, of benefactors, of true, great, and able men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Men, Brain

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1905). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”

• Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Book, Inspire

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.10, Xist Publishing

• He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Hands, Bayonets

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1919). “The Conduct of Life: Nature and Other Essays”

• Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, War, Corn

• Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, War, Adversity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2631, Delphi Classics

• If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Freedom, War, Democracy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.142, Penguin

• If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Years, Cost

• Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Civilization, History

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.443, Harvard University Press

• The House
  
  ...She lays her beams in music,
  In music everyone,
  To the cadence of the whirling world
  Which dances around the sun-
  That so they shall not be displaced
  By lapses or by wars,
  But for the love of happy souls
  Outlive the newest stars.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Music, Stars

• The President proclaims war, and those Senators who dissent are not those who know better, but those who can afford to...Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Government, Editors

• Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination; knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Imagination, Soldier

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.132, Harvard University Press

• Nobody is glad in the gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system; and a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies, and hatreds of his competitors.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Regret, War

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Wallace E. Williams, Joseph Slater (1987). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men: seven lectures”, p.13, Harvard University Press

• War disorganizes, but it is to reorganize.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.732, Harvard University Press

• War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Men, Saving Private Ryan

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2970, Delphi Classics

• There are geniuses in trade as well as in war, or the state, or letters; and the reason why this or that man is fortunate is not to be told. It lies in the man: that is all anybody can tell you about it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Lying, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.207

• The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Personal Qualities, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “Works: English traits, Conduct of life”

• War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Men, Epidemics

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2970, Delphi Classics

• A state of war or anarchy, in which law has little force, is so far valuable, that it puts every man on trial. The man of principle is known as such, and even in the fury of faction is respected.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Character, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1202, Delphi Classics

• There is a tendency in things to right themselves, and the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Order, Rotten

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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