Demoralization Quotes:

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: Military, War, Enemy, Demoralizing, Sabotage

Demoralization of the target audience is yet another step in successful mind control.

- Joost Meerloo

topic: Successful, Mind, Target, Mind Control, Demoralization

What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.

- Florence Nightingale

topic: Selfish, War, Blood, Intoxication, Famine

The topdog may win the game of force. But not the moral issue - and when that dawns upon him and his allies, change of consciousness sets in, and demoralization starts thawing the frozen heart. The game is over.

- Johan Galtung

source: Johan Galtung, Carl G. Jacobsen, Kai Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen (2002). “Searching for peace: the road to TRANSCEND”, Pluto Pr

topic: Heart, Winning, Games, Moral Issues, Demoralization

Create accomplishment from disappointments. Demoralization and disappointment are two of the surest going stones to achievement.

- Dale Carnegie

topic: Disappointment, Two, Accomplishment, Demoralization

No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

source: Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1934, Volume 3”, p.420, Best Books on

topic: Country, Order, Unemployment, Demoralization, Human Resources

The current demoralization of the art world is attributable at least in part to museum interference, ideological and practical, with ongoing creation in art.

- Harold Rosenberg

source: Harold Rosenberg (1983). “Art on the Edge: Creators and Situations”, p.283, University of Chicago Press

topic: Art, Museums, Ongoing, Demoralization, Art World

We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.

- Charlton Ogburn

source: "Merrill's Marauders: The truth about an incredible adventure" by Charlton Ogburn, harpers.org. January 1957.

topic: Teamwork, Later In Life, Creating, Arbiter, Reorganization

We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. Presumably the plans for our employment were being changed. I was to learn later in life that, perhaps because we are so good at organizing, we tend as a nation to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.

- Charlton Ogburn

source: "Merrill’s Marauders" by Charlton Ogburn, harpers.org. January 1957.

topic: Teamwork, Progress And Change, Creating, Reorganization, Demoralization

Some who have been perfectly healthy and able to bear children have avoided this responsibility, and in doing so have resorted to the use of harmful practices and devices resulting often in physical injury to the wife and demoralization to both parties. Some have wondered if the Church would approve such practices. Of course it never has and never could.

- Mark E. Petersen

topic: Children, Party, Responsibility, Demoralization, Avoided

A person who has been seduced by the consumer value system, whose identity is dissolved in an amalgam of the accouterments trappings of mass civilization, and who has no roots in the order of being, no sense of responsibility for anything higher than his own personal survival, is a demoralized person. The system depends on this demoralization, deepens it, is in fact a projection of it into society.

- Vaclav Havel

topic: Responsibility, Civilization, Roots, Value Systems, Demoralization

The whole history of man is continuous proof of the maxim that to divest one's methods of ethical concepts means to sink into the depths of utter demoralization.

- Emma Goldman

source: Emma Goldman (2003). “My Disillusionment in Russia”, p.261, Courier Corporation

topic: Mean, Men, Depth, Demoralization

Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter. We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.

- Zbigniew Brzezinski

topic: Breakup, Regret, War, Mujahideen, Demoralization

War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of peace and friendship with all mankind.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.236, Algora Publishing

topic: Peace, War, Blessing, Demoralization

The inspiration of a single book has made preachers, poets, philosophers, authors, and statesmen. On the other hand, the demoralization of a single book has sometimes made infidels, profligates, and criminals.

- Orison Swett Marden

topic: Book, Inspiration, Hands, Infidel, Demoralization