- Enemies
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
War Quotes
War, remembered and reckoned with.
This topic pairs literary observation, such as a novelist's take on the social fabric depicted in a sprawling Tolstoy epic, with hard historical fact about the 1962 border conflict between China and India. Readers interested in broader historical context can visit History.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Great
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
- Nov 07, 2020
Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
- Light
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My mom was a history teacher, so I couldn't really avoid history when I was growing up. But we're very light on American history. We don't really have great opportunities to study both the Civil War and the Revolution.
- Life
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance.
- Know
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition.
- Only
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available.
- Limits
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
In Turkey, we have lived almost everything that could be lived; war and torture... The war concept was consumed to its limits. But there is only one way we have not tried: negotiations, peace, and talking.
- Peace
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.
- Gravely
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war.
- Moment
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in '82 and there were these bizarre wars, explained through mass media in ways that made no sense. I remember watching the Gulf War through night vision. That was sold and propagated as a showbusiness moment for the news.
- Patient
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?
- Failure
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.
- Courage
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.
- Life
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
When you have been born in a war like me, living in a war as a child, when you have been in wars as a war correspondent all your life - trust me! You develop a form of fatalism; you are always ready to die.
- Never
- |
- Nov 07, 2020