Quotes
Quotes about War
"But, Rome, 'tis alone, with awful sway, to rule Mankind; and make the world obey; Disposing peace, and War, thy own Majestick Way. To tame the Proud, the fetter'd Slave to free; These are Imperial Arts, and worthy thee." -Anchises to Aeneas in the Underworld
We are moved by music in ways that words cannot describe, and such emotion can drive us to action - war, murder, love.
On atheism: I see it as a divinely bestowed state of other emptiness, a sort of dark night of the soul, into which the ultimate effulgence will rush unaware, and the unfaith become faith
Human pain meant but little in the Gulf War's visual grammar, a big feast of death to feed the cinecamera.
Life is death because it moves towards death from its very beginning
The poet's awareness of the circularity of life, in which things can be expressed in terms of their opposites, sometimes leads him to an aesthetic in which anything can be expressed as anything.
'It is warmth,' he thought, 'that we are finally faithful to.'
If there was no other reason for getting married that would be as good a reason as any, the way it keeps you warm in bed
Manhatten's an island, really, and it can't move outwards, so to speak, so it's got to move up instead.
Everything we've experienced on earth seems to point toward the permanence of pain
The lapsed Catholic is neither an optimist nor a pessimist. He is a realist and very wary of utopian politicians
There arose those winning life between two wars, born out of one, doomed food for the other
Anthony Burgess A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunities for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults. The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
A character in Evelyn Waugh's Put Out More Flags said that the difference between prewar and postwar life was that, prewar, if one thing went wrong the day was ruined; postwar, if one thing went right the day would be made. America is a prewar country, psychologically unprepared for one thing to go wrong.
Perhaps every dystopian vision is a figure of the present, with certain features sharpened and exaggerated to a point of moral and a warning
War becomes time, and time logic on buried premises
Words disintegrate; war is words
Life is simple. Desperately so. Beware of making it complex
I saw my paper as the body I once had, I longed towards it. I was fearful, though, of disfiguring it with blots and scratches
For the first time it was made clear to me that language was no vehicle of soothing prettiness to warm cold castles that waited for spring ... but a potency of sharp knives and brutal hammers
... he had rested and tried not to think of the agonies already sprining like warts from the long poem he had to write
We like to kid ourselves that people are good enough and wise enough to be aware of their responsibilities
It stands to reason you've got to have a war. Not because anybody wants it, of course, but because there's an army. An army here and an army there and armies all over the shop. Armies is for wars and war is for armies
You're signing your own death warrant just by existing
We want peace and we want war. The workers want to be left in peace to wage war against the bosses
