Quotes
Quotes about War
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.
When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour toward creatures, all men were Nazis.
He acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
One kind word can warm three winter months.
If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
Conversation, n. A fair to the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.
Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.
A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.
Beware the fury of the patient man.
I will not play at tug o' war.
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
Anyone can look for fashion in a boutique or history in a museum. The creative explorer looks for history in a hardware store and fashion in an airport.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Impiety, n. Your irreverence toward my deity.
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over its government.
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
If only I may grow: firmer, simpler,âquieter, warmer.
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the sense shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
