War Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

War is a crime. Ask the Infantry and ask the dead.

— Ernest Hemingway

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

— Ernest Hemingway

In war, one cannot say what one feels.

— Ernest Hemingway

“To win a war, we must kill our enemies.”

— Ernest Hemingway

War is not won by victory.

— Ernest Hemingway

The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.

— Ernest Hemingway

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

— Ernest Hemingway

“In the fall the war was always there, but we did not go to it anymore.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.

— Ernest Hemingway

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

— Ernest Hemingway

And the ones who would not make war? Can they stop it?

— Ernest Hemingway

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

— Ernest Hemingway

But in modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason.

— Ernest Hemingway

“The priest was good but dull. The officers were not good but dull. The King was good but dull. The wine was…

— Ernest Hemingway

“For three years I looked forward very childishly to the war ending at Christmas. But now I look forward till when our…

— Ernest Hemingway

“But these, wide-finned in silver, roaring, the light mist of their propellers in the sun, these do not move like sharks. They…

— Ernest Hemingway

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Tolstoi made the writing of Stephen Crane on the Civil War seem like the brilliant imagining of a sick boy who had…

— Ernest Hemingway

I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at…

— Ernest Hemingway

“It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things…

— Ernest Hemingway

“In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war, but we did not completely trust anyone.”

— Ernest Hemingway

The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals…

— Ernest Hemingway

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Be a damn fire eater now. He'd seen it in the war work the same way. More of a change than any…

— Ernest Hemingway

As in no other form of lute or combat, the conditions are such; the winner takes nothing, neither his ease, nor his…

— Ernest Hemingway

We think. We are not peasants. We are mechanics. But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. Everybody…

— Ernest Hemingway

“It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I'm not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I…

— Ernest Hemingway

The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in…

— Ernest Hemingway

War is no longer made by simply analyzed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual…

— Ernest Hemingway

“He told me how he had first met her during the war and then lost her and won her back, and about…

— Ernest Hemingway

“You had to have these peasant leaders quickly in this sort of war and a real peasant leader might be a little…

— Ernest Hemingway

“But you have no house and no courtyard to your no-house, he thought. You have no family but a brother who goes…

— Ernest Hemingway

“I hope I am not for the killing, Anselmo was thinking. I think that after the war there will have to be…

— Ernest Hemingway

When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you. .…

— Ernest Hemingway

“You felt, in spite of all bureaucracy and inefficiency and party strife something that was like the feeling you expected to have…

— Ernest Hemingway

Until the dead are buried they change somewhat in appearance each day. The color change in Caucasian races is from white to…

— Ernest Hemingway

“This was the greatest gift that he had, the talent that fitted him for war; that ability not to ignore but to…

— Ernest Hemingway

Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.

— Ernest Hemingway

One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.

— Ernest Hemingway

“Are you a communist?" "No I am an anti-fascist" "For a long time?" "Since I have understood fascism.”

— Ernest Hemingway