--- title: "2 Defiance Quotes By Siegfried Sassoon" description: "2 Defiance quotes by Siegfried Sassoon. Plus more from Siegfried Sassoon and more Defiance sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/73d/siegfried-sassoon-10445_acting_i-am-making-this-statement-as-an-act-of_2464992.jpg" --- > [I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it. I am a soldier, convinced that I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siegfried-sassoon/i-am-making-this-statement-as-an-act-of-wilful-defiance-of-military/) [Siegfried Sassoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siegfried-sassoon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/73d/siegfried-sassoon-10445_acting_i-am-making-this-statement-as-an-act-of_2464992.jpg) > [I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siegfried-sassoon/i-am-making-this-statement-as-an-act-of-wilful-defiance-of-military-2/) [Siegfried Sassoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siegfried-sassoon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a50/siegfried-sassoon-10445_act_i-am-making-this-statement-as-an-act-of_3188973.jpg) ## Other authors on Defiance - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-thomas-jefferson-90435.jpg) Thomas Jefferson 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/defiance/thomas-jefferson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-howard-zinn-42481.jpg) Howard Zinn 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/defiance/howard-zinn/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-annette-lu-13893.jpg) C.J. Redwine 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/defiance/c-j-redwine/) ## More by Siegfried Sassoon > [I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siegfried-sassoon/i-believe-that-the-purpose-for-which-i-and-my-fellow-soldiers-entered/) [Siegfried Sassoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siegfried-sassoon/) > [Who's this—alone with stone and sky? It's only my old dog and I— It's only him; it's only me; Alone with stone and grass…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siegfried-sassoon/who-s-this-alone-with-stone-and-sky-it-s-only-my-old-dog-and-i-it-s/) [Siegfried Sassoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siegfried-sassoon/) > [And the wind upon its way whispered the boughs of May, And touched the nodding peony flowers to bid them waken.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siegfried-sassoon/and-the-wind-upon-its-way-whispered-the-boughs-of-may-and-touched-the/) [Siegfried Sassoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siegfried-sassoon/) > [“Suicide in the trenches: I knew a simple soldier boy Who grinned at life in empty joy, Slept soundly through the lonesome dark, And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siegfried-sassoon/suicide-in-the-trenches-i-knew-a-simple-soldier-boy-who-grinned-at/) [Siegfried Sassoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siegfried-sassoon/) > [The visionless officialized fatuityThat once kept Europe safe for Perpetuity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siegfried-sassoon/the-visionless-officialized-fatuitythat-once-kept-europe-safe-for/) [Siegfried Sassoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siegfried-sassoon/) > [“I died in hell. They called it Passchendaele.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siegfried-sassoon/i-died-in-hell-they-called-it-passchendaele/) [Siegfried Sassoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siegfried-sassoon/) > [“I am banished from the patient men who fight. They smote my heart to pity, built my pride. Shoulder to aching shoulder, side by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siegfried-sassoon/i-am-banished-from-the-patient-men-who-fight-they-smote-my-heart-to/) [Siegfried Sassoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siegfried-sassoon/) > [December stillness, teach me through your trees That loom along the west, one with the land, The veiled evangel of your mysteries. While nightfall,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siegfried-sassoon/december-stillness-teach-me-through-your-trees-that-loom-along-the/) [Siegfried Sassoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siegfried-sassoon/) > [I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siegfried-sassoon/i-am-not-protesting-against-the-conduct-of-the-war-but-against-the/) [Siegfried Sassoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siegfried-sassoon/) > [“Dim, gradual thinning of the shapeless gloom Shudders to drizzling daybreak that reveals Disconsolate men who stamp their sodden boots And turn dulled, sunken…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siegfried-sassoon/dim-gradual-thinning-of-the-shapeless-gloom-shudders-to-drizzling/) [Siegfried Sassoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siegfried-sassoon/) > [“In 1917 I was only beginning to learn that life, for the majority of the population, is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds, culminating…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siegfried-sassoon/in-1917-i-was-only-beginning-to-learn-that-life-for-the-majority-of/) [Siegfried Sassoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siegfried-sassoon/) > [“Phantoms of thought and memory thinned and fled.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siegfried-sassoon/phantoms-of-thought-and-memory-thinned-and-fled/) [Siegfried Sassoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siegfried-sassoon/) > [Oh yes, I know the way to heaven was easy. We found the little kingdom of our passion that all can share who walk…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siegfried-sassoon/oh-yes-i-know-the-way-to-heaven-was-easy-we-found-the-little-kingdom/) [Siegfried Sassoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siegfried-sassoon/) > [“I keep such music in my brain No din this side of death can quell; Glory exulting over pain, And beauty, garlanded in hell.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siegfried-sassoon/i-keep-such-music-in-my-brain-no-din-this-side-of-death-can-quell/) [Siegfried Sassoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siegfried-sassoon/) > [And it's been proved that soldiers don't go mad Unless they lose control of ugly thoughts That drive them out to jabber among the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siegfried-sassoon/and-it-s-been-proved-that-soldiers-don-t-go-mad-unless-they-lose/) [Siegfried Sassoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siegfried-sassoon/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/defiance/siegfried-sassoon/#itemlist", "name": "2 Defiance Quotes By Siegfried Sassoon", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it. 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