War Quotes by C.S. Lewis

15 War quotes by C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis approached war with both intellect and heart. Fifteen reflections reveal his blend of theological insight and human empathy, shedding light on the ethical dilemmas that arise when nations clash.

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“Shasta was dreadfully frightened. But it suddenly came into his head, "If you funk this, you'll funk every battle all your life.…

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“The effect of modern war is to eliminate retrogressive types, while sparing the technocracy and increasing its hold upon public affairs.”

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“Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future.”

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“Ever since I served as an infantryman in the First World War I had a great dislike of people who themselves in…

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“Their history is largely a record of crime, war, disease, and terror, with just sufficient happiness interposed to give them, while it…

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“[A]ll that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find…

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“[N]early all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—[is] the long terrible story of man trying to…

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“In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it. If you…

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“Christianity agrees with Dualism that this universe is at war. But it does not think this is a war between independent powers.…

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“Hence the uneasiness which they arouse in those who, for whatever reason, wish to keep us wholly imprisoned in the immediate conflict.…

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“We expect a solution of the unemployment problem, the cancer problem, the housing problem, the problems of currency, of war, of education.…

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“Once he was in the street the battle was won. I showed him a newsboy shouting the midday paper, and a No.…

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“I know that’s how they talk. But if there’s a real war why don’t they do anything? Don’t you see that if…

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“To us a human is primarily food; our aim is the absorption of its will into ours, the increase of our own…

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“Oxford It is well that there are palaces of peace And discipline and dreaming and desire, Lest we forget our heritage and…

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