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War Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Total war is the most humane in the long run.
- Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did.
- If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying.
- Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future. Happy work is best done by the man who takes his…
- War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always…
- In the ancient world individuals have sold themselves as slaves, in order to eat. So in society. Here is a witch-doctor who can save us…
- The ancient man approached God (or even the gods)as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are reversed. He is…
- We have on the one hand a desperate need; hunger, sickness, and the dread of war. We have, on the other, the conception of something…
- Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
- Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each…
- And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story…
- Perhaps civilization will never be safe until we care for something else more than we care for it. The hypothesis has certain facts to support…
- If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.
- We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits a war or…
- Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how would it be…
More War Quotes
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him. — William Shakespeare
- Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint. — William Shakespeare
- There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old. — William Shakespeare
- A man can die but once. — William Shakespeare
- Go, bid the soldiers shoot. — William Shakespeare
- I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways. — William Shakespeare