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War Quotes by Drew Gilpin Faust
- I think that the firepower of the Civil War, the numbers of bodies that were left to rot, the numbers of amputations in the Civil…
- Probably half the cases of Civil War dead were not identified. And so there was no way to let loved ones know, and there were…
- Americans in the Civil War period were very interested in Heaven and what it might be like, because they were having to face the fact…
- The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of a later time.
- As we have sought through the centuries to define ourselves as human beings and as nations through the prisms of history and literature, no small…
- For all its ubiquity and its universality, war offers the attraction of the extraordinary - the escape from the gray everyday, from the humdrum into…
- The seductiveness of war derives in part from its location on this boundary of the human, the inhuman, and the superhuman. It requires us to…
- We have been telling and hearing and reading war stories for millennia. Their endurance may lie in their impossibility; they can never be complete, for…
More War Quotes
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. — Isaac Asimov