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War Quotes by Erich Maria Remarque
- A hospital alone shows what war is.
- In any case, the bayonet isn't as important as it used to be. It's more usual now to go into the attack with hand-grenades and…
- The storm lashes us, out of the confusion of grey and yellow the hail of splinters whips forth the childlike cries of the wounded, and…
- The war has ruined us for everything.
- The room shall speak, it must catch me up and hold me, I want to feel that I belong here, I want to hearken and…
- All Quiet on the Western Front.
- How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all lies and of no…
- Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay/And the war would be over and done in a day." - All Quiet On…
- We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first…
- It's all rot that they put in the war-news about the good humour of the troops, how they are arranging dances almost before they are…
- This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those…
- You take it from me, we are losing the war because we can salute too well.
- Kat and Kropp get in an argument over the war as they rest from an hour’s worth of drill (occasioned by Tjaden’s not saluting a…
- We're no longer young men. We've lost any desire to conquer the world. We are refugees. We are fleeing from ourselves. From our lives. We…
- The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better off, and should…
- Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival with entrance-tickets and…
- Anyway the war is over so far as they are concerned. But to wait for dysentery is not much of a life either.
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
- John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only… — Isaac Asimov
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend… — Julian Assange
- War is what happens when language fails. — Margaret Atwood