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War Quotes by Ernest Hemingway
- There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came through during the…
- There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory,…
- Until the dead are buried they change somewhat in appearance each day. The color change in Caucasian races is from white to yellow, to yellow-green,…
- The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.
- War is a crime. Ask the Infantry and ask the dead.
- To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.
- When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you. . . . Then…
- The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bull ring…
- No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die,…
- In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.
- Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part. In war all you have to do is not worry and know how to read…
- No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.
- There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything…
- The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent…
- Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
- In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
- Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can…
- You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.
- Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
- For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
- They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet…
- I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition,…
- The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that…
- It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war." Defeat is worse." I do not believe it," Passini said still respectfully.…
- (World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the…
More War Quotes
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- 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