War Life Quotes
- My belief in the growth and permanence of democracy is undimmed. I know that the people will cast off the new dictatorship as they did… — Sylvia Pankhurst
- After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig. — Chinua Achebe
- The idea that after this war life will continue 'normally' or even that culture might be 'rebuilt' - as if the rebuilding of culture were… — Theodor Adorno
- Because civilization isn't a thing that you build and then there it is, you have it forever. It needs to be built constantly, recreated daily.… — Steven Galloway
- It's a curse - this not wanting to look on naked realities. Until the war, life was never more real to me than a shadow… — Margaret Mitchell