First Quote by Paul Keating

Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars,

— Pat Barker

What distinguished the First World War from all wars before it was the massive power of the antagonists.

— Paul Keating

“THE FIRST WORLD WAR was a tragic and unnecessary conflict. Unnecessary because the train of events that led to its outbreak might have been…

— John Keegan

European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The…

— Virginia Postrel

The first 'world' war was in reality the last European war fought by globally significant European powers.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

“It is incontrovertible that the First World War was a catastrophe for Europe. It remains hard to see, however, by what means its statesmen…

— Max Hastings

School-leavers unfortunately will come away thinking the First World War consisted simply of 'going over the top' on the Western Front to slaughter in…

— Antony Beevor

I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellowmen. Our…

— John Fowles

There is no doubt that the course and character of the feared 'European war'... will become the first world war in the full sense…

— Ernst Haeckel

All wars derive from lack of empathy: the incapacity of one to understand and accept the likeness or difference of another. Whether in nations…

— Marya Mannes

War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to tribe, church, flag or…

— Arthur Koestler

“The Great War (1914-1918) – no one knew then it would be the first of two – transformed the world in ways that no…

— Paul Brody