Quotes about war
war black mind
For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit. Ernie Pyle
war rain boys
I love the infantry because they are the underdogs. They are the mud-rain-frost-and-wind boys. They have no comforts, and they even learn to live without the necessities. And in the end they are the guys that wars can't be won without.
war taken history
(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 writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought. Ernest Hemingway
war nice wine
It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people.
war race color
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, to black. If left long enough in the heat the flesh comes to resemble coal-tar, especially where it has been broken or torn, and it has quite a visible tarlike iridescence. The dead grow larger each day until sometimes they become quite too big for their uniforms, filling these until they seem blown tight enough to burst. The individual members may increase in girth to an unbelievable extent and faces fill as taut and globular as balloons.
war book writing
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 war was in poetry. One reason for this is that poets are not arrested as quickly as prose writers.
war believe home
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. "What is defeat? You go home.
war years forever
Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.
war years one-day
Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times. All of war is that way.
war worry maps
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 a map and co-ordinates.
war feels
In war, one cannot say what one feels.
war book battle
One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.
war winning tolls
To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.
war boys men
When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you. . . . Then when you are badly wounded the first time you lose that illusion and you know it can happen to you. After being severely wounded two weeks before my nineteenth birthday I had a bad time until I figured out that nothing could happen to me that had not happened to all men before me. Whatever I had to do men had always done. If they had done it then I could do it too and the best thing was not to worry about it.
war writing life-and-death
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 and I wanted very much to go to Spain where I could study it. I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.
war fall book
In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.
war men maintenance
The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.
war want said
You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.
war victory
War is not won by victory.
war political ruins
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 ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
war
And the ones who would not make war? Can they stop it?
war crime infantry
War is a crime. Ask the Infantry and ask the dead.
war latin america
The United States is using its war on drugs as an excuse to expand its control over Latin America. Evo Morales
war hero president
Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most Ethel Merman
war fighting giving
All disasters stem from us. Why is there a war? Perhaps because now and then I might be inclined to snap at my neighbour. Because I and my neighbour and everyone else do not have enough love. Yet we could fight war and all its excrescences by releasing each day, the love which is shackled inside us, and giving it a chance to live. Etty Hillesum
war men enemy
The battle is going very heavily against us. We're being crushed by the enemy weight. We are facing very difficult days, perhaps the most difficult that a man can undergo Erwin Rommel
war men world
To every man of us, Tobruk was a symbol of British resistance and we were now going to finish with it for good.
war water enemy
The enemy must be annihilated before he reaches our main battlefield. We must stop him in the water, destroying all his equipment while it is still afloat!
war military exercise
War makes extremely heavy demands on the soldier's strength and nerves. For this reason, make heavy demands on your men in peacetime exercises.
war tired men
Which would your men rather be, tired, or dead?
war hero world
Classic music somehow changed, and it changed between the first and the second world wars, and somehow what happened was that the hero that had been the composer, the hero now was the performer, and especially the conductor. Esa-Pekka Salonen
war world classical-music
The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the [World War II] , and the whole industry became more backward-looking.
warrior men forever
If we were bees, ants, or Lacedaemonian| warriors, to whom personal fear does not exist and cowardice is the most shameful thing in the world, warring would go on forever. But luckily we are only men — and cowards. Erwin Schrodinger