WO I quotes:
- “A few, a few, too few for drums and yells,
May creep back, silent, to still village wells
Up half-known roads.”
- "Shall Life renew these bodies? Of a truth
All death will he annul, all tears assuage?
Or fill these void veins full again with youth
And wash with an immortal water age?”
- "Move him into the sun —
Gently its touch awoke him once,
At home, whispering of fields unsown.
Always it woke him, even in France,
Until this morning and this snow.”
- "I am fed up with war and the clamor for war and with the perennial armaments. It is high time that the great nations calmed down again and occupied themselves with peaceful pursuits, or there will be an explosion which no one desires and which will be to the detriment of all."
- "A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one."
- "My center gives way, my right is pushed back, situation excellent, I am attacking."
War quotes:
- "One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. "
- "War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children. "
- "Neither enemy faces, nor the mothers that love them, come to mind when one is thinking of nothing but endeavouring to survive. Philosophising about war is useless under fire. "
- "Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. "
- "The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on."
- "All the arms we need are for hugging."
- "If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything."
- "What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world."
[ bericht aangepast op 11 mei 2010 - 14:38 ]
If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.