Quotes by War A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and air marshals, then the brigadiers, then a bit of a gap and the colonels and wing commanders and passed-over majors, then a steady trickle of captains and lieutenants. As they get older and rarer, so the soldiers are mythologised and grow ever more heroic, until finally drummer boys and under-age privates are venerated and laurelled with honours like ancient field marshals. There is something touching about that. A. A. Gill boys war peace All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war. A. A. Gill men philosophy war It is said about Lord Buddha sadaya-hrdaya darsita-pasu-ghatam. He saw the whole human race going to hell by this animal killing. So he appeared to teach ahimsa, nonviolence, being compassionate on the animals and human beings. In the Christian religion also, it is clearly stated, 'Thou shall not kill'. So everywhere animal killing is restricted. In no religion the unnecessary killing of animals is allowed. But nobody is caring. The killing process is increasing, and so are the reactions. Every ten years you will find a war. These are the reactions. A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada caring christian war To be nonviolent to human beings and to be a killer or enemy of the poor animals is Satan's philosophy. In this age there is always enmity against poor animals, and therefore the poor creatures are always anxious. The reaction of the poor animals is being forced on human society, and therefore there is always strain of cold or hot war between men, individually, collectively or nationally. A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada men philosophy war Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army. A. E. Coppard atheist war father Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young. A. E. Housman war life lying I had an attack of the gout two days before pulling out, and I went limping off to the war instead of coming limping back from it. A. J. Liebling gout war two To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris. A. J. Liebling hero war children There is no way to peace. Peace is the way. A. J. Muste ubuntu war peace The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson? A. J. Muste lessons war thinking We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life. A. J. Muste ubuntu war peace War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. A. J. Muste outcomes war way Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it. A. J. Muste war peace dirty No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic. A. J. P. Taylor political war peace The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight. A. J. P. Taylor army war peace Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions. A. J. P. Taylor bismarck fighting war Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one. A. J. P. Taylor able fighting war Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness. A. J. P. Taylor witty war history Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914. A. J. P. Taylor war world firsts No war is inevitable until it breaks out. A. J. P. Taylor break-out war peace 1234567891011»
