11 quotes
A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war. Now this war is not at all a nice war.
Wars I Have Seen (1945)
War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
Wars I Have Seen (1945)
A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.
Wars I Have Seen (1945)
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
Wars I Have Seen (1945)
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
Wars I Have Seen (1945)
Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
Wars I Have Seen (1945)
It often makes me know that as a cousin of mine once said about money, money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
Wars I Have Seen (1945)
The thing that is most interesting about government servants is that they believe what they are supposed to believe, they really do believe what they are supposed to believe.
Wars I Have Seen (1945)
It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realize the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.
Wars I Have Seen (1945)
The idea of enemies is awful it makes one stop remembering eternity and the fear of death. That is what enemies are. Possessions are the same as enemies only less so, they too make one forget eternity and the fear of death.
Wars I Have Seen (1945)
Even the propagandists on the radio find it very difficult to really say let alone believe that the world will be a happy place, of love and peace and plenty, and that the lion will lie down with the lamb and everybody will believe anybody.
Wars I Have Seen (1945)