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Poul Anderson on Veterans Day

1926–2001 United States

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Your trouble is, the Old Faith reinforces every wish to kill that war has roused in you.

The People of the Wind (1973)

Mortal combat corrupts, and war corrupts absolutely.

There Will Be Time (1972)

That is forgotten, their wars and their deeds and their very speech. Wisdom lasts. It is what I have sought across the world.

Well, everybody got stupid now and then, especially in war.

Then they died.
And other men came after them. Wars flamed up and burned out; the howling peoples dwelt in smashed cities and kindled their fires with books.

The Enemy Stars (1959)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Poul Anderson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.