But I wanted my art to scream to the world about what Algeria went through during the war.
War Quotes
Two of the best-known lines about war are flagged as misattributed, and both stories are worth knowing.
“In war, truth is the first casualty” is credited to Aeschylus, and sometimes to the US senator Hiram Johnson. It is not in his speeches. The first recorded use Wikiquote found is by Philip Snowden in July 1916, introducing a book by E. D. Morel, and he wrote “it has been said”, so it was probably already going around. Samuel Johnson made the same point in The Idler in 1758, about “the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages”.
“Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than of war” is credited to Homer, and it is a misquotation of the Iliad (Book 13). In the original, most men prefer those things to war. It is the Trojans who can never get enough of fighting.
Where was Michael Collins during the Great War? He would have been worth a dozen brass hats.
What we are seeing is not the war in Iraq. What we're seeing is slices of the war in Iraq.
Listen, the weather is just like Hillary's explanation for her war vote: we just don't know, do we?
The popular anti-war slogan from the 1960’s says it best: “Make love, not war.”
De facto, Britain has entered the war. I consider Britain is now a legitimate target for us.