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.
Ward: "The victory over all the afflictions that befall you, is, to keep silence."
Ward: "If you take little account of yourself, you will have peace, wherever you live."
Ward: "If you are silent, you will have peace wherever you live."
The war on our bodies as women must take first priority in this continent
Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.
Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.
People who don’t read are brutes. It is better to write than to make war, isn’t it?
War is never anything less than accelerated technological change. (p. 102)