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.
War stories aren't really anything more than stories about people anyway.
The man who shouts wins battles; the quiet man wins the war.
In global warming and pollution we eclipse, in lies and wars to nuclear apocalypse
And Ronan was everything that was left: molten eyes and a smile made for war.
Ever since our enemies have refused to listen to and obey our Führer, the whole war has gone badly.
Krishna showing his vishvarupa universal form to Arjuna before the Kurukshetra War.
The United States should not be involved in fighting nuclear-armed Israel’s war with Iran.