We fear the calm more than the storm.
Quotes on war
All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport — in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy.”
[Quoted in Socialism and Foreign Policy and War and the Liberal Conscience]
In the horrors of war, please bring me peace.
I will follow anyone… and remind everyone… of the pain of the Yazidi women
These memories sustained him, but not so easily. Too often they reminded him of where he was when he last summoned them. They lay on the far side of a great divide in time, as significant as B.C. and A.D. Before prison, before the war, before the sight of a corpse became a banality.
You must not blame us scientists for the use which war technicians have put our discoveries.
During the war some of the country’s sharpest minds had looked as if they had been dragged through a hedge backwards.
As long as man is alive, he will always deem himself to be the light of the world, and consider his enemies as the darkness. And they will be thinking like that on both sides of the front.
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The only sign of war was a cloud of dust migrating from east to west. It looked through the windows, trying to find a way inside, and as it simultaneously thickened and spread, it turned the trail of humans into apparitions. There were no people on the street anymore. They were rumors carrying bags.