“Everything comes in circles. […] The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It’s all been done before, and will be again.”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.”
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
“We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”
“If we don’t end war, war will end us.”
“When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.”
“War is the science of destruction.”
“War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.”
“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.”
“War is a defeat for humanity.”
“The first casualty when war comes is truth.”
“Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.”
“Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.”
“War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.”
“The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.”
“War… is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.”
“War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueller it is, the sooner it will be over.”
“There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare.”
“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
“War is fear cloaked in courage.”
“There was never a good war, or a bad peace.”
See also: https://dimidesan.com/war-poetry-by-miguel-hernandez/
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