Read quote“When I see photos of these destroyed cities of Germany, for me it’s not depressive, it’s beautiful.”
About War
Conflict, peace, violence, and the human consequences of warfare.
The collection
Words on War
Read quote“In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war.”
Read quote“It is almost impossible to find a Royal Air Force squadron without some Canadians in it.”
Read quote“The Russians dashed on towards that thin red line tipped with steel.”
Read quote“I shall call upon my fellow women. We will fight the white men. We will fight until the last of us falls in the battlefields.”
Read quote“Artists do not have enmities with anyone. Artists do not like war. War is not good for any country.”
Read quote“Allah bu millete bir daha İstiklal Marşı yazdırmasın.”
Read quote“There is really no difference between dropping a bomb and killing an innocent man.”
Read quote“Today we have to do or die. We have to give our life for the nation today.”
Read quote“War destroys all human values and is the greatest danger to everything which human beings desire and cherish.”
Read quote“One missionary can do more for peace than 10,000 troops of soldiers.”
Read quote“I made it from the pin of a hand grenade - from the first grenade I ever used in training.”
Read quote“România şi-a câştigat titlurile sale de nobleţă pe câmpul războiului; ... are dreptul de a face intrarea sa în lume cu fruntea sus.”
Read quote““Magyar, to arms! thy country calls!””
Read quote“Arms are for hugging, not for killing.”
Read quote“But for the war, I would have been the richest man that ever lived.”
Read quote“the look something between fear and defiance which we have all seen so often, and which will always remain in my memory as typical of our gallant old cobbers 'the Diggers'”
Read quote“The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.”
Read quote“My life began with the First World War … and since, every day of my existence has been a struggle.”
Read quote“the vilest of professions, that of killing men.”
