Famous Quotes

"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny."

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on War

More quotes about War

• "He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice."

  Albert Einstein on War

• "One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on War

• "The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."

  Albert Einstein on War

• "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

  Dwight D. Eisenhower on War

• "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."

  Winston Churchill on War

More quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• "It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed."

• "I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever."

• "Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation."

• "The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature."

• "It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones."