Famous Quotes

"Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain."

Elizabeth Bowen 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 Elizabeth Bowen

• "Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies."

• "There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone."

• "Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone."

• "Education is not so important as people think."

• "Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience."