Famous Quotes

"My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success."

Herbert Read 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 Herbert Read

• "The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair."

• "To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism."

• "Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence."

• "To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism."

• "The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough."