Quotes about War, page 5

After the War they started talking about contemporary musicians - I was 15 years old and followed the programmes passionately-the first things I heard by Webern and Schoenberg were about that time, just after the War.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about war

Bush's plans for war are a bizarre bad dream.

Quote by Richard Gere about war

I had these ideas of interpretation that went way beyond the standard Conservatoire limits. So I was at war with my piano teachers.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about war

I was a kid during the Second World War and even before that my parents had one of the first radio sets, and there was Radio London.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about war

Then I was at Darmstadt from 1954 onwards, and it was great. My first pieces were played straightaway. It was there that I met everybody who made up that generation that redefined post-War music.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about war

All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.

Quote by John Thomas Flynn about war

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

Quote by John Thomas Flynn about war

To say that we were not at war with Germany... is to close our eyes to the truth.

Quote by John Thomas Flynn about war

Our enemy sees us clearly. They will not start a war. They're worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win.

Quote by Mikhail Gorbachev about war

Communism has kind of been dead for a few years now. They are in the mind set of that's where their living, back in the Vietnam war I guess.

Quote by Larry Hagman about war

I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.

Quote by Larry Hagman about war

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about war

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international...

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about war

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about war

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about war

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about war

The 1st panacea of a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the 2nd is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; a permanent ruin.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about war

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about war

The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about war

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about war