War Quotes
Those who fought, those who protested, and those who survived reflect on humanity's darkest impulse.
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"The war within ourselves mirrors the wars without."Hart Crane
"War is the failure of imagination."Hart Crane
"War is the failure of wisdom."Hilda Doolittle
"Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go sleep-walking through the streets, like lunatics."Kurt Vonnegut
"War is not an excuse to bury the truth."William Carlos Williams
"War teaches us what we should have learned through love."Hart Crane
"What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?"Allen Ginsberg
"War is the failure of imagination."Allen Ginsberg
"War is the failure of human imagination."Hilda Doolittle
"I wish they'd never invented the atom bomb."Jack Kerouac
"War is the negation of everything we claim to believe."Amy Lowell
"War leaves scars on generations."Amy Lowell
"War teaches us nothing but the necessity of peace."William Carlos Williams
"War is the failure of peace."Fannie Hurst
"War is the failure of imagination and the triumph of fear."Hart Crane
"War is a failure of human wisdom."Amy Lowell
"War destroys what poetry attempts to preserve."Hilda Doolittle
"War and poetry represent opposite impulses of humanity."Hilda Doolittle
"War is the failure of civilization."Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"War teaches us the value of peace."Mary Wilkins Freeman
"There never was a war that was cold."Marianne Moore
"We are not merely fighting for survival; we are fighting for the right to exist fully."Edna St. Vincent Millay
"War is the great purifier of nations."Edna St. Vincent Millay
"War teaches us what peace could achieve if we devoted similar resources."Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"War begins in the hearts of those who cannot tolerate difference."Amy Lowell
"War is the failure of imagination to find another way."Fannie Hurst
"Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead!"Edna St. Vincent Millay
"War is the failure of human understanding."Fannie Hurst
"War reveals the worst and best in human nature."Amy Lowell
"War teaches us what peace is worth."Amy Lowell