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
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"War is the failure of imagination."
Hart Crane
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"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
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"War is not an excuse to bury the truth."
William Carlos Williams
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"War teaches us what we should have learned through love."
Hart Crane
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"What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?"
Allen Ginsberg
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"War is the failure of imagination."
Allen Ginsberg
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"War is the failure of human imagination."
Hilda Doolittle
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"I wish they'd never invented the atom bomb."
Jack Kerouac
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"War is the negation of everything we claim to believe."
Amy Lowell
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"War leaves scars on generations."
Amy Lowell
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"War teaches us nothing but the necessity of peace."
William Carlos Williams
"War is the failure of peace."
Fannie Hurst
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"War is the failure of imagination and the triumph of fear."
Hart Crane
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"War is a failure of human wisdom."
Amy Lowell
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"War destroys what poetry attempts to preserve."
Hilda Doolittle
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"War and poetry represent opposite impulses of humanity."
Hilda Doolittle
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"War is the failure of civilization."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"War teaches us the value of peace."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
"There never was a war that was cold."
Marianne Moore
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"We are not merely fighting for survival; we are fighting for the right to exist fully."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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"War is the great purifier of nations."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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"War teaches us what peace could achieve if we devoted similar resources."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"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
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"Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead!"
Edna St. Vincent Millay
"War is the failure of human understanding."
Fannie Hurst
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"War reveals the worst and best in human nature."
Amy Lowell
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"War teaches us what peace is worth."
Amy Lowell