Thursday, 9 April 2026

SOME FAMOUS QUOTES ON WARS

 

SOME FAMOUS QUOTES ON WARS         

            Wars are not new. They have been there since the creation of the world. The difference is in their weapons and horrors. In the beginning, there were either no weapons or they were as simple as sticks and stones. Today there are various types of destructive weapons and bombs including nuclear and hydrogen bombs.

            The means of transportation and communication have also become awfully fast. Now the parties engaged in wars can have videos of all the actions taking place.

                Personally, I believe in the permanent abolition of war and the non-manufacturing of all sorts of destructive weapons.

                Wars should be declared not only  punishable crimes but also  unpardonable sins.

                  Given below are some famous war quotes.

1.     If war has its chivalry and its pageantry, it has also its hideousness and its demoniac woe. Bullets respect not beauty. They tear out the eye, and shatter the jaw, and rend the cheek. ---American clergy J .S. C. Abbott.

2.     War is the business of barbarians. ---Former Emperor of France  Napoleon Bonaparte.

3.     War is nothing less than a temporary repeal of the principles of virtue.---English clergy Robert Hall.  

4.     War comes today as the result of one of three causes: either actual or threatened wrong by one country to another. Or suspicion by one country that another intends to do it wrong, or from bitterness of feeling. ----American lawyer Elihu Root.

5.     Only the dead have seen the end of war. Greek philosopher Plato.

6.     I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. ---Former American President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

7.     War is a defeat for humanity.---Pope John Paul II.

8.     Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. ---Herbert Hoover, 31st President of United States.

9.     Militarism and warfare are childish things if they are not more horrible than anything childish can be. They must become things of the past.----English novelist and historian  H. G. Wells.

10.                         As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.----English writer Oscar Wilde.                 

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G.R. Kanwal

9th April 2026

 

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