Feb 17, 2010
Quotes by William Shakespeare
"Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more: Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace ther's nothing so becomes a man, As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'ed rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect. I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon ... Read More
Jan 24, 2010
Quotes by Wilfred Owen
"Dullness best solves, The tease and doubt of shelling, And Chance's strange arithmetic, Comes simpler than the reckoning of their shilling. They keep no check on armies' decimation. Happy the soldier home, with not a notion, How somewhere, every dawn, some men attack, And many sights are drained. What passing-bells for those who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns".
Quotes by George Orwell
"War is war. The only good human being is a dead one".
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Dec 27, 2009
Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
"We have met a on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that the nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate-we cannot consecrate-we cannot hallow - this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our ... Read More
Nov 23, 2009
Quotes by Mao Tse-Tung
"Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed".
Quotes by Malcolm X
"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom".
Quotes by Don McCullin
"What's the point of getting killed if you've got the wrong exposure".
Quotes by Dr John McCrae
"In Flanders fields the poppies blow, Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place. If ye break faith with us who die, We shall not sleep, though poppies grow, ... Read More