Famous Quotes

"We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves."

Albert Camus on War

More quotes about War

• "He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice."

  Albert Einstein on War

• "One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on War

• "The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."

  Albert Einstein on War

• "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

  Dwight D. Eisenhower on War

• "We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender."

  Winston Churchill on War

More quotes by Albert Camus

• "Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face."

• "The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone."

• "Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful."

• "A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession."

• "Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others."