Famous Quotes

"After every war someone has to tidy up."

Wislawa Szymborska 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 Wislawa Szymborska

• "Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die."

• "All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination."

• "Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life."

• "Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality."

• "I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet."