Ernest Hemingway Quotes
Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.
Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus. This famous quotation has been echoed in virtually every language and every country of the world. However, see Ernest Hemingway for a counter view.
Lincoln was opposing the Mexican War.
On October 31, 1803, Tripolitan forces captured the ship Philadelphia and imprisoned the whole crew. The Pasha (provincial governor) of Tripoli, Yusef Karamanli demanded that the United States not only pay a ransom for the prisoners but an annual tribute to Tripoli.
This line was used in the WPA Federal Theater Project. The play was closed down, because the State Department was distressed that the Federal Theater quoting heads of State might be insulting to the world leaders. Mussolini was another character in the play and he was depicted as the boorish thug that he turned out to be. It was that which offended the government officials who closed the show before it could open. FDR used a similar line 6 years later. See {32529} . Dolores Ibarruri in the Spanish Civil War is quoted with a similar phrase at about the same time. See {604321}
This is one of the most idealistic and hopeful statements ever constructed by man. It was ironic that UNESCO which began with so much principle and hope became corrupt and even moved into the political arena taking positions on international disputes which was at odds with the Security Council.
Drumbo was morally opposed to war. He also refused to name Hollywood communists to Congressional Committees during the Red Scare. He was then blacklisted from his occupation, screen writing.
“Volk” loosely translated means “the people.” However it carries the connotation of a unity that “the people” does not.
Patton, though a great leader and fighting general, also was almost crazy and irrational at times. This quotation illustrates one of those periods. Somehow, most of the officers and enlisted men under his command were generally able to distinguish and live with him. In this case, no one tried to ferret out the cowards and kill them despite the Generals exhortation. Also, his—and other people’s notion that bravery is genetically inherited is scientifically incorrect.
Patton, one of the world’s best fighting general was somewhat mentally unbalanced and unlike almost all senior officers who are successful commanders but see war as an unpleasant, brutal necessity, Patton loved war and the fighting part of it. His non battlefield behavior was so erratic and atrocious that Eisenhower and his other superiors almost fired him on several occasions. He died in an automobile crash shortly after the German surrender, so the dilemma of what to do with Patton in peacetime was resolved.
By the 21st century, there were few who would agree with Roosevelt on this point. The contributions of inventors and scientists and then business men and financiers.
It is not clear whether their manifesto was written by D’annunzio himself or followers in Fiume the Dictatorial mini-state that he ruled, He was a precursor to the Fascists of Europe and this is the origin of the Fascist glorification of war. Hitler and Mussolini also picked up the dagger as a symbol (see Quotation 643744), the black colored uniforms and the stiff-armed salute from D’annunzio.
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and sportsman. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his adventurous lifestyle and his public image brought him admiration from later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short-story collections, and two nonfiction works. Three of his novels, four short-story collections, and three nonfiction works were published posthumously. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature.
