Homer T. Bone Quotes

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.

The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.

At the Imperial Conference on December 1, it was decided to make war against England and the United States.

In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as it was called until 1939.

In the beginning of the Great War, the emotions of Europe ran riot in a most horrible manner, first among the so-called 'living,' and then among the killed when they awoke.

The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.

Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

Any great war must be a popular movement.

How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas masks here because of a quarrel in a far away country between people of whom we know nothing.

There can be no peace until this German spirit of Militarism is crushed.

The first 'world' war was in reality the last European war fought by globally significant European powers.

We have in our heads a pretty well-defined narrative of the First World War, and there are certain events that are obviously key.

World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.

The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.

It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.

If the blood of France and of Germany flows again, as it did twenty-five years ago, in a longer and even more murderous war, each of the two peoples will fight with confidence in its own victory, but the most certain victors will be the forces of destruction and barbarism.

I can hardly repress our press and our people too. They are thirsting for war against England.

Perhaps when the next great war comes we may see that sight unprecedented in all history, a jingo with a bullet-hole in him.

Our involvement in this war is treason to the interests of international socialism.

Remember that everybody signed up as fast as they could in World War I because they thought the war would be over by Christmas.

I now seriously ask whether an English victory would not be more desirable for our future than a German victory.

I write as a man in the street. Doubtless I am abnormally dense one because I cannot for the life of me see why this country should be drawn into this war [WWI]. Serbia is not worth the life of one single British Grenadier.

The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time.

Speaking as somebody who is half English and half Hungarian, World War I still seems to me a familiar and seismic event, as if it had only just ended.