Jean Giraudoux Quotes

It's always the old to lead us to the war It's always the young to fall Now look at all we've won with the sabre and the gun Tell me is it worth it all.

And when the war is done and youth stone dead I'd toddle safely home and die—in bed.

A nation's youths shouldn't be sent off to die.

Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better.

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.

No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

Old men make wars that young men may die.

When the old men fight, the young people die.

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out.

And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud.

War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.

War is about dead people.

We have long honored those who gave their lives during the unfortunate reality of war.

I don't think we have to have a personal relation to a life lost to understand that something terrible has taken place, especially in the context of war.

I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war.

As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice.