Charles Bukowski Quotes

The threat of a world war is no more.

Even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes, massacres, destruction.

Today, however, the world is deeply troubled everywhere and disorder seems endless. As the disasters that humankind may suffer are immeasurable, we sincerely hope to bring about a cessation of hostilities and a restoration of peace, and have therefore ordered the government to ally with Germany and Italy, nations which share the same intentions as ourselves ….

That's what I learned from World War II. Things are always more complicated than most people believe.

I can only tell you this and I used to speak about it all the time, we have a Navy that hasn't been in this position since World War I.

One ... aspect of the case for World War II is that while it was still a shooting affair it taught us survivors a great deal about daily living which is valuable to us now that it is, ethically at least, a question of cold weapons and hot words.

Who after wine, talks of wars hardships or of poverty.

It's not a world war yet, but we're at war, because ISIS has declared war on us.

Now, all that I feared would happen has happened. We are at war all over the world, and we are unprepared for it from either a spiritual or a material standpoint.

The general at the radar screenRubbed his hands with glee,And grinning pressed the buttonAnd started world war three.

The disasters of the world are due to its inhabitants not being able to grow old simultaneously. There is always a raw and intolerant nation eager to destroy the tolerant and mellow.

The enemy of our games was always Japan, and the courses were so thorough that after the start of World War II, nothing that happened in the Pacific was strange or unexpected.

Beware the toils of war ... the mesh of the huge dragnet sweeping up the world.

I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy

I guess there was a war going on somewhere in the world that night but it wasn't one that could touch us.

There is no difference between acute schizophrenia and a world at war.

Make us enemies of every people on earth, but save us from civil war.

We're still eating the leftovers of World War II.

We find ourselves in what I consider to be the most challenging, difficult, threatening time since World War II because of this War on Terror.

Come the three corners of the world in arms, and we shall shock them.

The United Sates has much to offer the third world war.

We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry disturbs the peace; but seven million men, any ten thousand of whom could have annihilated the ancient armies, are in ceaseless battle from the Alps to the Ocean.

I never believed in the danger of a third world war.

Viewed as a drama, the war is somewhat disappointing.

I'm fascinated by the First World War because it was supposed to be the war to end all wars, and it was the biggest conflagration that this particular planet had seen. There was a lot of talk about utopia and how it was possible, and then, because of these events that for one reason or another couldn't be stopped, the idea of utopia went out the window.