Clara Zetkin Quotes

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.

War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.

The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.

It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.

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 does not determine who is right - only who is left.

It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering.

The poets who have written the best poems about war seem to be the poets whose countries have experienced an invasion or vicious dictatorships.

The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose; while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose, especially their lives.

It was in Spain that men learned that we can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when courage is not its own reward. It is this, doubtless, which explains why so many men, the world over, regarded the Spanish drama as a personal tragedy.

And the war rages on in a land called somewhere And Generals order their men to kill And to fight for a cause they’ve long ago forgotten While a little cloud weeps on the side of a hill.

We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.

Finally, people are starting to recognize freedom and peace do have a cause, they do have a price.

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

Ultimately, my books are not about the politics, although the toil and the struggle and the wars in Afghanistan have a significant impact on the lives of my characters.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.

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

It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.

When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.

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