Enzo Ferrari Quotes

Sacredness of human life! The world has never believed it! It has been with life that we settled our quarrels, won wives, gold and land, defended ideas, imposed religions. We have held that a death toll was a necessary part of every human achievement, whether sport, war or industry. A moment's rage over the horror of it, and we have sunk into indifference.

War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning

Have you ever wondered what a human life is worth? That morning, my brother's was worth a pocket watch.

And every human being is precious.

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

No one thinks of how much blood it costs.

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.

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.

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

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

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

... not peace at any price. There is a peace more destructive to the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body. Chains are worse than bayonets.

Military glory—the attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood.

in the clash of contending armies and amid the groans of the wounded and the dying, the interests of education are sacrificed – the pacific virtues take their flight from the earth

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers. All you have to do is hold your first dying soldier in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that his life is flowing out and you can’t do anything about it. Then you understand the horror of war.

Could anything be more magnificent. Compared to war all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance.

What can rulers, nobility and all the lords of the earth say to justify the horrible killing and maiming of twenty or thirty million valuable men who a short while ago ploughed, dug, wove, built, guided the traffic of the world, took their pleasure, loved their fellows, cherished their families, and feared naught?

Blood is the price of victory

Terrible wars have been fought where millions have died for one idea - freedom. And it seems that something that means so much to so many people would be worth having.

When people go at war they cheapen things.

There is purpose and worth to each and every life.

No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being.

Gaza is going to test who believes in the worth of human beings.

And looking into the face of ... one dead man we see two dead, the man and the life of the woman who gave him birth; the life she wrought into his life! And looking into his dead face someone asks a woman, what does a woman know about war? What, what, friends in the face of a crime like that, what does man know about war?