Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes

I have fought for many years. I have killed many men. I have never seen a foreigner die.

The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.

War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

It is a wide road that leads to the war and only a narrow path that leads home again.

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

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 is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence.

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

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

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

Surviving is the only glory in war.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

War... some people glamorise war and glorify war. It's not nice, from whatever point of view you come from.

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

War is fear cloaked in courage.

The Arab world is not in a compromising mood. It's likely that your plan is rational and logical, but the fate of nations is not decided by rational logic. Nations never concede; they fight. You won't get anything by peaceful means or compromise. You can, perhaps, get something, but only by the force of your arms. We shall try to defeat you. I am not sure we'll succeed, but we'll try. We were able to drive out the Crusaders, but on the other hand we lost Spain and Persia. It may be that we shall lose Palestine. But it's too late to talk of peaceful solutions.

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