Ellen Glasgow Quotes

Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem.

War is the most readily available form of chaos.

War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in the world.

The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it.

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

Mitchell Sanders was right. For the common soldier, at least, war has the feel-the spiritual texture-of a great ghostly fog, thick and permanent. There is no clarity. Everything swirls. The old rules are no longer binding, the old truths no longer true. Right spills over into wrong. Order blends into chaos, love into hate, ugliness into beauty, law into anarchy, civility into savagery. The vapors suck you in. You can't tell where you are, or why you're there, and the only certainty is overwhelming ambiguity.

All the world does as it is supposed to, except for humans. Maybe that's why you so often want to kill each other.

A schizophrenic war is not an easy thing to deal with.

The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.

The world is a mess. The world is as angry as it gets.

The world is in such a place of social unrest and there's so much violence.

We've created a more dangerous world. We've created more violence. We've unraveled the fabric of our own society. We've watched everything get worse. We've watched countries be destroyed, and we've watched war become the answer to every question.

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

The edge of the conflict swayed to and fro, with wild whirlpools and eddies. At times I saw around me more of the enemy than of my own men; gaps opening, swallowing, closing again with sharp convulsive energy. All around, a strange, mingled roar.

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

Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.

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

It was all absurd, without reason or meaning. People who didn't know each other were going to kill each other over a hill none of them cared about

Truthfully, my life is always lunacy.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march.

Why do people want to kill and maim and pillage? We're all in it together.

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

The United States is a madhouse.

If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.