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The essential job is to get people to recognise war propaganda when they see it, especially when it is disguised as peace propaganda.
George Orwell1903–1950Review of The Men I Killed by Brigadier-General F. P. Crozier, CB, CMG, DSO, in New Statesman and Nation (28 August 1937)
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
Wilfred Owen1893–1918Dulce et Decorum Est (1920)In context
- Truth & Lies
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Wilfred Owen1893–1918Anthem for Doomed Youth (1920)In context
I mean the truth untold,
The pity of war, the pity war distilled.
Wilfred Owen1893–1918Strange Meeting (1919)In context
The pallor of girls’ brows shall be their pall;
Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.
Wilfred Owen1893–1918Anthem for Doomed Youth (1920)In context
It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.
Thomas Paine1737–1809
An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
Thomas Paine1737–1809Agrarian Justice (1797)
- Ideas
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
George S. Patton1885–1945
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.
George S. Patton1885–1945Speech at the Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts (7 June 1945), quoted in Patton: Ordeal and Triumph (1970) by Ladislas Farago
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.
George S. Patton1885–1945Cavalry Journal (September 1933)
All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood.
George S. Patton1885–1945War As I Knew It
- Fear
May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t.
George S. Patton1885–1945
It is the unconquerable nature of man and not the nature of the weapon he uses that ensures victory.
George S. Patton1885–1945
I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
George S. Patton1885–1945
War is an art and as such is not susceptible of explanation by fixed formula.
George S. Patton1885–1945