Posted by: Elisabetta
in Quotes & Aphorisms (War & Peace)
France has lost a battle, but France has not lost the war.
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France has lost a battle, but France has not lost the war.
War is at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that the other fellow isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.
I'm here in order to explain how much is hypocritical the world that gets fired up for a surgeon who replaces a heart with another, and then approves that thousands of young creatures, with the heart in order, are sent to die, like cows to the slaughterhouse, for the flag.
Almost nothing like the war, and nothing like an unfair war, crushes the dignity of the man.
One doesn't cry over one's past, one changes route.
I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and make no one happy when they are finished.
When the rich fight the rich, it is the poor who die.
One day also the war will been him the sound of a guitar.
We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.