War Time

Famous quotes containing the words war time, war and/or time:

    In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.
    Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

    Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.
    Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)

    It is because the public are a mass—inert, obtuse, and passive—that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that we can tell from their bear-like grunts where they are—and also where they stand. They are pretty harmless, in spite of their numbers, because they are fighting against intelligence.
    Alfred Jarry (1873–1907)