Wars

Famous quotes containing the word wars:

    “I had the idea that there were two worlds. There was a real world as I called it, a world of wars and boxing clubs and children’s homes on back streets, and this real world was a world where orphans burned orphans.... I liked the other world in which almost everyone lived. The imaginary world.”
    —Norman Mailer (b. 1923)

    “Now his wars on God begin;
    At stroke of midnight God shall win.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of peace and love.”
    —Thomas Traherne (1636–1674)