Wars

Famous quotes containing the word wars:

“We have to have wars now and then just to prove we’re top dog.”
—Reginald Berkeley (1890–1935)

“Before now poetry has taken notice
Of wars, and what are wars but politics
Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody?”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions.”
—Paul Deman (1919–1983)