Famous quotes containing the words war i, world and/or war:
“War is a fevered god
who takes alike
maiden and king and clod....”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)
“That the world is not the embodiment of an eternal rationality can be conclusively proved by the fact that the piece of the world that we knowI mean our human reasonis not so very rational. And if it is not eternally and completely wise and rational, then the rest of the world will not be either; here the conclusion a minori ad majus, a parte ad totum applies, and does so with decisive force.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“Behold now this vast city; a city of refuge, the mansion house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with his protection; the shop of war hath not there more anvils and hammers waking, to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed justice in defence of beleaguered truth, than there be pens and hands there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions.”
—John Milton (16081674)