World War I

Famous quotes containing the words world and/or war:

    Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    The inconveniences and horrors of the pox are perfectly well known to every one; but still the disease flourishes and spreads. Several million people were killed in a recent war and half the world ruined; but we all busily go on in courses that make another event of the same sort inevitable. Experientia docet? Experientia doesn’t.
    Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)