To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
George Orwell
War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
My folks were busy. My dad was a teacher, and it was during the Second World War, and my mother was working. So I got my stories from films and... →
Robert Osborne
I've always felt, with 'The Iliad,' a real frustration that it's read wrong. That it's turned into this public school poem, which... →
Alice Oswald
If something is said about the Raiders, I'm ready to go to war.
Jim Otto
The thing about Hemingway that people forget is that all the stuff he did was at a time where people weren't traveling that much. At 19 he... →
Clive Owen
My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
Wilfred Owen
The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.
Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.