As suddenly the whole world would slip back into a mollifying, untormented dark; their aching bodies knew its calm.

«Se anche ce ne fossero, […] sarebbe da veri criminali esaltare gli aspetti belli della guerra!»

War is a game that is played with a smile If you can t smile grin If you can t grin keep out of the way till you can

Honor LostAmbulant sunshine piercedthe soot covered glass ~the feeble man wandered byin this ritual morning pass ...

I don't feel sad because of the sins that I've committed but because of those which I'm about to commit.

The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

If there is a war to be fought, we don’t consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not to fight.

the great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood

We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land. All the same, we are not often sad.

Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible; and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.

The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form.

He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid.

Peace would always be less compelling than war. Perhaps that was why there was so little of it in the world. (p. 160)

War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.