War
Prestorjon
I'm looking for the source of two quotes
1) "War is hell"
2) "Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war"
SteveH1491
"War is all Hell, and there is nothing good in it except its end."
General William Tecumseh Sherman
Over thy wounds now do I prophesy,--
Which, like dumb mouths, do ope their ruby lips,
To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue--
A curse shall light upon the limbs of men;
Domestic fury and fierce civil strife
Shall cumber all the parts of Italy;
Blood and destruction shall be so in use
And dreadful objects so familiar
That mothers shall but smile when they behold
Their infants quarter'd with the hands of war;
All pity choked with custom of fell deeds:
And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge,
With Ate by his side come hot from hell,
Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice
Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war;
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial.
from Marc Antony's eulogy to Julius Caesar in Shakespeare's play of that
name
Joshua Luskin
Prestorjon (prest...@aol.com) wrote:
: I'm looking for the source of two quotes
: 1) "War is hell"
Civil War General William Sherman (definitely)
: 2) "Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war"
Shakespeare (MUCH less definitely)
Richard Schuerger
>I'm looking for the source of two quotes
>1) "War is hell"
I realize a couple others already answered this, but I think the preceeding
lines add to the quote:
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have
neither fired a shot, nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry
aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
- William Tecumseh Sherman, General - U.S Army (1820 - 1897)
plus a few more on war:
I love war....Peace will be hell for me.
- George S. Patton
War would end if the dead could return.
- Stanley Baldwin
The fact that slaughter is a horrifying spectacle must make us take war more
seriously, but not provide an excuse for gradually blunting our swords in the
name of humanity. Sooner or later someone will come along with a sharp sword
and hack off our arms.
- Carl von Clausewitz
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my
contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal
cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with
at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and
ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an
action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an
act of murder.
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Naturally the common people don't want war... but after all it is the leaders of
a country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the
people along ... All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and
denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.
- Hermann Goering
Man must put an end to war, or war will put an end to man.
- John F. Kennedy
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
- Mao Tse-tung
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
- George McGovern
(There is a quotes page off of my home page.)
Richard Schuerger ~ Cha...@nwu.edu
Northwestern University, Department of Physiology
303 E. Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL 60611
Voice: (312)503-9810 FAX: (312)503-5101
http://pubweb.acns.nwu.edu/~rjs979/plan.html
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