“Naturally, the little wars were dressed up in ritual and significance. War spear challenge was followed by war dance, and invocation of demons, the one-eyed snake and diverse totems. I bowed to none of these, having seen early the vulgarity and impotence of the tribal pantheon. Generally men create gods in their own image.”
Book One, Part I “The Krarl”, Chapter 4 (p. 31)
Vazkor, Son of Vazkor (1978)
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“No war, or battle's sound
Was heard the world around.
The idle spear and shield were high up hung.”
Hymn, stanza 4, line 53
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1629)
1930s, Address at Chautauqua, New York (1936)
The Autobiography of Margot Asquith (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963) p. 291. (1922)
Of the crowds outside 10 Downing Street on August 3, 1914.
“Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.”
Source: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
The World at War: the Landmark Oral History from the Classic TV Series (2007) by Richard Holmes, Page 634.
“War too, must be seen as a natural occurrence.”
Quote from Otto Dix' his War-Diary, c. 1915-16; as cited in Art of the 20th Century, Part 1, Karl Ruhrberg, Klaus Honnef, Manfred Schneckenburger, Christiane Fricke; publisher: Taschen 2000, p. 188
