Act I, sc. ii
(de) Der Krieg ernährt den Krieg.
Wallenstein (1798), Part I - Die Piccolomini (The Piccolomini)
J.A. Hobson (1858–1940) English economist, social scientist and critic of imperialism
The Morals of Economic Irrationalism (1920)
Context: The richly nourished patriotism of war breeds divisions and antagonisms which are easily exploited afterwards by political, racial, religious, and cultural passions, but most of all by economic interests.<!--p.51
“This war, like the next war, is a war to end war.”
David Lloyd George (1863–1945) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Statement, sometimes dated to have been made in 1916, as quoted in Reading, Writing and Remembering : A Literary Record (1932) by Edward Verrall Lucas, p. 296
Undated
Kirby Page (1890–1957) American clergyman
Must We Go to War? (1937)
Kirby Page (1890–1957) American clergyman
Must We Go to War? (1937)
“This war, in its inception was a commercial and industrial war. It was not a political war.”
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
Speech at the Coliseum in St. Louis, Missouri, on the Peace Treaty and the League of Nations (5 September 1919), as published in "The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson (Authorized Edition) War and Peace: Presidential Messages, Addresses, and Public Papers (1917-1924) by Woodrow Wilson Volume I Page 638. Addresses Delivered by President Wilson on his Western Tour - September 4 To September 25, 1919. From 66th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Document No. 120
1910s
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
Statement about World War II (written in 1943), p. 77
Wars I Have Seen (1945)
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
Source: 1970s, Take Today : The Executive as Dropout (1972), p. 152
“There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war.”
Victor Hugo book Les Misérables
Source: Les Misérables
“There’s no war that will end all wars.”
Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore
Source: Kafka on the Shore (2002)
