“None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims.”
Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986)
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writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and … 1928–2016Related quotes
“None of us is just its victim. We are all also its co-creators.”
Václav Havel (1936–2011) playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of the Czech Republic
New Year's Address to the Nation (1990)
Context: We had all become used to the totalitarian system and accepted it as an unchangeable fact and thus helped to perpetuate it. In other words, we are all — though naturally to differing extents — responsible for the operation of the totalitarian machinery. None of us is just its victim. We are all also its co-creators.
“War loves to seek its victims in the young.”
Sophocles (-496–-406 BC) ancient Greek tragedian
Scyrii, Frag. 507.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The victor of the war in Iraq is Iran.”
Madeleine K. Albright (1937–2022) Former U.S. Secretary of State
Speech at a Harvard Institute of Politics/Harvard Divinity School forum (April 11, 2007), quoted in the Harvard Crimson http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2007/4/12/albright-calls-for-diplomacy-in-iraq/ <br class="br">2000s
“In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.”
Neville Chamberlain (1869–1940) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech at Kettering, (3 July 1938), The Times (4 July 1938)
Prime Minister
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
Collected Works, Vol. 24, pp. 398–421.
Collected Works
William S. Burroughs (1914–1997) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer
"The War Universe", taped conversation, first published in Grand Street, No. 37 (1991) http://openlibrary.org/b/OL7452886M/Grand_Street_37_(Grand_Street) <br class="br">Context: This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers.
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
1963, American University speech
