Quotes about The great war

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Our knowledge of life is limited to death — Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
They called it the Great War, but that implied worthiness and grandeur, not violence and helplessness and the utter wast — M.J. Rose, The Secret Language of Stones
The landscape had been so maimed by this new kind of warfare it was as if human architects of great genius had sat down — Christopher Buehlman, Those Across the River
In April war was declared with Germany. Wilson and his cabinet—a cabinet that in its lack of distinction was strangely r — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
As in all great cataclysmic events, men are forced to show their true colours. Some will achieve the status of legend fo — Anne Rouen, Angel of Song
In each succeeding war there is a tendency to proclaim as something new the principles under which it is conducted. Not — John J. Pershing, My Experiences in the World War
The real propaganda is what—if we are genuinely a living member of a nation—we tell ourselves because we have hope, hope — Marcel Proust, Time Regained