Ernest Hemingway Quotes About Military
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Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.
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There is a great inertia about all military operations of any size. But once this inertia has been overcome and underway they are almost as hard to arrest as to initiate.
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I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
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Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
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They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
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Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.
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Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
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The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.
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For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
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Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
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