“If they hate us, (…) it is because we have also bombed their cities. What we are seeing now is a world gone mad, children, a world full of brutes, all intent on killing one another. And we should not forget that we are all responsible for making it happen, for letting it happen.” War Book:An Elephant in the Garden: Inspired by a True Story Source: An Elephant in the Garden: Inspired by a True Story
“Every time I looked at his face and hands the story seemed to want to tell itself again in my head. I so much wanted to know more.” War Book:Half a Man Source: Half a Man
“Any story you write about war, or film you make about war, is bound to be political whether you like it or not.” WritingWarStoriesFilmPoliticalBoundsYou Like It Author:Michael Morpurgo
“I think people are more in contact now with the consequences of war than they've been for a very long time. And that's what amazes me when sometimes politicians seem to forget their history. They don't look and re-learn about what has happened before. Maybe they haven't got the memory, maybe they're already too young, but you can see how we become puffed up, and how we as a nation rise so quickly if we're not careful.” PeopleIfsThinkingLooksLongWarSometimesSeemsYoungNationsMemoriesForgetHappenedHavensPoliticianLong TimeConsequenceCarefulContact Author:Michael Morpurgo
“It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering.” WarSufferingFocusGoes OnUniversal Author:Michael Morpurgo
“But just as soon as this war's over and finished with,I'll get back home and marry her.I've grown up with her, Joey, known her all my life. S'pose I know her almost as well as I know myself, and I like her a lot better.” KnowsWellsWarHomeKnownFinishedGet BackBack HomeLike HerJoey Author:Michael Morpurgo
“That's what this war is all about, my friend. It's about which of us is the crazier.And clearly you British have an advantage.You were crazy beforehand.” WarCrazyMy FriendsAdvantageBritish Book:War Horse Source: War Horse
“This one isn’t just any old horse. There’s a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be? I tell you, my friend, there’s divinity in a horse, and specially in a horse like this. God got it right the day he created them. And to find a horse like this in the middle of this filthy abomination of a war, is for me like finding a butterfly on a dung heap. We don’t belong in the same universe as a creature like this.” MenTryingDoeWarEyeUniverseMiddleCreaturesFindingsMy FriendsHorseHis EyesDivinityButterflySerenityNobilityFilthyAbominationRegal Author:Michael Morpurgo
“I tell you, my friends,’ he said one day. ‘I tell you that I am the only sane man in the regiment. It’s the others that are mad, but they don’t know it. They fight a war and they don’t know what for. Isn’t that crazy? How can one man kill another and not really know the reason why he does it, except that the other man wears a different colour uniform and speaks a different language? And it’s me they call mad!” KnowsMenDoeSaidDifferentWarReasonFightingSpeakLanguageCrazyOne DayMy FriendsMadReason WhyColourOne ManSaneUniformsDifferent LanguagesDifferent Colours Book:War Horse Source: War Horse
“Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.” WellsWarLessonsForgotten Author:Michael Morpurgo
“Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.” PeopleWantImportantWarHappensFighting Author:Michael Morpurgo
