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“On the Avenue in front of the White House were several hundred colored people, mostly women and children, weeping and wailing their loss. This crowd did not diminish through the whole of that cold, wet day; they seemed not to know what was to by their fate since their great benefactor was dead, and though strong and brave men wept when I met them, the hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.”

“When children's children shall talk of War as a madness that may not be; When we thank our God for our grief today, and blazon from sea to sea In the name of the Dead the banner of Peace ... that will be Victory.”

May Children War Today Names Grief Sea Victory Madness Banner

Author:Robert W. Service

“If the next time our governments propose to make war on a helpless civilian population we were to uncover our grief and guilt instead of our anger, how much difference might we make?”

Ifs War Government Might Next Differences Grief Guilt Population Helpless Next Time Civilians Propose

Book:The Whole Woman

Source: The Whole Woman

“This is a racist and imperialist war. The warmongers who stole the White House have hijacked a nation's grief and turned it into a perpetual war on any non-white country they choose to describe as terrorist.”

War Country House Nations White Grief Terrorist Racist White House Perpetual Warmongers Perpetual War

Author:Woody Harrelson

“The [Vietnam War Memorial] Wall became a magnet for citizens of every generation, class, race, and relationship to the war perhaps because it is the only great public monument that allows the anesthetized holes in the heart to fill with a truly national grief.”

Heart War Grief Race Class Generations Wall Citizens Holes Vietnam Memorial Monument Vietnam War Magnet

Book:What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)

Source: What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)

“Since there is no system of public education, the great majority of my fellow citizens is frighteningly ignorant. They have no idea where Iraq is. They accept as the gospel whatever the government tells them. Good grief, any other normal country would have been against the Iraq war! But we live in an abnormal country, governed by experts in deceptive advertising.”

Has Beens Ideas War Country Government Grief Accepting Citizens Normal Fellows Majority Iraq Ignorant Advertising No Idea Experts Iraq War Abnormal Deceptive Public Education

Author:Gore Vidal

“In our man-of-war world, Life comes in at one gangway and Death goes overboard at the other. Under the man-of-war scourge, cursesmix with tears; and the sigh and the sob furnish the bass to the shrill octave of those who laugh to drown buried griefs of their own.”

Men World War Grief Laughing Tears Tragedy Buried Sigh Bass Scourge Overboard World Life

Book:THE TALES OF THE SEA - Premium Collection: 10 Maritime Novels & Adventure Classics in One Volume: Moby-Dick, Typee, Omoo, Mardi, Redburn, White-Jacket, Israel Potter, Billy Budd, Sailor, Benito Cereno & The Encantadas (Based on the Author's Experiences on a Cargo Ship & US Navy Service)

Source: THE TALES OF THE SEA - Premium Collection: 10 Maritime Novels & Adventure Classics in One Volume: Moby-Dick, Typee, Omoo, Mardi, Redburn, White-Jacket, Israel Potter, Billy Budd, Sailor, Benito Cereno & The Encantadas (Based on the Author's Experiences on a Cargo Ship & US Navy Service)

“People are people, whatever age they're living in. The circumstances may have changed - we go to war with planes instead of chariots - but experiences of grief, longing, rage and love remain the same.”

People May War Age Grief Changed Circumstances And Love Longing Rage Planes Chariots

Author:Madeline Miller

“The Bible goes equally to the cottage of the peasant, and the palace of the king. - It is woven into literature, and colors the talk of the street. The bark of the merchant cannot sail without it; and no ship of war goes to the conflict but it is there. It enters men's closets; directs their conduct, and mingles in all the grief and cheerfulness of life.”

Men War Literature Grief Streets Color Kings Conflict Ships Sail Closets Palaces Peasants Woven Cheerfulness Bark Merchants Cottages

Author:Theodore Parker

“Grief is like a bomber circling round and dropping its bombs each time the circle brings it overhead; physical pain is like the steady barrage on a trench in World War One, hours if it with no let-up for a moment. Thought is never static pain often is... is it not yet enough?”

Ifs World War Enough Moments Pain Hours Grief Rounds Circles War Of The Worlds Bombs Steady Dropping Static Often Is One Hour Overhead Trenches Bombers Physical Pain World War One

Author:C. S. Lewis

“There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. 'How much do you love me?' And, 'Who's in charge?' Everything else is somehow manageable. But these two questions of love and control undo us all, trip us up and cause war, grief, and suffering.”

Humans Two War Suffering Causes Human Beings Grief Manageable Do You Love Me

Book:The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

“I'll picture Rat Kiley face, his grief, and I'll think, You dumb cooze. Because she wasn't listening. It wasn't a war story. It was a love story.”

Thinking War Stories Faces Grief Listening Love Story Dumb Rats War Stories

Book:The Things They Carried

Source: The Things They Carried

“How much do you love me?' and "Who's in charge?" ....these two questions of LOVE and CONTROL undo us ALL, trip us up and cause war, grief, and suffering. People follow different paths, straight or crooked, according to their temperament, depending on which they consider best, or most appropriate -- and all reach You, just as rivers enter the ocean.”

People Two Different War Suffering Causes Grief Path Ocean Rivers Appropriate Temperament Crooked Different Paths Do You Love Me

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“The Four Oaths: Never be late with respect to the way of the warrior; be useful to the lord; be respectful to your parents; get beyond love and grief: exist for the good of man.”

Men Way War Parent Grief Lord Four Late Warrior Respectful Oath Be Respectful Way Of The Warrior Beyond Love

Author:Yamamoto Tsunetomo

“There are seven emotions: joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate, and if a man does not give way to these he can be called patient.”

Ifs Men Way Giving Doe War Joy Hate Grief Emotion Anxiety Seven Patient Adoration Shoguns

Author:Ieyasu Tokugawa

“We must distinguish between those who depend on others, that is between those who to achieve their purposes can force the issue and those who must use persuasion. In the second case, they always come to grief, having achieved nothing; when, however, they depend on their own resources and can force the issue, then they are seldom endangered.”

Art War Use Purpose Force Grief Cases Issues Achieve Depends Resources Persuasion Art Of War

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“LIFE is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. Peace is the interlude between two wars. You have no rose without a thorn; the diligent picker will avoid the pricks and gather the flower. There is no bee without the sting; cleverness consists in gathering the honey nevertheless.”

Two War Moments Pain Life Is Joy Pleasure Grief Flower Rose Honey Bees Nevertheless Gathering Cleverness Intervals Diligent Pain And Pleasure Mosaics

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of everlasting torture on its lips. It meant war on earth and perdition hereafter.”

War Earth Joy Grief Christianity Eternal Messages Threat Lips Torture Everlasting Hereafter Great Joy Tidings Perdition

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“The vanquished know war. They see through the empty jingoism of those who use the abstract words of glory, honor, and patriotism to mask the cries of the wounded, the senseless killing, war profiteering, and chest-pounding grief.”

Knows War Use Grief Cry Honor Glory Empty Killing Abstract Mask Chests Wounded Jingoism

Author:Chris Hedges

“Though a country be sundered, hills and rivers endure; And spring comes green again to trees and grasses Where petals have been shed like tears And lonely birds have sung their grief. ...After the war-fires of three months, One message from home is worth a ton of gold. ...I stroke my white hair. It has grown too thin To hold the hairpins any more.”

May Has Beens War Country Home Three White Grief Fire Tree Tears Hair Months Messages Spring Bird Rivers Lonely Gold Green Endure Hills Grass Shed Strokes Three Months Petals White Hair

Author:Du Fu