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“War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.”

War Soul Whole Eye Mother Sound Dark Forget Streets Sweet Broken Wet Widows Butchery Wet Eyes

Author:Seneca the Younger

“When you talk to people who have been in combat, there's a sensory overload that happens. The color becomes vivid. Sounds become more pronounced. People talk about how, for them, the war was technicolor and real life was black and white after the war.”

People Has Beens War Real Happens Sound Black White Color Real Life Combat Black And White Vivid Sensory Overload

Author:David Ayer

“There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavour of life until he has known poverty, love and war. The justness of this reflection commends it to the lover of condensed philosophy. The three conditions embrace about all there is in life worth knowing. A surface thinker might deem that wealth should be added to the list. Not so. When a poor man finds a long-hidden quarter-dollar that has slipped through a rip into his vest lining, he sounds the pleasure of life with a deeper plummet than any millionaire can hope to cast.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)

“While the poet entertains he continues to search for eternal truths, for the essence of being. In his own fashion he tries to solve the riddle of time and change, to find an answer to suffering, to reveal love in the very abyss of cruelty and injustice. Strange as these words may sound I often play with the idea that when all the social theories collapse and wars and revolutions leave humanity in utter gloom, the poet--whom Plato banned from his Republic--may rise up to save us all.”

Source: Aspects of I.B. Singer

“Sound, sound the trump of Fame! Let Washington's great name Ring through the world with loud applause; Let every clime to Freedom dear Listen with a joyful ear. With equal skill, with god-like power, He governs in the fearful hour Of horrid war, or guides with ease, The happier times of honest peace.”

World War Names Sound Hours Honest Trump Fame Skills Equal Ears Dear Guides Rings Ease Loud Fearful Joyful Applause Happier Times

Author:Joseph Hopkinson

“Mrs. Thatcher responded to our liberation of Grenada with the sounds of a somewhat hypersensitive Neville Chamberlain.”

War Peace Sound Liberation Chamberlain Mrs Thatcher Grenada

Author:Emmett Tyrrell

“Elsewhere the world may be blustering or sleeping, wars are fought, people live and die, some nations disintegrate, while others are born, soon to be swallowed up in turn - and in all this sound and fury, amidst eruptions and undertows, while the world goes its merry way, bursts into flames, tears itself apart and is reborn: human life continues to throb.”

People World Way Humans May War Dies Turns Nations Sound Born Sleep Tears Human Life Flames Elsewhere Fury Merry Reborn Eruption Undertow

Author:Muriel Barbery

“The Sound of battle fell upon my ear & heart all day yesterday - even after dark the cannon's insatiate roar continued.”

Heart War Sound Dark Battle Ears Yesterday Civil War Cannons

Book:Wartime Washington: the Civil War letters of Elizabeth Blair Lee

Source: Wartime Washington: the Civil War letters of Elizabeth Blair Lee

“The New York Times is reporting that back in the '60s, presidential candidate Howard Dean used a letter from a doctor about a back condition to keep himself out of the draft in Vietnam and then spent 10 months skiing. Well it sounds like he's done the impossible. He actually made Bill Clinton and George Bush look like war heroes.”

“General [John] Pope is impulsive and hasty, but energetic, and, what is of most importance, patriotic and sound--perfectly sound.I look for good results.”

Looks War Sound Results Importance Civil War Patriotic Pope Energetic Impulsive Hasty

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“The absolutist lays down the law, but the relativist hears only roaring and bawling. Or, when the relativist voice, as it is heard from philosophers such as Nietzsche or James, itself starts to grate and sounds shrill, as it often does, and when the relativist then offers concessions, the absolutist hears only insincerity. The war of words can often turn into a dialogue of the deaf, and this too if part of its power to arouse outrage and fury.”

Ifs Doe War Law Turns Sound Voice Heard Offers Lays Philosopher Dialogue Deaf Fury Outrage Roaring Concessions Insincerity Absolutism Grate

Book:Truth: A Guide for the Perplexed: A Guide for the Perplexed

Source: Truth: A Guide for the Perplexed: A Guide for the Perplexed

“There is a war going on. All talk of a Christian's right to live luxuriously "as a child of the King" in this atmosphere sounds hollow - especially since the King himself is stripped for battle.”

Children War Christian Sound Wealth Kings Battle Atmosphere Hollow

Author:John Piper