Herbert Read Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.

  Herbert Read

  War, Aquariums, Discipline

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

• The greatest intensification of the horrors of war is a direct result of the democratisation of the State. So long as the army was a professional unit, the specialist function of a limited number of men, war remained a relatively harmless contest for power. But once it became everyman's duty to defend his home (or his political “rights”) warfare was free to range wherever that home might be, and to attack every form of life and property associated with that home.

  Herbert Read

  Military, War, Home

• It is not my purpose as a poet to condemn war (or to be exact, modern warfare). I only wish to present the universal aspects of a particular event.

  Herbert Read

  War, Wish, Events

  Note appended to "The End of War", poem by Herbert Read, 1933.

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