John Steinbeck Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.

  John Steinbeck

  War, Animal, Men

  John Steinbeck (2007). “Once There Was a War”, p.9, Penguin

• Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

  John Steinbeck

  Football, War, Team

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.126, Penguin

• Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.

  John Steinbeck

  War, Fighting, Winning

  John Steinbeck (2009). “The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.344, Penguin

• I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.

  John Steinbeck

  War, Reality, Romance

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.77, Penguin

• War ... a reversal of the rules where a man is permitted to kill all the humans he can.

  John Steinbeck

  War, Men, Humans

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.456, Penguin

• The Mexican War was a training ground for generals, so that when the sad self-murders settled on us, the leaders knew the techniques for making it properly horrible.

  John Steinbeck

  War, Self, Mexican

• My wants are simple. I have no desire to latch onto a monster symbol of fate and power and prove my manhood in titanic piscine war. But sometimes I do like a couple of cooperative fish of frying size.

  John Steinbeck

  Couple, War, Fate

• The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for courage, compassion and love. In the endless war against weakness and despair, these are the bright rally flags of hope and of emulation. I hold that a writer who does not believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

  John Steinbeck

  War, Believe, Heart

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.146, Penguin

• It must be a hard thing to kill a man you don't know and don't hate.

  John Steinbeck

  Hate, War, Men

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.126, Penguin

• And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind of man.

  John Steinbeck

  War, Men, Mind

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.115, Penguin

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