T. S. Eliot Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

  T. S. Eliot

  War, May, Ignored

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.215, Faber & Faber

• That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention.

  T. S. Eliot

  Peace, War, Names

• Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.

  T. S. Eliot

  Peace, War, Passion

• I do not approve the extermination of the enemy; the policy of exterminating or, as it is barbarously said, liquidating enemies, is one of the most alarming developments of modern war and peace, from the point of view of those who desire the survival

  T. S. Eliot

  War, Views, Survival

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Notes towards the Definition of Culture”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy. It consists of piracy, ego and, more than anything, money. War is our century's prostitution.

  T. S. Eliot

  War, Reality, Ego

• War among men defiles this world.

  T. S. Eliot

  War, Men, World

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.245, Faber & Faber

• The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.

  T. S. Eliot

  Peace, War, Doe

• We took up
  our positions, in obedience to instructions.

  T. S. Eliot

  War, Obedience, Instruction

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II: Practical Cats and Further Verses”, p.551, Faber & Faber

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