Margaret Atwood Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• War is what happens when language fails.

  Margaret Atwood

  War, Empowering, Language

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “The Robber Bride: Includes the short story 'I Dream of Zenia with the Bright Red Teeth'”, p.46, Hachette UK

• Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.

  Margaret Atwood

  War, Winning, Thinking

  Margaret Atwood (2015). “Morning in the Burned House”, p.61, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• It wasn't so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly.

  Margaret Atwood

  War, Fire, Ashes

  Margaret Atwood (2000). “The Blind Assassin”, Random House Large Print Publishing

• Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.

  Margaret Atwood

  War, Bridges, Car

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.1, Anchor

• Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came and hauled you back. That was also true during the Vietnam War for draft resisters.

  Margaret Atwood

  War, Safe, Canada

• Disease has always been a much bigger killer of human beings than wars.

  Margaret Atwood

  War, Disease, Killers

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• The weapons that were once outside sharpening themselves on war are now indoors there, in the fortress, fragile in glass cases; Why is it (I'm thinking of the careful moulding round the stonework archways) that in this time, such elaborate defences keep things that are no longer (much) worth defending?

  Margaret Atwood

  War, Thinking, Glasses

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “Selected Poems: 1965-1975”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• As human beings, we are always torn between individual freedom and the ability of choose our actions, and the need for at least enough social structure so that anarchy, chaos, and warlordery - or the war of all against all - can be avoided.

  Margaret Atwood

  War, Needs, Our Actions

• My parents were gardeners themselves, and perforce they used environmental techniques because it was during the war, and you didn't have the new sorts of chemicals.

  Margaret Atwood

  War, Parent, Environmental

  Source: progressive.org

• In the First World War, people would be receiving letters from loved ones who had been dead for weeks, and they would not know until that black-bordered telegram arrived. I remember, of course, when it was letters only, or the telephone, and you did not make expensive long-distance calls unless it was, "Come home to the funeral," or the like.

  Margaret Atwood

  War, Distance, Home

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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