Ernest Hemingway Military Quotes

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• Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Military, War

  Ernest Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on War”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

• The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Military, War, Men

• I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Military, War, Men

• Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Death, Military

  Men at War introduction (1942)

• They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Death, Country, Sweet

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

• Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Military

  Ernest Hemingway, William Kozlenko (1942). “Men at War: The Best War Stories of All Time”, New York : Crown Publishers

• Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Peace, Military, War

• For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Peace, Military, War

• Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Military, Stronger, Negative

• There is a great inertia about all military operations of any size. But once this inertia has been overcome and underway they are almost as hard to arrest as to initiate.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Military, Size, Overcoming

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2966, Simon and Schuster

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