Ernest Hemingway Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• 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 first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

  Ernest Hemingway

  War, Political, Ruins

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.4177, Simon and Schuster

• Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times. All of war is that way.

  Ernest Hemingway

  War, Years, One Day

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.468, Simon and Schuster

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

  Ernest Hemingway

  Military, War, Men

• War is no longer made by simply analyzed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms have failed to satisfy the people they misrule.

  Ernest Hemingway

  War, Men, Play

  Ernest Hemingway, Séan A. Hemingway (2003). “Hemingway on war”, Scribner Book Company

• 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

• We think. We are not peasants. We are mechanics. But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. Everybody hates war. There is a class that control a country that is stupid and down not realise anything and never can. That is why we have this war. Also they make money out of it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Country, Hate, War

  Ernest Hemingway (1929). “A Farewell to Arms: With an Introd”

• 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

• No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Peace, War, Wipe

  "Treasury of the Free World". Book by Ben Raeburn. Introduction to the book, 1946.

• You never kill any one that you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.

  Ernest Hemingway

  War, Want, Said

  "For Whom the Bell Tolls".

• 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

• An aggressive war is the great crime against everything good in the world. A defensive war, which must necessarily turn to aggressive at the earliest moment, is the necessary great counter-crime. But never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.

  Ernest Hemingway

  War, Crime, Infantry

  "Treasury of the Free World". Book by Ben Raeburn. Introduction to the book, 1946.

• No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Peace, War, Guarantees

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

• War is not won by victory.

  Ernest Hemingway

  War, Victory

  Ernest Hemingway (2012). “A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

• In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Dog, Peace, War

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

• (World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.

  Ernest Hemingway

  War, Taken, History

• No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Brother, War, Thinking

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.4181, Simon and Schuster

• We in America should see that no man is ever given, no matter how gradually or how noble and excellent the man, the power to put this country into a war which is now being prepared and brought closer each day with all the pre-meditation of a long planned murder. For when you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Country, War, Men

  Ernest Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on War”, p.304, Simon and Schuster

• There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene.

  Ernest Hemingway

  War, Names, Honor

  Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom, Ernest Hemingway (2009). “Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms”, p.49, Infobase Publishing

• To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.

  Ernest Hemingway

  War, Winning, Needs

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

• It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war." Defeat is worse." I do not believe it," Passini said still respectfully. "What is defeat? You go home.

  Ernest Hemingway

  War, Believe, Home

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.30, Hamilton Books

• It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people.

  Ernest Hemingway

  War, Nice, Wine

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.74, Hamilton Books

• Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.

  Ernest Hemingway

  War, Years, Forever

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.69, Hamilton Books

• Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Peace, Military, War

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