Generation War Quotes
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Generation War Quotes & Sayings
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I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war ... suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.
— Philip Caputo
![Generation War Quotes By Gilbert K. Chesterton: [Marxism will] in a generation or so [go]](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/generation-war-quotes-by-gilbert-k-chesterton-1707266.jpg "Generation War Quotes By Gilbert K. Chesterton: [Marxism will] in a generation or so [go]")
[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
The war educated a generation of believers in force. The demons of hatred and murder then released continue their activity.
— Nikolai A. Berdyaev
A neat little apartment with a neat little bourgeois life. A neat little security on the edge of the abyss. Do you really see that?
— Erich Maria Remarque
Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
— Walter Dean Myers
In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war, but we did notcompletely trust anyone. — Ernest Hemingway,
A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility
— Tom Brokaw
...unlike the Lost Generation, which was occupied with the loss of faith, the Beat Generation is becoming more and more occupied with the need for it.
— John Clellon Holmes
We had the great good fortune and shortcomings of character that marked every generation that had never seen war.
— Joshua Ferris
My generation has failed miserably. We've failed because of lack of courage and vision. It requires more courage to keep the peace than to go to war.
— Fiorello H. La Guardia
Yank! Yank! We you come to get Yank. We you come to get.
— Norman Mailer
This war has already stretched the generation gap so wide that it threatens to pull the country apart.
— Frank Church
Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.
— R. W. Apple Jr.
Today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
— Margaret Mead
This is a generation of men accustomed to warfare, inured to danger and familiar with cruelty.
— Philippa Gregory
So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are.
— Stewart Udall
The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything ... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.
— Richard Holbrooke
The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.
— Clint Eastwood
World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart.
— Jim Webb
My generation had the best years. We missed the Second World War and caught the outburst of rock 'n' roll.
— Georgie Fame
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
— Simone De Beauvoir
I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.
— Gene Tierney
Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
— Chuck Palahniuk
I wanted to ask which warthe Boer or the Crimean? It was amazing how old people could talk about The War, as though that meant something. — John Christopher
As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it.
— Max Hastings
That is what you are. That's what you all are ... all of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.
— Gertrude Stein
A generation that hates war will not bring peace. A generation that loves peace will bring peace.
— Seth
A victor's peace is usually vindictive and stirs up a passion for revenge a generation or so later.
— Muriel Lester
They were brought up in these ruins and no longer notice them.
— John Clellon Holmes
