Henry David Thoreau: War belies the claim that civilization is making rapid progress |
Mon, 11/14/2022 - 18:00 |
Tue, 11/15/2022 - 22:16 |
Halldór Laxness: Three questions about war on earth and in heaven |
Sun, 11/13/2022 - 14:51 |
Sun, 11/13/2022 - 19:24 |
Halldór Laxness: There are ideals in war too, slaughtering men by the million |
Sat, 11/12/2022 - 17:59 |
Sun, 11/13/2022 - 19:24 |
Remembrance/Armistice/Veterans Day: Alfred Noyes’s The Victory Ball |
Fri, 11/11/2022 - 14:40 |
Fri, 11/11/2022 - 18:18 |
André Malraux: Do you think that the army budget is meant to pay for war? |
Thu, 11/10/2022 - 18:49 |
Thu, 11/10/2022 - 23:42 |
J.M.G. Le Clézio: This is what war is |
Thu, 11/10/2022 - 04:47 |
Fri, 11/11/2022 - 11:54 |
Francis Thompson: Flattering the too-much-pampered Boy of War |
Wed, 11/09/2022 - 03:10 |
Wed, 11/09/2022 - 04:28 |
Francis Thompson: Kingly crown and warrior’s crest not worth a blade of grass |
Tue, 11/08/2022 - 04:18 |
Wed, 11/09/2022 - 04:28 |
Charles Fourier: If ever war was deplorable, it is at this moment |
Mon, 11/07/2022 - 15:32 |
Mon, 11/07/2022 - 16:16 |
Pascal: Why kings go to war |
Thu, 11/03/2022 - 14:59 |
Thu, 11/03/2022 - 19:40 |
Arthur Schopenhauer: Are not almost all wars undertaken for purposes of plunder? |
Mon, 10/31/2022 - 23:12 |
Tue, 11/01/2022 - 04:28 |
W. H. Auden: O What Is That Sound |
Wed, 10/12/2022 - 19:39 |
Thu, 10/13/2022 - 09:42 |
Harriet Monroe: Over me wash the seas of war |
Tue, 10/11/2022 - 14:04 |
Thu, 10/13/2022 - 09:42 |
Sholom Aleichem: War, I tell you, is a worldwide massacre |
Mon, 10/10/2022 - 18:09 |
Thu, 10/13/2022 - 09:42 |
Louise Driscoll: The Metal Checks |
Sun, 10/09/2022 - 18:21 |
Thu, 10/13/2022 - 09:42 |
Vachel Lindsay: Tolstoi, that angel of peace |
Sat, 10/08/2022 - 05:30 |
Thu, 10/13/2022 - 09:42 |
John Drinkwater: We Mothers Know |
Fri, 10/07/2022 - 04:08 |
Thu, 10/13/2022 - 09:42 |
Edmond de Goncourt: Despite civilization, brute force asserts itself as in the time of Attila |
Sat, 09/24/2022 - 14:19 |
Thu, 10/13/2022 - 09:42 |
Edmond de Goncourt: Even more horrible than the wounds of battle |
Fri, 09/23/2022 - 13:42 |
Thu, 10/13/2022 - 09:42 |
Edmond de Goncourt: Scenes of siege amid the horrors of war |
Wed, 09/21/2022 - 14:16 |
Thu, 10/13/2022 - 09:42 |
Jules Romains: Dawning of new century shot with sinister streaks of war |
Tue, 09/20/2022 - 18:36 |
Thu, 10/13/2022 - 09:42 |
Anatole France: Even war depends on the arts of peace |
Mon, 09/19/2022 - 13:50 |
Thu, 10/13/2022 - 09:42 |
Pierre Loti: Burying poor young soldiers all guiltless of the mad adventure |
Sun, 09/18/2022 - 14:35 |
Thu, 10/13/2022 - 09:42 |
Jules Romains: Living under the curse of war since childhood |
Sat, 09/17/2022 - 14:19 |
Thu, 10/13/2022 - 09:42 |
Jules Romains: Even the very word was new: war |
Fri, 09/16/2022 - 02:28 |
Thu, 10/13/2022 - 09:42 |
Marcel Aymé: Novel way to end a war |
Tue, 09/13/2022 - 03:40 |
Thu, 10/13/2022 - 09:42 |
Anatole France: They prefer war to work, they would rather kill each other than help each other |
Mon, 09/12/2022 - 01:38 |
Thu, 10/13/2022 - 09:42 |
William James: A sweet little place. One never sees a soldier. |
Sun, 09/11/2022 - 04:29 |
Thu, 10/13/2022 - 09:42 |
William James: Selections on war |
Sat, 09/10/2022 - 03:54 |
Thu, 10/13/2022 - 09:42 |
William James: At the least temptation all the old military passions rise and sweep everything before them |
Fri, 09/09/2022 - 05:23 |
Thu, 10/13/2022 - 09:42 |
Ernest Rhys: Enough of war, enough of death |
Thu, 09/08/2022 - 04:16 |
Thu, 10/13/2022 - 09:42 |
Prosper Mérimée: Commemorating the heroes of war |
Wed, 09/07/2022 - 02:32 |
Thu, 10/13/2022 - 09:42 |
William James: Party of civilization must oppose increase of military might |
Tue, 09/06/2022 - 03:51 |
Thu, 10/13/2022 - 09:42 |
F. Marion Crawford: Find a priest for those I have killed |
Sat, 08/27/2022 - 22:20 |
Mon, 08/29/2022 - 16:14 |
Hugo Grotius: Provoking no wars, invading no countries, spoiling no neighbors to aggrandize themselves |
Wed, 08/24/2022 - 13:33 |
Wed, 08/24/2022 - 17:20 |
Jonathan Swift: Selections on war |
Tue, 08/23/2022 - 16:18 |
Tue, 08/23/2022 - 16:28 |
Jonathan Swift: Few of this generation can remember anything but war and taxes |
Mon, 08/22/2022 - 16:30 |
Tue, 08/23/2022 - 22:40 |
Peter Maurin: Disarmament of the heart |
Fri, 08/19/2022 - 14:36 |
Fri, 08/19/2022 - 17:08 |
William Makepeace Thackeray: Selections on war |
Thu, 08/18/2022 - 13:52 |
Thu, 08/18/2022 - 15:30 |
William Makepeace Thackeray: War’s slave dealers |
Wed, 08/17/2022 - 14:32 |
Thu, 08/18/2022 - 15:30 |
William Makepeace Thackeray: What human crime, misery, slavery, go to form that sum-total of glory! |
Tue, 08/16/2022 - 19:57 |
Thu, 08/18/2022 - 15:30 |
F. V. Branford: Over the Dead |
Sat, 08/13/2022 - 16:21 |
Sat, 08/13/2022 - 17:46 |
Horace Walpole: Peace is the sole event of which I wish to hear |
Fri, 08/12/2022 - 13:23 |
Fri, 08/12/2022 - 17:08 |
Jonathan Swift: We must have peace, let it be a bad or a good one |
Thu, 08/11/2022 - 14:03 |
Tue, 08/23/2022 - 22:40 |
Thomas McGrath: Senators mine our lives for another war |
Wed, 08/10/2022 - 14:26 |
Wed, 08/10/2022 - 15:50 |
Maxime Du Camp: Gautier, war filled him with horror |
Tue, 08/09/2022 - 03:57 |
Tue, 08/09/2022 - 08:16 |
William James: The horrors of a war of conquest |
Mon, 08/08/2022 - 03:04 |
Thu, 10/13/2022 - 09:42 |
Horace Walpole: Stuffing hospitals with maimed soldiers, besides making thousands of widows! |
Thu, 08/04/2022 - 04:06 |
Thu, 08/04/2022 - 10:00 |
Horace Walpole: Deplorable success of destroying any of our species |
Mon, 08/01/2022 - 21:32 |
Mon, 08/01/2022 - 21:38 |
Horace Walpole: I prefer the old hen Peace |
Fri, 07/29/2022 - 04:21 |
Fri, 07/29/2022 - 10:36 |