“What passing bells for these who die as cattle?Only the monstrous anger of the guns.Only the stuttering rifle's rapid rattleCan patter out their hasty orisons.No mockeries now for them; no prayers,...”

“He's lost his colour very far from here,Poured it down shell-holes till the veins ran dry”

“There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.”

“Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.”

“What is the return on investment of being wedded to your suffering? What do you receive from stewing in victim consciousness? Righteous indignation or an excuse not to change?”

“War is what happens when language fails.”

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

“The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.”