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War Correspondent Inspirational Quotes (2423)

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Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood
Rudyard Kipling
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You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
Oriana Fallaci
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The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.
Ernest Hemingway
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Most of these who are thrust into combat soon find it impossible to maintain the mythic perception of war.
Chris Hedges
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We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.
George Orwell
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We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull.
George Orwell
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The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.
Ernest Hemingway
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Humanity will live as long as there are humans.
Vasily Grossman
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There is a deep and undeniable sadness in all this: whenever we see the dawn of an eternal good that will never be overcome by evil – an evil that is itself eternal but will never succeed in overcoming good – whenever we see this dawn, the blood of old people and children is always shed.
Vasily Grossman
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There's nothing more difficult than saying goodbye to a house where you've suffered.
Vasily Grossman
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He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons.
Vasily Grossman
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And in this silence of the dumb and these speeches of the blind, in this medly of people bound together by the same grief, terror and hope, in this hatred and lack of understanding between men who spoke the same tongue, you could see much of the tragedy of the twentieth century.
Vasily Grossman
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I don't believe in your Good. I believe in human kindness.
Vasily Grossman
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The history of humanity is the history of human freedom...Freedom is not, as Engels thought, the recognition of necessity. Freedom is the opposite of necessity. Freedom is necessity overcome. Progress is, in essence, the progress of human freedom. Yes, and after all, life itself is freedom. The evolution of life is the evolution of freedom.
Vasily Grossman
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In the cruel and terrible time in which our generation has been condemned to live on this earth, we must never make peace with evil. We must never become indifferent to others or undemanding of ourselves.
Vasily Grossman
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I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.
Vasily Grossman
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At war a Russian man puts on a white shirt. He may live in sin, but he dies like a saint.
Vasily Grossman
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The longer a nation's history, the more wars, invasions, wanderings, and periods of captivity it has seen-the greater the diversity of its faces.
Vasily Grossman
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We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.
Ernest Hemingway
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I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others who, having traced a route, are held to it as though held by flanged wheels to rails.
John Steinbeck
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There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.
Ernest Hemingway
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To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words.... Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence.
George Orwell
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I am interested in details. If you go into anything far enough, you get into the details of it, and people turn out to be interested in what makes things work.
Andy Rooney
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Dogs are nicer than people.
Andy Rooney
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