Barbara Kingsolver Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Funny, Life, Running

• Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Pain

• There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  War, Sacrifice, Boys

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “Animal Dreams: A Novel”, p.14, Harper Collins

• We must surely appear to the world as exactly what we are: a nation that organizes its economy around consuming twice as much oil as it produces, and around the profligate wastefulness of the wars and campaigns required to defend such consumption. In recent years we have defined our national interest largely in terms of the oil fields and pipelines we need to procure fuel.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  War, Years, Oil

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.33, Faber & Faber

• War so conspicuously benefits rich men and kills the poor ones.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  War, Men, Benefits

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “The Lacuna”, p.294, Faber & Faber

• All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  War, Promise, Politician

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.22, Faber & Faber

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