John Knowles Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart

  John Knowles

  War, Heart, Stupidity

  John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

• I never killed anybody and I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform; I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed my enemy there.

  John Knowles

  War, School, Hatred

  John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

• Your war memories will be with you forever, you'll be asked about them thousands of times after the war is over. People will get their respect for you from that-partly from that, don't get me wrong-but if you can say that you were up front where there was some real shooting going on, then that will mean a whole lot to you in years to come.

  John Knowles

  Memories, Real, War

  John Knowles (1997). “A Separate Peace”, Holt McDougal

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