I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.

Alan Bennett
Some Similar Quotes
  1. War is what happens when language fails. - Margaret Atwood

  2. Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. - Ernest Hemingway

  3. The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them. - J.r.r. Tolkien

  4. If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war. - Leo Tolstoy

  5. Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. - Anonymous

More Quotes By Alan Bennett
  1. You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.

  2. We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.

  3. One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.

  4. I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.

  5. Too late. It was all too late. But she went on, determined as ever and always trying to catch up.

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