War is what happens when language fails.

About This Quote

The quote, "War is what happens when language fails" is a reference to the absence of words, specifically the absence of words related to war. War is nothing but an excuse that people use to justify their own actions.

Some Similar Quotes

1. War is what happens when language fails. - Margaret Atwood

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

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

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

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

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More Quotes By Margaret Atwood

1. I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.

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2. Falling in love, we said; I fell for him. We were falling women. We believed in it, this downward motion: so lovely, like flying, and yet at the same time so dire, so extreme, so unlikely. God is love, they once said, but we reversed...

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3. How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.

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4. A truth should exist, it should not be usedlike this. If I love youis that a fact or a weapon?

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5. Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic, one-handed, unwavering; unlike love.

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