4 Graham Greene Quotes on War

Graham Greene quotes on war

19. Perhaps his laughter saved them - it must be difficult to shoot a laughing man: you have to feel important to kill.

20. Its typical of Mexico, of the whole human race perhaps - violence in favour of an ideal and then the ideal lost but the violence just going on.

46. The hurt is in the act of possession; we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation. In a way I was glad my wife had struck out at me again - I had forgotten her pain for too long, and this was the only kind of recompense I could give her. Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower.

67. If one is going to write about war, self respect demands that one.