Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes about War

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War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Travel, War, Adventure

Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Strong, War, Distance

It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

War, Making Love, Soldier

If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

War, Sometimes, Businessman

"Letter to an American". Essay by Antoine de Saint Exupery, www.416th.com. July 1944.

Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Peace, War, Adventure