Ernest Hemingway Quotes about Military

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

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

Ernest Hemingway

Inspirational, Military, War

Ernest Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on War”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

Ernest Hemingway

Peace, Military, War

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.

Ernest Hemingway

Life, Death, Military

Men at War introduction (1942)

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Ernest Hemingway

Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Military

Ernest Hemingway, William Kozlenko (1942). “Men at War: The Best War Stories of All Time”, New York : Crown Publishers

The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.

Ernest Hemingway

Military, War, Men

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

Ernest Hemingway

Military, War, Men

There is a great inertia about all military operations of any size. But once this inertia has been overcome and underway they are almost as hard to arrest as to initiate.

Ernest Hemingway

Military, Size, Overcoming

Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2966, Simon and Schuster