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Ezra Pound Quotes about War

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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.

Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.

Ezra Pound
War, Debt, Slavery
Ezra Pound (1978). “"Ezra Pound Speaking": Radio Speeches of World War II”, Greenwood Press

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

Ezra Pound
Peace, Real, War
Ezra Pound (1970). “A Memoir of Gaudier-Brzeska”, p.140, New Directions Publishing

Wars are made to make debt.

Ezra Pound
War, Debt, Literature
Ezra Pound (1978). “"Ezra Pound Speaking": Radio Speeches of World War II”, Greenwood Press

The man who fears war and squats opposing My words for stour, hath no blood of crimson But is fit only to rot in womanish peace

Ezra Pound
Fear, War, Men
Ezra Pound, Richard Sieburth (2010). “New Selected Poems and Translations”, p.11, New Directions Publishing

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