John Fowles Quotes about War

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Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.

John Fowles

Love, War, Men

John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan

Even more ominous ... is the fact that since the Second World War a new kind of intellectual has emerged in large numbers. ... he is only minimally interested in the proper intellectual significance of images and objects. Such people are not really intellectuals, but visuals ... A visual is more interested in style than in content ... A visual does not feel a rioting crowd being machine-gunned by the police, he simply sees a brilliant news photograph.

John Fowles

War, Numbers, People

"The Aristos: A Self-Portrait in Ideas". Book by John Fowles, 1964.

I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellowmen. Our relationship with our economic and historical situation. And above all our relationship to nothingness, to death.

John Fowles

War, Psychosis, Historical

John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan

The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself--and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud.

John Fowles

Love, Memories, War

John Fowles (1965). “The Magus”

That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women seetherelationship between objects? It is an extra dimension of feeling which we men are without and one that makes war abhorrent to all real women?and absurd.

John Fowles

Sex, Real, War

1965 The Magus, ch.52.

Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.

John Fowles

Beautiful, Baseball, War

John Fowles Quotes about War

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