When we, the Workers, all demand: "What are we fighting for?"…
Then, then we'll end that stupid crime, that Devil's madness-War.

Robert W. Service

More information about this quote

Topic

End of war War

Author

Robert W. Service

Source

Michael

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1921 1920s 20th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Service, Robert W. "Michael." Ballads of a Bohemian. Barse & Hopkins/T. Fisher Unwin, 1921, I. 31.

Illustrated Quote

A quote by Robert W. Service about end of war: “When we, the Workers, all demand: "What are we fighting for?"… Then, then…”
Download
A quote by Robert W. Service about end of war: “When we, the Workers, all demand: "What are we fighting for?"… Then, then…”
Download
A quote by Robert W. Service about end of war: “When we, the Workers, all demand: "What are we fighting for?"… Then, then…”
Download

Related Quotes

Below are one or more quotes that share at least one tag with the quote at the top of the page

Another quote from the 1920s

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.

Thomas Mann

The Magic Mountain

Buy The Magic Mountain at Amazon Buy The Magic Mountain at Amazon
More information about this quote
Topic
Society and the individual Man as social animal

Author

Thomas Mann
Source
The Magic Mountain
Medium
Novel
Language
German
Time
1924 1920s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Mann, Thomas. Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain]. S. Fischer Verlag, 1924, ch. 2.

Current Citation

Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain. Everyman's Library, 2005, ch. 2.

Another quote about War

If the Persians hide the sun, the battle will be in shade rather than sunlight.

Herodotus

Buy The Histories at Amazon Buy The Histories at Amazon
Read The Histories at uchicago.edu
More information about this quote
Topic
Battle of Thermopylae Courage War
Speaker
Dieneces of Sparta

Author

Herodotus
Source
Histories
Genre
Historical literature
Language
Greek
Time
430 BC 430s BC 5th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Herodotus. Ἱστορίαι [Histories]. c. 430 BC, bk. 7, sect. 226.

Current Citation

Herodotus. The Histories, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 7, sect. 226.