Charles V of France famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.
-- Charles V of France

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A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and air marshals, then the brigadiers, then a bit of a gap and the colonels and wing commanders and passed-over majors, then a steady trickle of captains and lieutenants. As they get older and rarer, so the soldiers are mythologised and grow ever more heroic, until finally drummer boys and under-age privates are venerated and laurelled with honours like ancient field marshals. There is something touching about that.
We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale which no previous age could have dreaded or dreamed of.
War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
I loved her. I loved her with a something so fierce I couldn't even name it.
We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.
No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Charles V of France famous quotes

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