Vasily Chuikov famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?
No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
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.
Our main battle has always been against Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers.
You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.
I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.

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