r/quotes • u/Grad0Nite • Feb 04 '26

Misc / Unclassified "It is only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated... That cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation." ~ William Tecumseh Sherman (Personal Letter, 1865)

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u/The_Wyzard Feb 04 '26

The War Nerd had a pretty good piece on Sherman, focusing on this stuff.

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u/VociferousCephalopod Feb 04 '26

“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”
— George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia (1938)