Ernest Hemingway Quotes
Ernest Miller Hemingway Quotations

American novelist and short-story writer
Also a veteran from WW1 and WW2
Lived: 1899–1961
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Ernest Hemingway Quotes/Quotations

"Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat
brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war."
- Ernest Hemingway

"For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority,
just cause, right motive."
- Ernest Hemingway

"Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the
weaker form with the positive object."
- Ernest Hemingway

"I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more
revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very
destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method
of settling international disputes."
- Ernest Hemingway

"Wars are caused by undefended wealth."
- Ernest Hemingway

"The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and
morale."
- Ernest Hemingway

"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a
crime."
- Ernest Hemingway

"In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason."
- Ernest Hemingway

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