War Quotes by Jacqueline Winspear

Jacqueline Winspear

As Churchill said about the Great War, and he said this in about 1924, that it was the first war in which man realized that he could obliterate himself completely. If you consider the way the whole world was impacted, 18 million people worldwide died, and that is taking into account military and civilian deaths: 18 million people. And it was the whole world, if you will. You know, many of those trenches were dug by Chinese. There are photographs of Chinese looking like they just came from China, with their hats and so on, digging the trenches, right from the beginning.

Men

Military

War

Jacqueline Winspear

But there are many men-and women-who do things in a time of war that they wouldn’t dream of doing in peacetime, and all for the common good.

Dream

Men

War

Jacqueline Winspear

I often think it would be really interesting to take all of those who would wage war to the battlefield cemeteries, and say, explain yourself to the dead. Explain yourself to the dead!

Interesting

Thinking

War

Jacqueline Winspear

I think that one of the things that we all ask ourselves, whoever we are, is: who stands to make a lot of money out of this [wars]? And, certainly, it comes back to people like armaments makers, and so on and so forth.

People

Thinking

War

Jacqueline Winspear

If you look at the First World War, the Kaiser was actually, actively buying a lot of the armaments from Britain! in the years, in the run-up to the First World War. And I mean, there was a connection there. He was, indeed, Queen Victoria’s grandson. You know, they were all related, all these royal families.

Queens

Running

War

Jacqueline Winspear

in this great war [WWI] … they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. The freedom to think hopefully of the future.

Hope

Thinking

War

Jacqueline Winspear

It was Harry Patch, who was the last living World War I veteran; and by veteran I mean someone who actually fought in the war, he didn’t just happen to be in the army at that time, in the Great War. And when the Iraq War started, he was interviewed, and they said, well what do you think of this? And he said, in a very sad voice, “Well, that’s why my mates died. We thought we were going to end all that sort of thing.”

Army

Mean

War

Jacqueline Winspear

What does anyone really know about the impetus to go to war? And so much is uncovered in hindsight. And there are aspects of even past wars that are only coming out now. Historians discover letters here, notes there, and look very carefully at different aspects of not only any conflict but any great historical event.

Historical

Past

War

Follow The Behaviour University in order to get the greatest quotes from the greatest people of all time so that you can tap into your own greatness.

Vivien Leigh

Laura E. Richards

Mary Boykin Chesnut

Jean Plaidy

Dmitriy Ustinov

Anchors

Answers

Anxiety

Aristocracy

Army

Art

Art Of Living

Believe

Book

Car

Certain

Chains That Bind

Character

Coincidence

College

Distance

Doe

Dream

Editors

Eras

Fun

Heart

Heartfelt

Helping Others

Hero

Historical

Hope

Hot

Inquiry

Interesting

Intuition

Jewels

Jobs

Journey

Judging

Keys

Landscape

Leaving

Life

Links

Mean

Memories

Men

Messengers

Military

Missing

Mountain

Moving

Nurse

Past

People

Queens

Real

Riches

Running

Steps

Teach

Testing

Thinking

Time

Time To Move On

Trouble

Uniforms

Waiting

War

Way

Worry

War Quotes by Jacqueline Winspear

But there are many men-and women-who do things in a time of war that they wouldn’t dream of doing in peacetime, and all for the common good.

I often think it would be really interesting to take all of those who would wage war to the battlefield cemeteries, and say, explain yourself to the dead. Explain yourself to the dead!

I think that one of the things that we all ask ourselves, whoever we are, is: who stands to make a lot of money out of this [wars]? And, certainly, it comes back to people like armaments makers, and so on and so forth.

in this great war [WWI] … they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. The freedom to think hopefully of the future.

Get Social with TBU

War Quotes by

Vivien Leigh

Laura E. Richards

Mary Boykin Chesnut

Jean Plaidy

Dmitriy Ustinov

Topics by Jacqueline Winspear

Menu

Menu