As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Oscar Wilde
More from: Oscar Wilde
DOWNLOAD
You are free to use this picture for any purpose including commercial. A credit linking back to this page is appreciated.
Similar Quotes:
-
That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two. -
All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy. -
When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up. -
We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II. -
There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
More quotes by Oscar Wilde
- No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
- A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
- No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
- Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
- Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.