Quotes after the war. Quotes from famous people about the Great Patriotic War

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Wise Quotesabout war, about memory

Tell me what makes you so sad?

The whole world.
Ernest Hemingway

I firmly believe that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war, that nations will come together not to destroy but to create, and that the future belongs to those who will do more for suffering humanity.

Louis Pasteur

“Those who lie about the past war are bringing the future war closer. Nothing dirtier, tougher, bloodier, more naturalistic past war was not in the world. No need heroic war to show, but to frighten, because war is disgusting. We must constantly remind people about it so that they don’t forget. With your nose, like blind kittens, poke into the shitty place, into the blood, into the pus, into the tears, otherwise you won’t get anything from our brother.

How many people lost in the war? You know and remember. It's scary to name the true number, isn't it? If you call it, then instead of a ceremonial cap, you need to put on a schema, kneel on Victory Day in the middle of Russia and ask your people for forgiveness for a mediocre war, in which the enemy was buried with corpses, drowned in Russian blood.”

THIS MASSACRE CANNOT BE CALLED A GREAT WAR...
“If we talk about the attitude towards this war, well, what can I say, I was a very Soviet young man, I voluntarily went to the front, fought against fascism, remained alive, returned, reviewed a lot, suddenly realized that if we drop the word “fascism”, then these were two identical systems that were in a competitive dispute with each other. Two totalitarian systems.

Well, it's clean external difference it was over. There was a swastika, and here there was a hammer and sickle. There was a possessed Fuhrer, and here there was a brilliant leader of all nations. There they openly hated Jews, but here they shouted about their love for Jews and quietly destroyed them. This was the difference. But in principle, two identical systems collided. I began to understand this, of course, after the war, much later. Therefore, I believe that this massacre cannot be called a great war, it is indecent. The carnage is never great."
Bulat Okudzhava

How meaningless is everything that is written, done and thought about by people, if such things are possible in the world!

Something in ourselves prevents us from seeing the full picture of the world!

To what extent is our thousand-year-old civilization deceitful and worthless if it could not even prevent these flows of blood, if it allowed hundreds of thousands of such dungeons to exist in the world.

Only in the infirmary do you see with your own eyes what war is.
EM. Remarque, "On Western Front no change"

I want to live without wars. I want to know that overnight, somehow, guns all over the world turned to rust, that bacteria in bomb casings became harmless, that tanks fell through highways and, like prehistoric monsters, lie in pits filled with asphalt.
This is my wish.
Ray Bradbury, "Rust"

CONVERSATION WITH YOUR GRANDSON.
I called my grandson from the yard to the open window.
-What are you playing?
- In the submarine war.

- To the war? Why do you need war?

- Listen, commander:
The peoples do not need war. Play better in the world.

He left after listening to the advice. Then he came again
And he quietly asks: “Grandfather, how can we play in the world?”

Catching the news that he broadcast in the morning,
I thought: it's time to stop playing with war,
So that children can learn to play in the world!

Could there be anything more absurd than the fact that such and such a person has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the river or the sea and because his government is in a quarrel with mine, although I have no quarrel with him.

And the world passes away, and its desires, but he who does the will of God will live forever.
John the Theologian
Have a soft heart modern world- this is courage, not weakness.
Michel Mercier

War is murder. And no matter how many people come together to commit murder, and no matter what they call themselves, murder is still the worst sin in the world.

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The war will last as long as people are foolish enough to be surprised and help those who kill them by the thousands.

War turns people born to live as brothers into wild beasts.
Voltaire

They will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation will not raise sword against nation, and they will no longer learn to fight. Isaiah
Writing on the wall at the UN building in New York

Over the 6 thousand years of existence of civilization in different corners There have been more than 15 thousand wars on our planet, the direct losses of which are likely to be about 3.5 billion people. Throughout its history, humanity has lived in peace for only 300 years.
During the period from 1945 to the present day, guns on Earth were silent for only 26 days.

One of American astronauts said: each of us flies into space as a patriot of his country, and arrives as a patriot of the Earth. Of our planet. And there's no better way to say it.

Looking at the Earth from above, you feel our planet as one, Living being. Who suffers from fires, destruction, earthquakes. War. And you understand that humanity must unite for the sake of the future. Sooner or later. Better earlier.

It was and remains an honor for me to refuse military service. I have discovered that the real enemy is not the one you point the gun at, but those who stand behind and above you and require you to pull the trigger.

War is not an adventure. War is a disease. Like typhus.

Man rules over man to his detriment
Solomon

War is a way for rich people to protect their interests by sending middle and poor class children to their deaths.

Peace is more than the absence of war.
Peace is unity and harmony. This is harmony.

Do you know that over the past 3,500 years, the civilized world has lived without war for only 230 years?
He said:
- Tell me these 230 years, then I will believe you.
- I can’t name it, but I know it’s true.
- And what kind of civilized world are you talking about!
Jonathan Safran Foer

War is the most terrible thing. People of some beliefs fight for their beliefs with people of other beliefs.

To be created to create, to love and to conquer is to be created to live in the world. But war teaches us to lose everything and become something we were not.

Real victories are victories of peace, not war.

Only in a world free from war will it be possible, for the first time in human history, to make full use of the knowledge and labor of people to satisfy their needs.

War is a political cancer that corrodes the body of the most powerful states.

How worse person thinks about the world around him, the worse this world becomes for him.

The war has eaten away at my soul.
For someone else's interest
I shot a body close to me
And he climbed onto his brother with his chest.
Sergei Yesenin “Anna Snegina”

There are people who consider it fair to destroy those undesirable,
to make the world a better place... their world...

All war propaganda, all the screams, lies and hatred always come from people who will not go to this war.

Cruel century. Peace is conquered by guns and bombers, humanity by concentration camps and pogroms. We live in times when everything has turned upside down... Aggressors are now considered defenders of peace, and those who are persecuted and persecuted are enemies of peace. And there are entire nations who believe this!

The world continues to waste trillions on useless military spending. How is it that it is easier to find money to destroy people and the planet than to protect them?

We live in strange time; the war has moved to a new space. The battlefield has become funds mass media, and in this new conflict it is difficult to separate Good from Evil.

It is difficult to understand who is good and who is evil: as soon as you switch to another channel, the opponents change places. Television brings envy into the world.

The enemy is not Ukraine, not Russia, not the USA and not the European Union. The enemy is lack of love.

To teach people to love justice, it is necessary to show them the results of injustice.

A brilliant invention in the form of military awards. This ancient trick allows any government to make a very profitable exchange. A person gives up his hearing, vision, years and limbs to the regime, and in return receives... a shiny plaque. As a rule, the victim of such fraud is very happy that he was fooled and is proud of the symbol of his stupidity.

The progress of civilization cannot be denied - in every new war we are killed in a new way.

Old people declare war, and young people go to die.
(Herbert Hoover)

The most dangerous species mass epidemic- not the plague or cholera, but a psychosis that covers entire segments of the population. Remember Danish crusade. Or a medieval witch hunt. What is war if not mental illness, affecting entire countries, or even continents?
Boris Akunin

Sayings and aphorisms about the world and life

All huge world around me, above me and below me is full of unknown secrets. And I will open them all my life, because this is the most interesting, the most exciting activity in the world.
Vitaly Bianki

AND the world a person is illuminated by his own, inner Light. The world around us is the way we make it. Man is a kind of lantern. His Inner Light, his love and true kindness is the force that lights up the world around him. And around each of us there is always exactly as much Light as we gave it.
Angel de Coitiers
The main thing I would like to be sure of is that in our world, above talent, above energy, concentration, determination and everything else, there is kindness. The more kindness and cheerfulness in the world, the better this world is always.
Stephen Fry
“Put your sword back in its place, because everyone who takes the sword will die by the sword.”
Jesus Christ

Light is in man. And the world around a person is illuminated by his own, inner Light. The world around us is the way we make it. Man is a kind of lantern. His inner Light, his love and true kindness is the force that illuminates the world around him. And around each of us there is always exactly as much Light as we gave it. The more you open up, the brighter everything around you becomes.
Angel de Coitiers

Every morning when we wake up, we have twenty-four completely new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the potential to live this day in such a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy and happiness to ourselves and others.

I am here on this planet. And at this moment I look at the delightful stars, which with their twinkling want to tell us so much. I look at this beautiful night, which knows so many of our secrets. And if you look closely, you can see how miracles begin to make their way into every home and in the morning they will become part of the lives of those who believe in them. And I see how the flowers enjoy their short moments. Oh, God, how beautiful you have made life for them!.. Oh, how beautiful this night is... So much so that you want to shout “thank you” and let these echoes touch all the worlds!
From the Internet

I will say this, amigo - build your house, give birth to your son, water your tree...
And you will be happy. AND good name. And there will be no war.

The world looks amazing in the eyes of amazing people.

Know how to take the position of another person and understand what he needs, not you. The whole world will be with the one who can do this.

People were created to be loved, and things were created to be used. The world is in chaos because everything is the other way around.

We live in an incredible, fantastic world, but we don’t notice it.

And no matter what language you write, no matter what you have done in your life as an artist and as a person, they can take your body, like some thing, and do with it as they please.
Emir Kusturica

If you change yourself, the outside world changes with you - there are no other changes.
Kobo Abe

Don't rely too much on anyone in this world, because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.

Oh, if you were attentive to my commandments! Then your peace would become like a river and your righteousness like sea waves. Your descendants would become as numerous as sand, and the descendants descended from you would be as numerous as grains of sand.
Isaiah

A person notices in the world only what he already carries within himself.

Nothing lasts forever in our sinful world, not even our troubles.

All this hatred in our world is terrible. Forget about nations, forget about colors, forget about different religions. We are all humans. The only thing that makes one of us better than another is good deeds.

A person must develop an aversion to all military actions and realize that all people are brothers and should live in peace and unity, working for the common good and prosperity.

Happy are those who live, those who truly live, who carry within themselves a grain of hope from which they will grow the whole world- a world of hope, new world, which will be better than before.

Home is not objects worth several thousand dollars and not the delights of modern designers, but cozy little things, the voices of children, the smell homemade food, toys scattered on the floor, a bookcase and just the feeling of your own cozy little world...

They tell me that with my statements I want to turn the world upside down. But would it be bad to turn an upside-down world upside down?

The modern world relieves people of the need to think. Our eyes are replaced by education, our thoughts are replaced by rules, own opinion- stereotypes, desires - commercials. Everything has already been invented, recorded, put in its place... Don’t think, but listen, look and remember. You've already been taken care of. Wash your hair with this shampoo, sleep on these beds, wear these jeans. Yes, of course, you have the right to choose, but what is it for? While you choose, reflect, analyze, time will pass. So don’t bother your head with all this nonsense. Live comfortably, let your every day be a holiday of limitless consumption.

It has been noticed: what color are the words we pronounce, the same color is the world around us...

Sincerity is always attractive. Whenever we meet it in someone, it captivates our heart. It’s only a pity that in our world it resides more in children. In adult society, sincerity is rare. However, like everything real, genuine.

The world is big enough to satisfy the needs of any person, but too small to satisfy human greed.

In no dark or tragic moments of life should we forget the most important thing: the joy that you are still alive, that you can help someone, through yourself bringing a person an atmosphere of peace and protection. Only joyful man sees clearly and can act to the full extent of things.

World - greater good what people desire in this world.
Miguel Cervantes

He who has contemplated the greatness of nature himself strives for perfection and harmony. Our inner world should be like this example. In a clean atmosphere everything is clean.
Honore de Balzac

If you are able to see beauty, it is only because you carry beauty within yourself. For the world is like a mirror in which everyone sees their own reflection.

Happy is he who can see the beauty in ordinary things, where others see nothing! Everything is fine, you just need to be able to look closely.
Camille Pissarro

The world always looks a little brighter when we do things for each other rather than ourselves.
Charles de Lint

If peace is not established between the great so-called civilizations and nations, then it can be assumed without exaggeration that everyone will suffer the same fate and every country participating in the war will sink into eternity...

When you want to break out of the system,
Then you will understand how many chains there are in it:
Built stereotype walls,
Puppets are made from people.

Success at any cost is the “meaning of life”
Love has become a trademark.
Getting sick, giving birth, and even walking is dangerous:
Blood is shed every day for money.

What to do? Clubs, sex, partying and shopping -
Culture gives us such outlets.
It’s bright outside, but it’s dark inside.
This is how the people of Earth live now.
But there are still people in this world,
who are able to support
They live according to their conscience and believe: there will be sunshine!
And they strive to revive morality.

They broke the strings of the system
And they learn to love this whole world,
Help each other with advice and deeds
And live amicably, harmoniously, honestly!
Elena Smolitskaya

I am in despair because people in this world lack compassion, love, common sense. Because someone can easily talk about the possibility of resetting nuclear bomb, not to mention giving the order to reset it. Because there are only a handful of us who care. Because there is so much cruelty, suspicion and anger in the world. Because big money can turn an absolutely normal young man into an evil and cruel criminal.
John Fowles

Nowhere in the world will we find a country foreign to us; from everywhere you can equally raise your eyes to the sky.

The one who has reached inner peace and peace, finds peace and tranquility everywhere.

In a world where there is a lot of anxiety and doubt
Only the one who knows how to love is happy.
You can live without clothes and money,
but it is impossible to live without love!

I believe in man, I believe in humanity. This is the worst and best thing that happened to this world.

ONLY LOVE INSPIRES YOU TO LIVE

The world is full good people. If you cannot find one around you, then be one yourself.
If you want to live in a clean and wonderful world, then start with yourself.

In this world, tired of falsehood, only love inspires, to live, fill yourself with love, and then try not to kill it...
You will not find anything in the world around you that is not in your soul. The more love, wisdom, beauty, kindness you discover in yourself, the more you will notice them in people and in the world around you...

Stay calm. With calmness comes awareness and peace. With peace comes joy. Happiness will come with joy.

The main thing that life teaches a person is not that there is suffering in the world, but that it depends on him whether he will turn suffering to his benefit, whether he will turn it into joy.
Rabindranath Tagore

The best idea in the world won't do you any good if you don't act on it. People who want milk should not sit on a chair in the middle of a field, hoping that the cow will come back to them.

If you don't value yourself highly, the world won't offer you a penny more.
Sonya Henie

Doing good is like breathing air,
A need given to people by God.
Warm the world with the rays of the heart,
And to give, and not to consider that you have given a lot...
From the Internet.

Change the world with your smile, but don't let the world change your smile!

You feel like if you don't see something, it doesn't exist. No, you just don’t notice in the world what is not inside you. Evil person doesn't see good. To the greedy, everyone seems greedy; to the world lover seems to be filled with love, but to the hater - with hatred. The more love, wisdom, beauty, kindness you discover in yourself, the more you will notice them in the world around you.

It’s stupid to hope to do something global, for example, to establish peace in the whole world, to create happiness for everyone, but everyone can do some small thing, thanks to which the world will become at least a little better...

Remember that even though it is raining in the outside world, if you continue to smile, the sun will show its face and smile back at you.
Anna Lee
The more love, wisdom, beauty, kindness you discover in yourself, the more you will notice them in the world around you...

Man with with a pure heart sees purity in everything. After all, the outside world is only a reflection of your heart. If you fill it with love, you will feel love everywhere...

Living in the world without trying to understand its meaning is like walking around a huge library and not touching the books.

They claim that the further the world goes, the more it becomes united, united in fraternal communication, by shortening distances and transmitting thoughts through the air.
Alas, do not believe in such unity of people.
Understanding freedom as the increase and quick satisfaction of needs, they distort their nature, because they give rise to many meaningless and stupid desires, habits and the most absurd inventions. They live only for envy of each other, for carnality and arrogance.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, 1880

In this world, what makes us rich is not what we get, but what we give.

The more I observe the world, the less I like it. Every day confirms to me the imperfection of human nature and the impossibility of relying on apparent decency and common sense.
Jane Austen "Pride and Prejudice"

Avoid evil and do good, seek peace and strive for it.

We humans cannot on our own to do something global, for example, to establish peace in the whole world, to create happiness for everyone, but everyone can do some small thing, thanks to which the world will become at least a little better.

When I open my eyes in the morning, I want to see a more perfect world, a world of love and friendliness, and this alone can make my day beautiful and worthy of being.

Everyone in the world is looking for happiness. Eat the right way find it - control your thoughts. Happiness does not depend on external circumstances, but on internal state. It doesn't depend on where you are or what you do, but what you think about it.

There is no more beautiful feeling in the world than the feeling that you have done at least a drop of good to people.
L. N. Tolstoy

If you want the world to change, become that change yourself.

There are too many people in the world who have not been helped to awaken.
Antoine de Saint-Expury

I want to continue to live in a world where loyalty still exists, and vows of love are made forever...

Peace to the one who is not afraid of a dazzling dream,
For him delight lies hidden, for him flowers bloom!
K. Balmont

God has always sought to unite humanity, and humanity has always sought to separate

Peace is the highest good that people desire in this life.

The collection includes quotes about war and bloodshed:

I am confident that the mistakes of the previous war will not be repeated; we will probably make another set of mistakes. Winston Churchill
Combat experience comes only after the need for it has ceased. Murphy's Army Laws
I consider war disgusting, but even more disgusting to me are those who glorify it without participating in it. Romain Rolland
There are no winners in war, only losers. Neville Chamberlain
Youth who died in war are like spring taken from the year. Pericles
IN Peaceful time sons bury their fathers; in the military, fathers bury their sons. Francis Bacon

The feelings of justice, decency, fidelity, based on the recognition of equality of rights, lose their force in civil wars, when each side looks at the other as a criminal, and arrogates to itself the right to judge him. Friedrich Schiller
In the course of every arms race, there eventually comes psychological moment when war seems the only way liberation from the unbearable expectation of disaster. Alexander Kerensky
Only the victors decide what war crimes are. G. Wille
In any war, everyone attributes success to themselves, and blame for misfortune is placed on one. Tacitus
There can only be one thing worse than fighting with allies: fighting without allies. W. Churchill
War is the greatest disaster that can cause suffering to humanity; it destroys religion, states, families. Any disaster is preferable to her. Martin Luther
It’s good to hear about war, but God forbid to see it. Russian proverbs
War is evil; it is carried out with the help of great injustices and violence, but for honest people and in war there are some laws. You cannot pursue victory if the benefits it gives will be acquired through baseness and crime. Great commander must wage war, relying on his own courage, and not on betrayal of duty on the part of others. Plutarch
Clouds cannot hide the sun, war cannot defeat the world. Russian proverbs
War is not a continuation of politics, but a defeat of politics. Hans von Seeckt, Chief of the Reichswehr
Anyone who has not lived through a single war will never know how beautiful pre-war time he lived. Gabriel Laub
War is a crime against humanity, where there are perpetrators and customers of the crime. Konstantin Kushner
Patience and humility are necessary for both peace and war. John of Damascus
War is a wolf, and it can come to your door. Bernard Show
As soon as good, honest, selfless people unite and start a war in the name of a good cause, soon the worst of the villains inevitably turns out to be their commander in chief. This is such a thing - war, don’t expect anything good from it. Boris Akunin
War is a kind of action, thanks to which people who do not know each other kill each other for the sake of glory and benefit of people who know each other and do not kill each other. P. Valerie
Today it is more difficult to officially sentence one the only person to death at the stake than to untie world war. Elias Canetti
War is, for the most part, a catalog of blunders. Winston Churchill
Most quick way to win the war against poverty - to stop pretending that we are rich.
War is too serious a matter to be left to generals. D. Kennedy
The most humane thing you can do in war. - quickly bring it to an end. Helmut von Molypke
War is a way of untying a political knot with teeth that defies language. Ambrose Bierce
Even cowards can start a war, but the brave must fight its dangers. Tacitus
The war will be repeated until the issue of it is decided not by those who die on the battlefields. Henri Barbusse
Prologue of the 20th century - gunpowder factory. Epilogue - Red Cross barracks. Vasily Klyuchevsky
War imposes tribute equally on both men and women, but only takes blood from some, and tears from others. William Thackeray
After the massacre - victory; after victory - division; and then there are more winners than there were combatants. This is the custom of any war. Honore de Balzac
War is war, but lunch is according to schedule. Russian proverbs
Just as the greatest physical evil is death, so the greatest moral evil is, of course, war. Voltaire
War makes the winner stupid and the vanquished evil. F. Nietzsche
The first casualty of war is truth. X. Johnson
War is not only a shock, but also a spiritual test and spiritual judgment. Ivan Ilyin
No one fights a war with such zeal as the war for home country. Demosthenes
War is a process that ruins those who win it. P. Buast
The country that needs to be conquered constantly has not been conquered. Edmund Burke
War uses best qualities person to do the worst. E. Mackenzie
It is just as useful for a people to fear war as it is for an individual to fear death. Jules Renard
War does not heal people, it only cripples them. Russian proverbs
The enemy has peace on his tongue, but war in his heart. Russian proverbs
War does not solve any problems; victory is just as destructive as defeat. Agatha Christie
In war, everyone is equal in the likelihood of death. Georgy Alexandrov
War feeds on money, war rejoices in blood - this is how it was before us. Danilo Tuptalo
We don’t want war, but we are ready for war. Russian proverbs
War spoils the army. Friedrich Wilhelm, King of Prussia
People decide to fight with greater enthusiasm than actually fight the war, and change their mood with the change in military happiness. Thucydides
War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. Jeannette Rankin
Anyone who isn't completely confused doesn't really understand what's going on. Ed Murrow, on the Vietnam War
War is a denial of truth and humanity. It’s not just a matter of killing people, for a person must die one way or another, but the conscious and persistent spread of hatred and lies, which are gradually instilled in people. Jawaharlal Nehru
Either humanity ends the war, or humanity ends the war. D. Kennedy
Don't joke with war and fire. Russian proverbs
Those who want to fight have no reason to go to war. Russian proverbs
There will be wars as long as at least one person can make money from them. Bertolt Brecht
Anyone who has not been to the war has no right to talk about it. Marlene Dietrich
Wars start when they want, but end when they can. J. Machiavelli
To whom is war, and to whom mother is dear. Russian proverbs
Wars are like legal battles where the legal costs exceed the amount in dispute. Luc de Clapier Vauvenargues
When the war ends, heroes come out of hiding. Yu. Bulatovich
All warlike peoples prone to idleness and love danger more than hard labour. Roger Bacon
No matter how terrible war is, it still reveals the spiritual greatness of a person who challenges his strongest hereditary enemy - death. Heinrich Heine
All mistakes in other areas can be corrected somehow, but mistakes in war are irreparable, because they are punished immediately. Niccolo Machiavelli
Every state is ready to welcome the general disarmament of all other states.
Anyone standing at state power obliged to avoid war in the same way as the captain of a ship avoids shipwreck. Guy de Maupassant
The art of war is a science in which nothing succeeds except what has been calculated and thought out. Napoleon
Winning the battle is not the main thing. The main thing is not to be poisoned at the feast of the winners! E. Lec
And I would go to war, but it would be a pity to leave my wife. Russian proverbs
Where there is war, there is robbery. Russian proverbs
Not a single war has ever begun without hysterical cries for peace. Stas Yankovsky
Preparedness for war is one of the most effective means saving peace. D. Washington
If our soldiers understood why we are fighting, no war would be possible. Frederick the Great

For a conventional army, failure to win means defeat. For partisan army not to be defeated is to win. Henry Kissinger
Stand together for peace - there will be no war. Russian proverbs
For those who fought, the war never ends. K. Malaparte
There are just wars, but there are no just troops. Andre Malraux
Woe to him statesman who will not bother to find a basis for war that will still retain its significance even after the war. Otto von Bismarck
The conqueror is a madman who begins by ruining his own subjects in order to have the pleasure of ruining the subjects of others. P. Buast
It is just as impossible to win a war as it is impossible to win an earthquake. Jeannette Rankin
Sometimes one ruler attacks another out of fear that he will not attack him. Sometimes we start a war because the enemy is too strong, and sometimes because he is too weak, sometimes our neighbors want what we have, or have what we lack. Then the war begins and continues until they capture what they need or give what we need. Jonathan Swift
One cannot live on yesterday's glory in war. Russian proverbs
History proves, unfortunately, that war is in some sense the normal condition of mankind; that human blood must be shed everywhere on earth and that peace for any nation is only a respite. Joseph de Maistre
Every war comes from an adversary. Russian proverbs
Every combat veteran knows that much of war consists of unbearable boredom, punctuated by moments of complete and utter terror. Harry Summers Jr.
All the wars in the world - civil wars: Man sheds man's blood. Francois Fenelon
Once war becomes a reality, any opinion that does not take it into account begins to sound incorrect. A. Camus
Here's proof that we really don't want war: we fight without declaring war. Karel Capek
Wars begin in the minds of people. From the Preamble to the Constitution of UNESCO
Anyone who has never been to war has never drank water during a fit. Russian proverbs
Wars are contagious. Franklin Roosevelt
Anyone who interferes with us uninvited will get punched in the teeth. Russian proverbs
Wars are a glorified atrocity. Seneca
It’s easy to hear about war, but hard (scary) to see it. Russian proverbs
War, which has always been a crime against humanity, is now also madness. John Bernal
The best wars in human history are those that humanity managed to avoid. Baurzhan Toyshibekov
War is a harsh school (check): it makes some young, others it ages. Russian proverbs
People think that if they call the crime of murder “war,” then murder will cease to be murder, a crime. Lev Tolstoy
War turns people born to live as brothers into wild beasts. Voltaire
I fought a lot, but lost everything. Russian proverbs
War creates more bandits than it kills.
We find in human nature three main causes of war: first, rivalry; secondly, mistrust; thirdly, a thirst for fame. Thomas Hobbes
War feeds on money and revels in blood. Russian proverbs
In war, no one makes mistakes twice. Lamach
War can have good consequences among savages, helping to select the strongest and most resilient, but on civilized peoples its influence is usually the most pernicious: it leads to the mutual extermination of the best and bravest. Alfred Foulier
Hope for peace, but keep your eyes open. Russian proverbs
War loves blood. Russian proverbs
Preventing war is more difficult than winning a war. Konstantin Kushner
The war is over when buried the last soldier. Alexander Suvorov
There is no vileness that war would not allow, there is no crime that would not be justified by it. Maksim Gorky
War is one of the greatest sacrileges against man and nature. Vladimir Mayakovsky
The vanquished bear responsibility for the war. Arkady Davidovich
War for peoples is tears and blood, it is widows and street children, it is a scattered nest, lost youth and insulted old age... Ilya Erenburg
Those who pick up the sword will die by the sword. Russian proverbs
War has always been a direct means for external and indirect means for internal unification of humanity. Reason forbids throwing away this weapon while it is needed, but conscience obliges us to try so that it ceases to be needed. Vladimir Soloviev
The elderly declare war, but the young have to fight and die. G. Hoover
War to war. - Wed soviet slogan“Peace to the world!” Russian proverbs
Why not try governments for every declaration of war? If the peoples understood this, if they did not allow themselves to be killed without any reason, if they used weapons to turn them against those who gave them them to beat, the war would die on that day. Guy de Maupassant

Quotes about the Great Patriotic War

Dear Colleagues!

In less than a month we will celebrate one of the main holidays of our country - MAY 9. It is still one of the spiritual bonds for both society and the country as a whole.

I know from myself how difficult it is sometimes to quickly find the right quote for an exhibition or performance, message. I bring to your attention a selection of quotes about the Great Patriotic War, which includes both poetic and prose quotes. I hope they will help you in preparing exhibitions and events for holiday date- 9TH MAY. Previously, there was a similar selection of quotes about the Battle of Stalingrad.

No government could have resisted such terrible, cruel wounds that Hitler inflicted on Russia. But Soviet Russia not only survived and recovered from these wounds, but also inflicted German army a blow of such power that no other army in the world could inflict on it...

Winston Churchill

In the first months of the war German soldiers in their helmets, green overcoats, with their machine guns, tanks, dominance in the sky, they inspired fear. They seemed irresistible. The retreat was largely due to this feeling. They had superior weapons, but also the aura of a professional warrior. We, the militia, looked pathetic: blue cavalry riding breeches, instead of boots there were boots and windings. The overcoat is not tall enough, there is a cap on the head...

Three weeks passed, a month, and everything began to change. We saw that our shells and bullets were also striking the enemy and that the wounded Germans were also screaming and dying. Finally we saw the Germans retreating. There were the first private, small battles when they fled. It was a revelation. We learned from the prisoners that it turned out that we, the militia, in our ridiculous riding breeches, also inspired fear. The resilience of the militia, their rage stopped the rapid advance on the Luga line. German units are stuck here. The depression from the first stunning blows passed. We stopped being afraid.

During the siege, military skill became equal. Our soldiers, hungry and poorly supplied with ammunition, held their positions for all 900 days, against a well-fed, well-armed enemy, simply by virtue of their superior spirit.

Daniil Granin

Do we have the right to forget what peace and freedom cost us? Wouldn't such oblivion be a betrayal of the memory of fallen soldiers, of the grief of inconsolable mothers, lonely widows, and orphaned children? This must not be forgotten in the name of our persistent struggle for peace, which is unthinkable without the bitter memory of the disasters of the past war.

S.S. Smirnov "Brest Fortress"

It is known that the British lose all battles except the last one. This proverb speaks of the country's stability. We, too, were losing the war; according to all calculations, the Germans should have carried out the Barbarossa plan and reached the Urals. Militarily, they were stronger than us in all respects. It's really unclear why they lost. We won because we fought against the occupiers, our war was a just war, from the very first day we knew that we would win. Moral superiority was more important than air superiority.

Daniil Granin

I will take this opportunity to repeat tomorrow in the House of Commons what I said earlier, that it was the Russian army that gutted the German war machine and currently restrains on its front incomparably most enemy forces

letter to I. Stalin September 27, 1944, “Correspondence of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR with the Presidents of the USA and Prime Ministers of Great Britain during the Great Patriotic War of 1941−1945.” M., 1967. T. 1. P. 260

Winston Churchill

On the European front the most important event last year, without a doubt, was a crushing counter-offensive of the great Russian army against the powerful German group. Russian troops have destroyed - and continue to destroy - more manpower, aircraft, tanks and guns of our common enemy than all the other United Nations combined.

Franklin Roosevelt

Under the leadership of Marshal Joseph Stalin, the Russian people showed such an example of love for their homeland, fortitude and self-sacrifice, which the world has never known. After the war, our country will always be glad to maintain relations of good neighborliness and sincere friendship with Russia, whose people, by saving themselves, are helping to save the whole world from the Nazi threat.

Franklin Roosevelt

In all my work, the most precious thing is that dedicated to our Victory. In the 70s, director Carmen invited me to voice a 20-episode documentary“The Great Patriotic War,” where the true figures of our terrible losses were announced for the first time. I remember close-up of people different ages who went to the front from besieged Leningrad, and the words: “Look at these faces. Remember them. None of these people will return alive...” I started to voice it and... I couldn’t hold back my tears. I had to stop. Only after a week did I learn to cope with the lump in my throat and the tears that were coming.

Vasily Lanovoy

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I know it's not my fault

The fact that others did not come from the war,

The fact that they - some older, some younger -

We stayed there, and it’s not about the same thing,

That I could, but failed to save them, -

This is not about that, but still, still, still...

A. T. Tvardovsky

Crossing, crossing!

The guns fire in the pitch darkness.

The battle is holy and just.

Mortal combat is not for glory,

For the sake of life on earth.

A. T. Tvardovsky

Yes, you can survive in the heat, in thunderstorms, in frosts,

Yes, you can go hungry and cold,

Go to death... But these three birches

You can't give it to anyone while you're alive.

K. M. Simonov

Only those people who honor their heroes can be considered great. (Rokossovsky)

Victory! This is the greatest happiness for a soldier - the knowledge that you helped your people defeat the enemy, defend the freedom of the Motherland, and return peace to it. The consciousness that you have fulfilled your soldier’s duty, a difficult and noble duty, higher than which there is nothing on earth!

Rokossovsky

No country, no people anti-Hitler coalition did not suffer such heavy casualties as Soviet Union, and no one put so much effort into defeating the enemy who threatened all of humanity. Not a single bomb was dropped on American soil.

G. K. Zhukov

Time has no power over the greatness of everything we experienced during the war. And the people, who once experienced great trials, will continue to draw strength from this victory.

G. K. Zhukov

After Stalingrad, the army became like a hardened blade, capable of crushing any force. Battle on Kursk Bulge this was superbly confirmed.

G. K. Zhukov

The war required many sacrifices from all the peoples of the world. I am happy that I was born a Russian person. And he shared with his people in the last war the bitterness of many losses and the happiness of Victory.

Zhukov

The greatness of the feat near Moscow lies in the fact that we did not outnumber the Germans in strength... Now it’s hard to believe, but at the end of the battles near Moscow, the norm for shells was established: one or two rounds per gun per day.

G. K. Zhukov

I believe that young people made the main sacrifice in the war. How many wonderful young people we have lost. How many mothers did not have children after the war!

Marshal G. Zhukov

A hero is one who died wisely and bravely, bringing the hour of victory closer. But twice the hero is the one who managed to defeat the enemy and remained alive. (V.I. Chuikov)

And Russia - dear mother -

He will give full respect to everyone.

The fight is different, the time is different,

There is one life and one death.

A. T. Tvardovsky

The truth is that, despite the most difficult trials, we have won. (A. Chakovsky)

Like a child born in labor, -

There will be twice the road

To us the Earth liberated

From a sworn enemy. (S. Ya. Marshak)

Let the living remember

and let generations know

This one taken in battle the harsh truth soldier.

And your crutches, and the mortal wound through and through

And the graves over the Volga,

Where thousands of young people lie...

S. Gudzenko

People!

As long as hearts are knocking, -

Remember!

At what price was happiness won?

Please remember!

R. Rozhdestvensky

Forties fatal,

Lead, gunpowder...

War is sweeping across Russia...

D. Samoilov

In Europe, journalists said to my face: “Why are you running around with your Victory in Russia? We’ve already forgotten.” I asked them: “How many days did your countries resist Hitler?” They are silent. Then I continued: “Poland was conquered in 28 days, and in the same 28 days in Stalingrad the Germans were able to capture only a few houses. Denmark lasted exactly a day. And all of Europe was conquered in three months. And our soldiers had to free her. And at what cost! A million lives Soviet soldiers given for the liberation of Europeans from fascism." But Europe chose to forget about it!

Vasily Lanovoy

Now many want to belittle the importance of our country in the defeat of fascism. It’s fine if Western ideologists do this, but it’s disgusting to see how our home-grown lackeys sing along with them for opportunistic reasons. These people are violating what is sacred.

Vasily Lanovoy

Blooming May! Just like in '45...

Sacred Ninth!

I bow low to the waist to the soldiers,

That Victory was brought to us a long time ago.

And on Victory Day I’m ready to hug

All veterans! God let them live!

Let us not forget their feat, and again

We will thank them for Life!

War, that's what it is - war...

And to those who are scorched by the fierce breath,

That bitter cup that has been drunk to the bottom,

Not even sweeter... with fireworks.

War, that's what it is - war...

To this day, the old wounds ache.

And yet – put on your medals!

And happy Victory Day, veterans!

For the ninth, let's drink to spite everyone!!! For victory in this world and for the tank - T-34, FOR "Katyusha", FOR the soldier... we'll drink while standing, guys!!! We will say THANK YOU to grandfather for the Great Victory!!!

We are RUSSIAN and let the enemy forever remember that only then do we kneel when we kiss the RUSSIAN flag!

Thank you to grandfather for the Victory, for every home that has been defended, for the clear sky, for faith, for the fact that we now live!

I don’t know why, it’s somewhere inside me, but for some reason I cry on Victory Day. This is truly a celebration with tears in my eyes. Especially when I hear the song “Victory Day”. But at the same time, the mood is still festive. Probably tears of memory are combined with pride for one’s people and joy from a difficult, but still Victory.

There are almost none left - WAR VETERANS...

That distant and strong SOVIET COUNTRY...

But the war burst into their youth... Without asking, the war...

Who reached the Victory... Well, someone left names at the graves...

How they defeated the enemy, they themselves and GOD knew...

Boots have trampled kilometers of roads...

And believe me, more than once, death stared me in the face...

And the ring froze in my hand from the grenade...

We know firsthand about that terrible disaster...

From fathers and grandfathers about the great war...

You are all in the memory of our WAR VETERANS...

That distant and strong... that SOVIET country...

Let's bow our heads quietly... Let's just all keep quiet...

Thank you for the VICTORY, to your loved ones, family...

Shcherblyuk Lyudmila

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Victory Day! He froze on the ships,

He raised an eternal flame over the bowl

It rumbles and beats in people's hearts,

It scorches us with song, it rings in verse,

Blazing with posters and flowers.

(E. Asadov)

Victory! Victory!

In the name of the fatherland - victory!

Eternity puts them at the head...

In the name of the living - victory

In the name of the future - victory!

(R. Rozhdestvensky)

Not all soldiers will see a victorious day

Not everyone can come to the holiday parade.

Soldiers are mortal:

Feats are immortal.

The courage of soldiers never dies.

(B. Serman)

“I am an equal among equals with you

I have become a stone, but I live

You, who gave me centuries,

Don't forget for an hour

That I am looking at you from stone."

(M. Maksimov)

“The second front was opened by a Russian woman. In 1941, when she took upon herself all this manly, backbreaking work, when the front, the army, the war relied on her with their power. Well, I’m not even talking about the feat of the same Russian woman after the war: the home hearth, home warmth, song - all this was glowing. And a new generation grew up primarily around women. This must never be forgotten. And, of course, a Russian woman, a Russian woman, is more worthy than the greatest monuments.”

(F. Abramov)

We are soldiers

And this is our glory

Those who died and returned

We ourselves must rightfully tell

About our generation of soldiers.

(N. Starshinov)

Farewell! Over time together

Rolling up of the last wave

We are leaving along the road of honor

Dear people who came from the war.

Let's leave... Over our daily bread -

Great Victory crown

Let's go, saluting the living

The tears of our hearts.

(M. Dudin)

The soldiers in the trenches were crazy

And fell in mortal combat,

But they didn’t spare their lives

For your bitter land.

R. Rozhdestvensky

They say it's posthumous

Our bodies will become earth.

I'm ready to believe

No wonder this rumor.

Let me become a particle

Land won in battle

That land on which

Now I live with all my heart.

(R. Gamzatov)

And I, until death extinguished

In my eyes the last star -

I am your soldier, I am waiting for your orders.

Lead me, Great Russia,

To work. To death, to heroism - I’m going!

(N. Gribachev)

What to do. Memory is to blame.

She scratched like a bayonet,

That on such a day long ago

(Don’t forget this date from your heart!)

War rose up like black smoke.

(E. Asadov)

For the rest of my life

We have enough exploits and glory,

Victories under a bloody enemy

For the rest of my life.

(from song)

O my generation! We walked with you

For the sake of the happiness of the earth through smoke and troubles,

Spots of scarlet dawn on the dry ground

Like a memory of the heavy price of victory.

(E. Asadov)

…I know,

Like clay smells in the trenches,

I heard,

I walked from the Volga itself

to Berlin

Soldier

of your homeland

(V. Poltoratsky)

I have no reason to worry

So that that war is not forgotten,

After all, this memory is our conscience,

She's like the strength we need

Yu. Voronov

Don't forget, don't forget, soldiers,

Those who were buried by the war...

Dates are still responding

To their immortal names

(I. Rzhavsky)

Source

Thanks to everyone who gave their lives,

For dear Rus', for freedom,

Who forgot fear and fought,

Serving my beloved people.

Thank you,

Your feat is eternal,

While my country is alive,

You are in our souls,

In our heart

We will never forget the heroes!

Come on, on the ninth, let's remember them,

Who is no longer alive today...

Who never returned in '45,

Remaining in our memory as a soldier...

And those who returned, but soon left -

I found refuge in that world...

Blame it all on the brutal war,

Giver of posthumous orders,

Wounded souls and bodies,

Bringing so much evil to the living!!!

Defenders! We will honor you sacredly,

And keep those terrible years in memory,