Famous quotes containing the words world, war, forced and/or abdication:
“In every death, a busy world comes to an end.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The war is utter damn nonsense—a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking [sic] malignity on the part of those who don’t do the fighting.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“To be forced to refuse a gift merely because it was not offered in the right way embitters us toward the giver.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“The abdication of Belief
Makes the Behavior small—
Better an ignis fatuus
Than no illume at all.”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)