Famous quotes containing the words world, war, forced and/or abdication:
“The world only goes round by misunderstanding.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
“... the ... radio station played a Chopin polonaise. On all the following days news bulletins were prefaced by Chopin—preludes, etudes, waltzes, mazurkas. The war became for me a victory, known in advance, Chopin over Hitler.”
—Margaret Anderson (1886–1973)
“A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.”
—Thomas Browne (1605–1682)
“The abdication of Belief
Makes the Behavior small—
Better an ignis fatuus
Than no illume at all.”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)