Pierre Bosquet quotes

“It's magnificent, but it's not war.”
-- Pierre Bosquet

Source : Quoted in Cecil Woodham-Smith, The Reason Why (1953)

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“Research is subordinated (not to a long-term social benefit) but to an immediate commercial profit. Currently, disease (not health) is one of the major sources of profit for the pharmaceutical industry, and the doctors are willing agents of those profits.”
-- Pierre Bosquet

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“It is magnificent, but it is not war.”
-- Pierre Bosquet

Source : Quoted in Cecil Woodham-Smith, The Reason Why (1953)

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“To be nonviolent to human beings and to be a killer or enemy of the poor animals is Satan's philosophy. In this age there is always enmity against poor animals, and therefore the poor creatures are always anxious. The reaction of the poor animals is being forced on human society, and therefore there is always strain of cold or hot war between men, individually, collectively or nationally.”

“It is said about Lord Buddha sadaya-hrdaya darsita-pasu-ghatam. He saw the whole human race going to hell by this animal killing. So he appeared to teach ahimsa, nonviolence, being compassionate on the animals and human beings. In the Christian religion also, it is clearly stated, 'Thou shall not kill'. So everywhere animal killing is restricted. In no religion the unnecessary killing of animals is allowed. But nobody is caring. The killing process is increasing, and so are the reactions. Every ten years you will find a war. These are the reactions.”

“Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.”

“To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.”

“No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.”

“Nothing else can fill better colors in one's life like the magnificent nature does”

“We are all one, we are love at our core, we are magnificent”

“When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable.”

“The great creator from his work returned Magnificent, his six days' work, a world.”

“At once i knew i was not magnificent.”

Source : "Song: 'Holocene'". 2011.