"The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people." ― Ezra Pound Topic(s): War More From Ezra Pound "Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand." "Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance… poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music." "It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week." More In War "Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‘people.’ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest."― C. S. Lewis "On the justification for the war, it wasn’t related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction."― Stephen Harper "The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem."― Washington Irving