More From Desiderius Erasmus
- "Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed."
- "When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes."
- "Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?"
More In War
- "The real war will never get in the books."― Walt Whitman
- "I’m not so sure that people consider homelessness to be as important as, say, the Vietnam War. One should never even try to equate them because, of course, they’re tragedies on both sides of the coin."― Graham Nash
- "All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it."― Alexis de Tocqueville