Author: Siegfried Sassoon

Quotes

Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.

Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.

- Siegfried Sassoon

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

- Siegfried Sassoon

I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.

I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.

- Siegfried Sassoon

I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it.

I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it.

- Siegfried Sassoon

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