Quote by George Eliot

It is doubtful whether our soldiers would be maintained if there were not pacific people at home who like to fancy themselves soldiers. War, like other dramatic spectacles, might possibly cease for want of a public.

It is doubtful whether our soldiers would be maintained if t

Summary

This quote suggests that war and military engagement are sustained by the support and fascination of people at home who romanticize the idea of being soldiers. The author argues that if there were no pacifistic individuals who idealize the notion of being in the military, wars may not occur or the need for soldiers may diminish. The quote implies that wars and military actions have a theatrical nature and their continuation depends on public interest and support.

Topics

War People Home Thepublic

By George Eliot

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Patriotism is not obedience to government. Patriotism is ob

Patriotism is not obedience to government. Patriotism is obedience to the principals for which government is supposed to stand.

Politics Government Patriotism

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

George Bernard Shaw

Family Service Mankind Socialservice

We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; a

We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war.

Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet

War

But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No on

But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.

Life Dreams Defeat Struggle Suffering

I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurpe

I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Love Man

They who are in the highest places, and have the most power,

They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.

Liberty

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women hav

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

Men

I will continue to work as hard as I can to make this organi

I will continue to work as hard as I can to make this organization proud. Every time I step on the field I will give everything I have and I will leave everything I have on the field every single Sunday.

Time

Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged

Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.

Famous

I can keep a perfectly good eye on Simon, thank you. He's my

I can keep a perfectly good eye on Simon, thank you. He's my neophyte Downworlder to mock and boss around, not yours.

Cassandra Clare

Simon Lewis Jace Lightwood City Of Fallen Angels Jordan Kyle

If you expect the worse, you're only denying someone a chanc

If you expect the worse, you're only denying someone a chance to be better

Life Chance People

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singulari

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity --it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

Poetry