Leonard Cohen Quotes about War

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There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't.

There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't.

Leonard Cohen

War

Song: There Is A War, Album: New Skin For The Old Ceremony, 1974

Israel, and you who call yourself Israel, the Church that calls itself Israel, and the revolt that calls itself Israel, and every nation chosen to be a nation - none of these lands is yours, all of you are thieves of holiness, all of you at war with Mercy.

Leonard Cohen

War, Israel, Land

Leonard Cohen (2010). “Book of Mercy”, p.27, McClelland & Stewart

Comic books, movies, radio programmes centered their entertainment around the fact of torture. With the clearest of consciences, with a patriotic intensity, children dreamed, talked, acted orgies of physical abuse. Imaginations were released to wander on a reconnaissance mission from Cavalry to Dachau. European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.

Leonard Cohen

Baby, Children, War

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed, Everybody knows that the war is over, Everybody knows the good guys lost.

Leonard Cohen

War, Guy, Dice

Song: Everybody Knows, Album: I'm Your Man, 1988