Title: War and Peace in Literature and Photography
1War and Peace in Literature and Photography
- Martin Donohoe
- http//www.publichealthandsocialjustice.org
- http//www.phsj.org
2Why Literature
- Vicarious experience
- Explore diverse philosophies
- Promotes empathy, critical thinking, flexibility,
non-dogmatism, self-knowledge - Encourages creative and ethical thinking
- Allows for group discussion/debate
- Valuable for educating health professionals
3Themes
- Honor
- Futility
- Suffering
- Death
- Abrogation of Rights
- Protest
- Peace
4Famous Novels of War and Peace
- War and Peace, Tolstoy
- Red Badge of Courage, Crane
- All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque
- Johnny Got His Gun, Trumbo
- A Rumor of War, Caputo
- A Canticle for Leibowitz, Miller
5The War PrayerMark Twain (1835-1910)
- Written during the US war on the Philippines
- Submitted to Harper's Bazaar (exclusive contract)
in 1895 - rejected as "not quite suited to a
woman's magazine. - I don't think the prayer will be published in my
time. None but the dead are permitted to tell the
truth. - Published posthumously in 1923
6- The War Prayer
- Mark Twain (aka Samuel Clemens)
7Christopher ColumbusUpon meeting the Arawaks of
the Bahamas
- Theybrought usmanythingsThey willingly
traded everything they ownedThey do not bear
armsThey would make fine servantsWith fifty men
we could subjugate them all and make them do
whatever we want.
8John Wayne
- I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great
country away from them. There were great numbers
of people who needed new land, and the Indians
were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.
9William Tecumseh Sherman
10Alexander Pope
- Our business in the field of fight, Is not to
question, but to prove our might.
11Horace Odes (III.2.13)
- Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori
- It is sweet and fitting to die for ones country
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14"Dulce Et Decorum Est"Wilfred Owen, 1917-18
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- In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, He
plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. - If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And
watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His
hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin
15"Dulce Et Decorum Est"Wilfred Owen
- If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile,
incurable sores on innocent tongues,- My friend,
you would not tell with such high zest To
children ardent for some desperate glory, The
old Lie Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.
16Ernest Hemingway
- They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and
fitting to die for one's country. But in modern
war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your
dying. You will die like a dog for no good
reason.
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19Josef Stalin
- The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of
millions is a statistic.
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23SurvivorsSiegfried Sassoon, 1917
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- No doubt they'll soon get well the shock and
strain Have caused their stammering,
disconnected talk. Of course they're "longing to
go out again," --These boys with old, scared
faces, learning to walk.
24Survivors Siegfried Sassoon, 1917
- They'll soon forget their haunted nights their
cowed Subjection to the ghosts of friends who
died, -Their dreams that drip with murder and
they'll be proud Of glorious war that shatter'd
all their pride. . . Men who went out to battle,
grim and glad Children, with eyes that hate
you, broken and mad.
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30Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Every gun that is made, every warship launched,
every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense,
a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and not clothed.
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35The BibleBook of Matthew
- All they that take the sword, shall perish with
the sword.
36Mahatma Gandhi
- An eye for an eye only makes the whole world
blind.
37Herbert Hoover
- Older men declare war. But it's the youth who
must fight and die!
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39Issac Asimov
- Violence is the first refuge of the incompetent.
40Jean-Paul Sartre
- When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
41Arthur Ponsonby
- When war is declared, Truth is the first
casualty.
42Hermann Goering(at the Nuremberg Trials, shortly
before being sentenced to death)
- Of course the people don't want war. Butit is
the leaders of the country who determine the
policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag
the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a
fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a
communist dictatorship . . .
43Hermann Goering
- Voice or no voice, the people can always be
brought to the bidding of the leadersAll you
have to do is to tell them they are being
attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of
patriotism and exposing the country to danger.
44Samuel Johnson
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- Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel
45George OrwellNineteen Eighty-Four
- War is Peace.
- Freedom is Slavery.
- Ignorance is Strength.
46Benjamin Franklin
- They that can give up essential liberty to
obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither
liberty nor safety.
47Will Rogers
- You can't say that civilization don't advance,
however, for in every war they kill you in a new
way.
48Solomon Short
- The only winner in the War of 1812 was
Tchaikovsky.
49Mao Zedong
- War can only be abolished through war, and in
order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to
take up the gun.
50Albert Einstein
- A country cannot simultaneously prevent and
prepare for war.
51Jeannette RankinFirst Female Member of Congress
- You can no more win a war than you can win an
earthquake.
52At the Un-National Monument along the Canadian
BorderWilliam Stafford
- This is the field where the battle did not
happen, - where the unknown soldier did not die.
- This is the field where grass joined hands,
- where no monument stands,
- and the only heroic thing is the sky.
53At the Un-National Monument along the Canadian
BorderWilliam Stafford
- Birds fly here without any sound,
- unfolding their wings across the open.
- No people killedor were killedon this ground
- hallowed by neglect and an air so tame
- that people celebrate it by forgetting its name.
54Eleanor Roosevelt
- We have to face the fact that either all of us
are going to die together or we are going to
learn to live together and if we are to live
together we have to talk.
55Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Our only hope today lies in our ability to
recapture the revolutionary spirit and go into a
sometimes hostile world declaring eternal
hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism.
56Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light
can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only
love can do that.
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58John F. Kennedy
- Mankind must put an end to war before war puts
an end to mankind.
59R. Buckminster Fuller
- Either war is obsolete or men are.
60Albert Einstein
- I know not with what weapons World War III will
be fought, but World War IV will be fought with
sticks and stones.
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62John F. Kennedy
- War will exist until that distant day when the
conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation
and prestige that the warrior does today.
63Günter Grass
- The first job of a citizen is to keep your mouth
open.
64First they came for the JewsPastor Niemoller
- First they came for the Jews, and I did not speak
up, for I was not a Jew. - Then they came for the communists, and I did not
speak up for I was not a communist. - Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did
not speak up, for I was not a trade unionist. - Then they came for me, and there was no one left
to speak up for me.
65Bob Dylan
- Come you masters of warYou that build all the
gunsYou that build the death planesYou that
build the big bombsYou that hide behind
wallsYou that hide behind desksI just want you
to know I can see through your masks.
66Mothers Day Proclamation, 1870Julia Ward Howe
- Arise then...women of this day!Arise, all women
who have hearts! - Say firmly"We will not have questions answered
by irrelevant agencies,Our husbands will not
come to us, reeking with carnage,For caresses
and applause.
67Mothers Day Proclamation, 1870Julia Ward Howe
- Our sons shall not be taken from us to
unlearnAll that we have been able to teach them
of charity, mercy and patience. - From the bosom of a devastated Earth a voice
goes up withOur own. It says "Disarm! Disarm!
68Mothers Day Proclamation, 1870Julia Ward Howe
- Let women
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- promote the alliance of the different
nationalities,The amicable settlement of
international questions,The great and general
interests of peace.
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71Margaret Mead
- Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world. Indeed, it
is the only thing that ever has.
72African Proverb
- If you think you are too small to have an
impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in your
tent
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74Contact Info, References
- Martin Donohoe
- martindonohoe_at_phsj.org
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