George Steiner War Quotations

We are still waging Peloponnesian wars. Our control of the material world and our positive science have grown fantastically. But our very achievements turn against us, making politics more random and wars more bestial.

I have students who are now in chairs in five continents. They invite me to their inaugurals. A tremendous reward.

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.