“My father was in the First World War.”– Doris Lessing Related Quotes “The mother’s battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.”– Adrienne Rich “War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.”“- Martin Luther King, Jr.” “The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.”– R. Lee Ermey