Help with a war quote

Hi, I need some help with a quote. I can't remember the exact wording or who said it, but it goes something like:

"the measure of a civilised nation is how it conducts itself during war"

it's in relation to the "rules of war", stuff like the geneva convention (hope someone out there remembers what that is ) and the dec. of human rights

 

I don't think the quote you're looking for comes from the Geneva Conventions.

http://www.genevaconventions.org/

I'll keep looking though.

 

Are you sure you're not getting confused with Dostoevsky?

 

nah, it's something about a country's actions during war

 

This might help

http://www.quotationspage.com/

Try searching on that page for war or measure of a civilization or something like that.

 

Why don't you just make one up? Such a statement is no more or less true just because somebody else said it instead of you.

 

Medi said:-

At the end of the day a quote, any quote, is nothing more than an opinion as expressed by one person.

I love quotes - I have some of my favourites on my website - but the problem I have with them is that they can be used to justify virtually any argument. When you see a quote used to justify argument x, it sounds good but you could also use an entirely different but no less valid quote to disprove that same argument.

Quotes are great and can be inspirational but don't see them as something other than they are - the opinion of one person.

 

I agree

 

While we are killing time looking for this other quote, how about putting up some of our favourite war-related quotes? Here are two of mine:-

 

Sadly that quote from Caesar is totally made up

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/caesar.htm

 

Medi said:-

Gutted! You wait until I see the guy who sent me that quote.

 

Now we know who to blame! It's all Barbara Streisand's fault!

http://barbrastreisand.com/ta20.html

 

I'm not sure, but I think it could be either Gorbachev or Khrushchev. Or Sun Tzu? or maybe none of those, although I am leaning towards Khrushchev.

 

I'd just read this exact quote somewhere in this last couple of weeks. I could swear that I'd read it in a book though not online... though looking over the titles that I've been in this month I don't think it could've come from there.

Now this is gonna bug me as well.

 

I found this one.........

Not the same one, I know, but I thought I'd post it.

 

err sounds familiar?

how they treat their animals? ... i heard that before... by ghandi

"The way that we treat animals measure our greatness
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way it's animals are treated."

thats what it reminds me of.

 

This is getting confusing

How do we judge the greatness of a nation that has great prisons, acts badly in war and treats its animals pretty averagely?

 

then that is the answer to your question!