Siegfried Sassoon Quotes

Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.
Siegfried Sassoon

Soldiers, Guns, Dreamers

I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.
Siegfried Sassoon

Men, War, Political

I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.
Siegfried Sassoon

Soldier, Acting, Soldiers

I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it.
Siegfried Sassoon

Power, War, End

I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.
Siegfried Sassoon

Change, War, Done

I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust.
Siegfried Sassoon

Evil, Seen, Party

In me the tiger sniffs the rose.
Siegfried Sassoon

Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.
Siegfried Sassoon

Life, Germans, Created

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.
Siegfried Sassoon

Time, Death, Soldiers

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: September 8, 1886

Died: September 1, 1967

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