Quotes by Nightingale, Florence

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large a >>

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick >>

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be >>

Quotations about War

Wars are made to make debt. >>

War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed t >>

We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but t >>

What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.

Nightingale, Florence