Top 5 Harry Leslie Smith Quotes (2025 Update)

Harry Leslie Smith Quote: “We have somehow deluded ourselves into thinking that wealth is wisdom.”

1. “We have somehow deluded ourselves into thinking that wealth is wisdom.”

2. “I will no longer allow my obligation as a veteran to remember those who died in the great wars to be co-opted by current or former politicians to justify our folly in Iraq, our morally dubious war on terror and our elimination of one’s right to privacy.”

— Harry Leslie Smith

3. “My childhood was not an episode from Downton Abbey.”

— Harry Leslie Smith

4. “In November, when our nation remembers her fallen soldiers and honours the lost youth of my generation, the Prime Minister, government leaders and the hollow men of business affix paper poppies to their lapels and afford the dead of war two minutes’ silence. Afterwards, they speak golden platitudes about the struggle and the heroism of that time. Yet the words they speak are meaningless because they have surrendered the values my generation built after the horrors of the Second World War.”

— Harry Leslie Smith

5. “At what point does what you give up while fighting a war mean winning it no longer matters?”

— Harry Leslie Smith

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