Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

At the bottom, all wars are the same because they involve death and maiming and wounding, and grieving mothers, fathers, sons and daughters.

If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.

War is about dead people.

I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war.

As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice.

War is never cheap or easy.

I have been through one war. I have seen the dead piled up and I do not want to see another.

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers. All you have to do is hold your first dying soldier in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that his life is flowing out and you can’t do anything about it. Then you understand the horror of war.

In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war that proved bloodier than any other conflict in American history, a war that would presage the slaughter of World War I's Western Front and the global carnage of the twentieth century.

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It's good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is.

Oftentimes, discussion of war gets flattened to a discussion of trauma.

War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

The cost of war is constantly spread before me written in many ledgers whose columns are gravestones.

War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning

War is hell. You can't photograph a flying bullet, but you can capture genuine fear.

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

As a combat veteran, I know the cost of war.

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

The War will leave none of us as it found us.

When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.