Katherine Dunn Quotes

Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

War is a fevered god who takes alike maiden and king and clod.

Mad wars destroy in one year the works of many years of peace.

I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that war requires. War also requires that we sacrifice our normal unwillingness to kill.

The first time I experienced war, I thought the world was ending.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

War is by no means something glamorous, and I don't think that should ever be forgotten.

Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war.

War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

War is a profane thing.

War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.

War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good... war sucks.

The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.

War remains the decisive human failure.

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.

War is at its best barbarism.

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

I suspect that war will become obsolete only when something worse supercedes it.

Every war has its demons.

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.