Albert Bushnell Hart Quotes

He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.

We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.

There's nothing glorious about war. There's nothing glorious about holding your friends in your arms and watching them die. There's nothing glorious about having to leave your home for 6 to 8 months while your family's back here and you're away.

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.

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

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

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant.

There's something about being amid the chaos and the horror of a war that makes you appreciate all you don't have - and all you may lose forever.

The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war.

I saw Kuwait many times before the war. I remember it as a beautiful place, full of very nice people, and it's a tragedy to see that somebody could set out to deliberately destroy a country the way the Iraqis have.

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

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.

A hospital alone shows what war is.

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

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.

I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country.

Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.

I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers.

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.

There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply.

War is like love; it always finds a way.