Boris Yeltsin Quotes

A hospital alone shows what war is.

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

I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.

War is like love; it always finds a way.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

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

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

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

War is hell.

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

World history is tragic.

There are worse things than war.

War is a tragedy. It's not pretty, and in my opinion, there are no winners. Everybody's a victim, from the one who's suffering pain to the person inflicting it.

There's nothing good that comes out of war. It's simply hell on earth, and people survive, and people don't.

The sad fact is that horrendous human conflict is nothing new.

Zeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars until we shall perish every one.

My subject is war, and the pity of war.

What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.

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

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant.

Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war.

Why do people want to kill and maim and pillage? We're all in it together.

So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.

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.