Camille Paglia Quotes

Even the bones of their dead should be dug up and scattered.

History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

I'm sick of making bloody history.

The ground was strewn with the dead, the dying, and the wounded—here lay one man with his leg shot off, there another with a wound in his head, another with an arm shot off, and hundreds wounded in nearly all the various parts of the body.

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

The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of man change also; and as government is for the living, and not for the dead, it is the living only that has any right in it.

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.

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

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

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

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

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

A hospital alone shows what war is.

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

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

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

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

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

Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?

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

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

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.

I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis.