Chris Kyle Quotes

Every time I come to the States, I wish people would react to war like they react to tobacco, for example. Because war really kills in a second lots of people, thousands of people.

I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya.

We must hunt the terrorists down and kill them. There is no other way to respond to those so committed to the destruction of life.

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they?

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.

A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea. I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.

I have fought for many years. I have killed many men. I have never seen a foreigner die.

You give us the mission, we can get ‘em. We’ll rout ’em out. When we’re through with them, they will have flies walking across their eyeballs.

This is the Middle East. None of the people who were involved with this will be allowed to live.

You may not like to go to war, but war will come to you.

You don't start shooting rockets at Israel and expect that we'll just sit back supinely and die.

This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.

War! When I but think of this word, I feel bewildered, as though they were speaking to me of sorcery, of the Inquisition, of a distant, finished, abominable, monstrous, unnatural thing. When they speak to us of cannibals, we smile proudly, as we proclaim our superiority to these savages. Who are the real savages? Those who struggle in order to eat those whom they vanquish, or those who struggle merely to kill?

War is not about flag-waving and patriotism. War is about killing and death.

You can be killed just as dead in an unjustified war as you can in one protecting your own home.

You never kill any one that you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting.

The world hates us, but the bottom line is we're gonna have to show the world why they hate us by bombing the hell out of some people that have been hurting us. That's all. That's the end of it.

Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?

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

As I watch what is happening in the Middle East and the carnage that comes over our television screens every evening, I cannot help but ask myself, what is wrong with humankind that we cannot stop the killing?

If we can kill Saddam, we should.

War is the science of destruction.