Laini Taylor Quotes

War makes monsters out of men.

That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.

... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.

War dehumanizes everyone.

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

War is at its best barbarism.

History is a bath of blood.

There are worse things than war.

A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company or platoon to ribbons or cripple a man for life: it needed only a quarter of an hour.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make.

The brazen throat of war.

How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.

Little brother, I don’t mean to be a downer, but we’re talking about War here. There’s no way to mitigate damages. He won’t let us. I was there with twenty-five Chthonians to fight him and he spanked our hides like we were Lemurian slave women. Two of us had our hearts ripped out and shoved down our throats while he laughed, then he licked the blood clean from his fingers and came at the rest of us. (Savitar)

War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.

War is an act of violence pushed to its utmost bounds.

War: that mad game the world so loves to play.

War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.

It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.

The essence of war is insanity. Destruction, death, women widowed, children orphaned, lands plundered, property destroyed, lives decimated - it's all bad.

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

I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all - or am I?