Evan Osnos Quotes

There are too many war museums.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

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

Few Americans born after the Civil War know much about war. Real war. War that seeks you out. War that arrives on your doorstep - not once in a blue moon, but once a month or a week or a day.

Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid his mailed hand on those desolate towers and ruthlessly torn down what time has spared, yet he could not mar the beauty of the shore, nor could Time himself hurl down the mountains that guard it.

Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.

For centuries, the horrors of war have been sculpted by artists so people would never forget.

When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.

But it is neither cannon nor bayonet that will do the worst damage to this city. No, this place will remember the war against our government just as long as there are inhabitants here.

What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a bit like one always thinks of war, you know, stark scenery and no birds, no trees, no leaves, nothing living. And just emptiness.

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

When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace.

The memory of the Second World War hangs over Europe, an inescapable and irresistible point of reference. Historical parallels are usually misleading and dangerous.

War is like love; it always finds a way.

I never got away from the war. Not because I was obsessed with it in those years, but because it was the event of my generation and I started out covering it so I stayed with it.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

War is not an academic exercise.

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

In 2003, Congress authorized the construction of a visitor center for the Vietnam Memorial to help provide information and educate the public about the memorial and the Vietnam War.

The accounting of the sacrifice is, more than anything else, the attitude toward war memorials in our time.

Killing is the payoff of war.

Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that.