Viktor Yanukovych Quotes

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

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

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

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

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.

The poets who have written the best poems about war seem to be the poets whose countries have experienced an invasion or vicious dictatorships.

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

Whenever I look at pictures of horrific things that soldiers do or that have been done to soldiers I always feel sorry for everybody involved because politics throws them into these horrific situations where really it's just 18-year-old kids.

Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.

People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.

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

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.

I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.

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 think the brutality is important to convey as part of the story, to see how brutal it is to have these kids in battle with one another.

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

Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall.

War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

I did not want my people killed. I did not want bloodshed.

It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering.

War is hell.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.