William McKinley Quotes

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

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

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

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

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

War is never cheap or easy.

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

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

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

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

War is too strange to process alone.

War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good... war sucks.

There's nothing glamorous about war at all.

War is devastating, and it leaves its scars for generations.

Every war has its demons.

In the next war the survivors will envy the dead.

The cost of war is constantly spread before me written in many ledgers whose columns are gravestones.

Bones inside clothes. That was war to me.

I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.

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

The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant.

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.

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