Vlade Divac Quotes

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.

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

I have been through two wars in my 24 years, and I know what it's like to be without anything, to see the bombs flying above your head.

The war begins to make itself felt very near to us.

The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.

Wars are detested by mothers.

I was born and raised in war.

When I was 10 years old, I fled my homeland amid the bomb blasts of civil war in Sudan.

But what a cruel thing is war to separate and destroy families and friends.

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

In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war that proved bloodier than any other conflict in American history, a war that would presage the slaughter of World War I's Western Front and the global carnage of the twentieth century.

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.

In the summer of 1988, my father took me up to look at the remains of our home, the dream house that he'd built. It was my first time since our family left four years earlier. Political and obscene graffiti covered the half-torn walls. There was no ceiling and surprisingly no floor: the parquet, the stone, the marble, all looted.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

There's something about being amid the chaos and the horror of a war that makes you appreciate all you don't have - and all you may lose forever.

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

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 only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.

So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.

Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.

Sri Lankans of every kind, overwhelmingly the poorest, have been bombed by one side or the other for decades.

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.

There's nothing glamorous about war at all.

Yes, life in Chechnya so far looks more like a life after a natural disaster.