Geraldine Brooks Quotes

I've stopped war reporting. I realized that I'd answered all of my questions about war and about myself.

I'm not a war photographer. I've always dealt with the consequences of conflict.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.

The funny thing about war is that people feel you need to be morally outraged. I feel morally outraged about it, and I've been doing it for long enough to feel morally outraged, because I have been in massacre scenes in West Africa, and I've been doing this for a long time now.

Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the city flattened by an earthquake, the village swallowed by a flood, the farm hollowed out by famine.

War is not cheap, but it's the human cost that's the highest.

I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

It's an important fact of life, war.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

Before journalism, I had worked doing medical aid work in conflict zones. Then, as a journalist, I had written about hospitals in war zones.

The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War.

I'm not a wide-eyed imperialist who wants to see Americans manning outposts all over the world. Not outposts to freedom in the cold war cliche, but islands of stability and seas of ethnic strife. That is not what anyone should feel comfortable seeing Americans doing.

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

Intervention continues to be a prominent dimension of the post-cold war world.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

We have a substantial number of countries that have pledged and provided all kinds of support for the United States in the event that war becomes necessary in Iraq.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences.

War never accomplishes anything. It's never going to look good in the history books. People are never going to look back and think, 'He started a lot of wars; what a great leader he was!' That's not the way it works. God knows how many more of these things we're going to need before it starts to sink in.

War is a defeat for humanity.

War is the greatest failure of mankind.