Bashir Assad Quotes

I think about Syria when I go to bed at night.

One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot.

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

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

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

The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.

Syria cannot continue this way—killing their people

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

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

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

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity.

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

We shall destroy Israel and prepare boats to deport the survivors, if there are any.

When I wake up in the morning, I think about Syria.

We feel pain for every Syrian victim.

What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.

War is not a petri dish to examine and analyze our emotions.

War is not a thing one wants.

I can't quite remember the exact moment when I became obsessed with writing a play about the seemingly endless war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but I knew that I wanted to somehow tell the stories of the Congolese women caught in the cross-fire.

Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.

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

Violence in Darfur is cataclysmic.

Having traveled to parts of the world where war has done its usual nasty work on people's lives, I have come to develop a particular hatred for the shape, the look, the sound of the AK-47.