Chris Cleave Quotes

From ancient to modern times, the human animal knows how to find fighting.

There is one hell of a difference between fighting in the ring and going to war in Vietnam.

I think we're living in an age which despises humanity and despises bravery and doesn't need bravery because modern warfare has rather gone beyond bravery. It is a kind of warfare where people are fighting enemies they never see, killing people of whom they know nothing.

The fundamental difference between us and the terror network we fight is that we value every life.

As you travel through the Middle East what keeps on striking home to me is how similar everyone is, and yet the degree to which we can find differences to fight wars over. It requires a great deal of empathy, I think, between various sides to overcome this history and live in peace.

I will not vote to send my sons, or your sons, daughters, brothers, sisters or friends to fight for a stalemate.

People engaged in a war do not lose temper over matters which affect the fortunes of war.

Two armies at death-grips — that is one great army committing suicide.

We shall not enter into any of the abstruse definitions of war used by publicists. We shall keep to the element of the thing itself, to a duel. War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale.

In war, truth is often the first casualty.

When the old men fight, the young people die.

Another of the hard things about being in a war, grandchildren, is that although there are times of quiet when the fighting has stopped, you know you will soon be fighting again. Those quiet times give you the chance to think about what has happened. Some of it you would rather not think about, as you remember the pain and the sorrow. You also have time to worry about what will happen when you go into battle again.

I had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war.

Whenever armed forces . . . are used, the idea of combat must be present. . . . The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time.

If there is a war to be fought, we don’t consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not to fight.

Usually when a lot of men get together, it's called a war.

We don't like to kill our unborn; we need them to grow up and fight our wars.

The lamp of war is kindled here, not to be extinguished but by torrents of blood.

There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.

War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.

They say actually every time I enter the ring, in a way, I'm going to the war. They say to me daily, you are a prized fighter, what's the difference? And I like to say to those critics of the press and the others that there is one hell of a lot of difference in fighting in a ring and going to war in Vietnam.

Was there ever a war where only one side bled?

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting.

If you talk to these young men and women who are fighting, they'll tell you that they think it's a worthwhile cause, and they're fighting for freedom, and they-well, they-all I'm saying-the overwhelming majority of them do.

When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war.