Gavin Hood Quotes

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

As a combat veteran, I know the cost of war.

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

As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice.

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

I didn't see conflict during the Vietnam War, but I did lose close friends.

When you go to war, it's important for everybody to know that they're going to come home in one way or other.

My father had gone to Vietnam.

We have long honored those who gave their lives during the unfortunate reality of war.

As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.

Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can.

Nobody hates a war more than soldiers who have been through it.

Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?

I do not want to send anybody else's child to war.

A nation's youths shouldn't be sent off to die.

You know, I had gone to war.

I was in World War II; I cried when they took me in the Navy. That's the last time I cried.

War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.

It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.

The battalion, the whole battalion was affected by the two killed just within a week of being there, and I think that that pulled everybody up to make them realise that this was a very serious business.

I'm glad I never went to war.

War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

Everything starts and finishes with the soldier.