George R. R. Martin Quotes

War is never cheap or easy.

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.

Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population.

It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering.

The cost of war is constantly spread before me written in many ledgers whose columns are gravestones.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

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

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

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

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

Every time I come to the States, I wish people would react to war like they react to tobacco, for example. Because war really kills in a second lots of people, thousands of people.

War is about dead people.

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

War is hell.

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!

I have been through one war. I have seen the dead piled up and I do not want to see another.

War is not popular politically because there is always a cost—a cost in people and a cost in money.

Things don’t go well in war. You make mistakes.

War is terrible. There is nothing romantic about war.

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

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

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