Phil Klay Quotes

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

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

War is hell.

War is never cheap or easy.

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

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

War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It's good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is.

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.

War is about dead people.

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

Oftentimes, discussion of war gets flattened to a discussion of trauma.

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

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

War is horrible because it strangles youth.

There's nothing glamorous about war at all.

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

War is terrible. There is nothing romantic about war.

Bones inside clothes. That was war to me.

War is death's feast.

War is hell. You can't photograph a flying bullet, but you can capture genuine fear.

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

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

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 is not a thing one wants.