Don McCullin Quotes

We should have known better after the first war.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography.

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

Every time Germany has been unified, there has been war and suffering.

Not only do wars create incredible suffering, but they engender deep hatreds that can last for generations.

We've built the largest empire in the history of the world. It's been done over the last 50 years since World War II with very little military might, actually. It's only in rare instances like Iraq where the military comes in as a last resort.

War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, consolidates nations, and indeed, constitutes the principal factor in the progress of civilization through its successive stages.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

It's an important fact of life, war.

The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.

For eight years, you had the Bush administration with a very interventionist policy, driving into world affairs, driving primarily into the Islamic world, army first or fist first.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.

I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.

All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.

War is the most serious of the complicated relationships of humankind.

You help us pay for the war we’ll fight; we’ll launch it while you’re asleep at night. We don’t need friends all around the world; We’ll buy our friends with our flag unfurled, And spread our arms on a global scale To show the world that we still prevail. Oh, we’re not leaders inspiring peace, But we’re in power as the world’s police. So pay your tax for our little war, And we’ll not ask for any more. This year!

The whole history of the world, on its broader lines, has been one of race conflict, wars, subjugation or extinction.

The unnecessary result of wartime hysteria.

Let the natural process of war among nations smother the weak.

No nation has ever ridden to superpower status except on a tide of war and that includes the United States.

Is it worth the sacrifice so that little girls can go to school? Or are we simply doing the bidding of the neo-imperialist Americans? Why can’t we bring the soldiers home and just build the schools?

Every nation is a band of robbers, who prey without restraint, or remorse, on their neighbors.

All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.