Bashir Assad Quotes

A hospital alone shows what war is.

war is not just a victory or loss ... People die.

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

It makes twenty years or more of peace to make a man. It takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.

My subject is war, and the pity of war.

The essence of war is insanity. Destruction, death, women widowed, children orphaned, lands plundered, property destroyed, lives decimated - it's all bad.

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

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.

I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good... war sucks.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

War remains the decisive human failure.

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

I don't think we have to have a personal relation to a life lost to understand that something terrible has taken place, especially in the context of war.

When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

World history is tragic.

It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one slaughter after the other. We talk about it, but no one's really listening.

Do not say that someone has won and someone has lost. These are unappropriate, blasphemous words. We have all been scorched by the deadly breath of fratricide.

In the next war the survivors will envy the dead.

Bloody Ground

in the clash of contending armies and amid the groans of the wounded and the dying, the interests of education are sacrificed – the pacific virtues take their flight from the earth