U Thant Quotes

We did not speak in terms of strategy, in terms of overall economies, in terms of production and territorial conquest. We spoke of the impact of the bomb on the homes and the hopes of men and women.

War in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.

To be a good reporter, writing about war, you have to write about the people. It's not about the tanks or the RPGs or military strategy. It's always about the effect war has on civilians, on society, and how it disrupts and destroys lives.

In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors.

When we analyze this war in a materialistic way and ask when is it going to end and who will be the winner and the loser, it means that we do not see the endgame.

There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.

Global war has become a Frankenstein to destroy both sides. No longer is it a weapon of adventure – the shortcut to international power … It contains only the germs of double suicide.

War hath no fury like a noncombatant.

While the nature of warfare is changing and wars are moving into cities, they are also becoming longer and their consequences more impactful.

Do you know Afghan children wear shoes when they sleep, so they can run easily if a bomb falls during the night? Iraq has been similarly pushed against the wall. What proof did the West ultimately have, what justification for raining bombs on them?

'Fall Of A City' aims to convey, in all its emotional richness, the effects of war and the toll taken on city and family by the horrors of siege.

The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people.

War is cruel to the people, and terrible to the conquered.

Whenever you have a war, the civilians and the innocents will pay the price. That's in any war, any war is a bad war.

It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. They do not know its horrors. I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils.

When adults wage war, children perish.

Air power may either end war or end civilization.

War is a dead end, literally. And, what is more, we simply can't afford it. Not morally, and not financially. How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.

Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?

War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

Two great and terrible truths of war are these: War is easy to enter into, but difficult to end. And ultimately, in war there are no winners.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

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