Marcus Luttrell Quotes

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

Soldiers will continue to die in wars that few can convincingly explain why we are fighting.

It would be better if only the old men fought the wars. Every country is the country of youth. When its youth dies, it dies with them.

Sending our youth to war is wrong.

My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.

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.

War is big business. It's a lot of money going to and fro, and unfortunately a lot of angst, and a lot of fear, and a lot of doubt. And eventually a lot of wonderful people, like soldiers, like men and women that are out there trying to do the best they can, they come back being wounded on many levels.

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

We have as a nation been duped by those who use our guilt about how we treated the innocent pawns in the Vietnam War game - the soldiers - into missing the point once again about the utter senselessness that is war.

It’s very easy to advocate going to war if you’re not one of the people who is going.

Im sick and tired of old men sitting around in air conditioned rooms here in Washington, dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out.

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.

It's an important fact of life, war.

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

Having traveled to parts of the world where war has done its usual nasty work on people's lives, I have come to develop a particular hatred for the shape, the look, the sound of the AK-47.

The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning.

War is not some sort of Nintendo video game.

War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.