Isaac Asimov Quotes

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

When you have warfare, things happen; people suffer; the noncombatants suffer as well as the combatants. And so it happens in civil war.

It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering.

To be sure, those who are actually engaged in combat - those who actually see the maimed bodies and mourning mothers - struggle more than the rest of us to make sense of the reality of war.

War is not cheap, but it's the human cost that's the highest.

If you're going to write about war, which my books are about, wars are nasty things. I think it's sort of a cheap, easy way out to write a war story in which no one ultimately dies.

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?

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

War is not an academic exercise.

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

War is a defeat for humanity.

Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.

We talk about war in America, we talk about it on an intellectual level. We don’t talk about the sound or smells of war…the pain

You can hide the caskets but you can’t hide the casualties.

War hath no fury like a noncombatant.

Even when you win a war, you cannot forget that you have lost a generation.

At least eighty thousand of our sons are dead or mangled. A million more will die of poverty and disease. Every issue could have been settled and better settled without the loss of a drop of blood

My message was one of death for young men. How odd it is to applaud that.

Wars shatter so many lives. I think especially of children robbed of their childhood.

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

War can't give life, it can only take it away.

Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.

I've seen firsthand the high human cost of war.

War would end if the dead could return.