Charles Frazier Quotes

It's very unfortunate that war has always been and probably always will be a part of human beings on this planet. It's a terrible thing.

How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.

... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.

There are scenes here and effects here that would make George S. Patton wince.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.

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 sweet to those who have not experienced it.

Having seen war, you obviously learned to hate war.

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

Every war has its demons.

History is a bath of blood.

I have come to believe there is nothing in the lives of human beings more terrifying than war and nothing more important than for those of us who have experienced it to share its awful truth

Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds, it is a fallacy that must be exposed: war is such a dangerous business that the mistakes which come from kindness are the very worst

War is always a matter of doing evil in the hope that good may come of it.

What’s so civil about war anyway?

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.

The drama can only be brought to its climax in one of two ways -- through the selective brutality of terrorism or the impartial horrors of war.

The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat, is sufficient to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and the horror of war.

War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!

War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil.

That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.

The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make.

True wars are never won.