Michael Morpurgo Quotes

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

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It's good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is.

War is not a thing one wants.

So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.

When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.

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

War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things.

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

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

I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.

If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.

War is horrible because it strangles youth.

War is hell.

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

War is never cheap or easy.

I have been through one war. I have seen the dead piled up and I do not want to see another.

War is not popular politically because there is always a cost—a cost in people and a cost in money.

War violates the order of nature and causes parents to bury their children.

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.

War is not a petri dish to examine and analyze our emotions.

Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war.