Erik Prince Quotes

There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

Seen through the eyes of a U.S. soldier, Afghanistan is a scary place.

I think it is rather heroic to go into a war zone where everyone is trying to kill you, and you have no way of shooting back.

Vietnam was my nightmare for a good ten years.

'American Sniper' is a movie. War is a grim reality and with us still.

My eyes are wide open... you serve in Iraq, your eyes are wide open.

I don't have the experience of being in a war.

We lie under the network of arching shells and live in a suspense of uncertainty. If a shot comes, we can duck, that is all; we neither know nor can determine where it will fall." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 6

Some of the shells brought my heart into my mouth; lying there waiting for them was intolerable. I was sure I was going to be blown to pieces.

He could not understand why he had needed so many words to explain what he felt in war because one was enough: fear. ~Jose Aracadio Segundo Buendia After the second banana slaughter

It's an odd feeling, knowing someone is trying to kill you. On the front line, you learn quickly that if you're in the path of a bullet, you will get hit.

I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.

That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us.

When we got down from the ambulances there were sharp cracks about us as bursts of shrapnel splashed down upon the Town Hall square. Dead soldiers lay outside and I glanced at them coldly. We were in search of the living.

Everyone knows what can happen to soldiers who are in front line units.

I was interested in the war part of 'Star Wars,' so I started reading about what it's like to go to war, what that does to you psychically, about the adrenaline and the rush.

As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice.

I understood that 'The Yellow Birds' would be a peculiar representation of the experience of being at war. I intended it to be so.

But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce.

The last time I saw you Gooks was when you were shooting at me.

I had no desire to go to Iraq. I never wanted to go to Mosul. I'm not a war correspondent. No part of me thrives on the adrenaline or anything like that.

I've been in many wars already.

With 'A Hijacking' I didn't talk to anyone who had been hijacked, but with 'A War,' I talked to as many soldiers as possible trying to understand how is it in Afghanistan.

War? War is an organized bore.

It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.