Andy Rooney Quotes

War is an arena for the display of courage and virtue. Or war is politics by other means. War is a quasi-mystical experience where you get in touch with the real. There are millions of narratives we impose to try to make sense of war.

We came to know each other in war, and in war we continue.

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

'The Red' delivers intense action, leavened by a genuinely sympathetic portrait of soldiers caught up in battles they never chose.

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.

War... some people glamorise war and glorify war. It's not nice, from whatever point of view you come from.

Men ... do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another.

We did not win the war with prayers, but with the blood of our soldiers..

There's nothing but brutality and bravery or cowardice that comes out of war. That's pretty much it.

If you speak to any soldier, even now, they say they are fighting for their friends. It always ends up that they're fighting for the man next to them.

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

In war, it feels like everything you're doing is more important because you're in the proximity of violence and death, and that proximity changes your relationship to America because it changes the way you see the world.

Battle is the soldier's vital breath! Peace turns him into a stooping asthmatic. War makes him a whole man again, and gives him the heart, strength, and vigor of a hero.

Surviving is the only glory in war.

There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.

I have seen heroics - soldiers saving other soldiers' lives - and horrors.

Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan.

War is fear cloaked in courage.

It is a sacred duty to see that each of our dead comrades is escorted through the pearly gates by a large, a very large number of enemy dead. It is up to us now and here after to produce these escorts for the heroic slain.

If there was no war, the young men felt that they were denied manhood.

Men go to war for fear, honor or interest.

There are only two ways to come back from the battlefield: With the head of an enemy or without your own.