Daryl Hannah Quotes

Generals make plans. Plans go wrong. And soldiers die.

A nation's youths shouldn't be sent off to die.

When you go to war, it's important for everybody to know that they're going to come home in one way or other.

I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war.

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

Politicians start wars, but it's young men who wash themselves with blood because of the politicians' shortsightedness.

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

Oftentimes, discussion of war gets flattened to a discussion of trauma.

Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better.

War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

The battalion, the whole battalion was affected by the two killed just within a week of being there, and I think that that pulled everybody up to make them realise that this was a very serious business.

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

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.

In the Middle East, a nation whose youngsters are not willing to kill and get killed for it is a nation on borrowed time. It will not last long.

Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.

Join the Army, see the world, meet interesting people—and kill them.

We’ve got to accept that we’re going to lose people in this deal. How many, I don’t know. Could be a lot.

Bloody Ground

I have to send people out to get killed.

Young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which ... develops patriotism and courage. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul.