Nicholas Kristof Quotes

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

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

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

The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.

I think sadness prevails in Syria now. We don't feel anything else but sadness because we have this killing every day, whether with chemical or any other kind.

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

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

War is not a thing one wants.

When you see a 14-year-old boy who has never known what peace looks like for a day in his life, there's part of you as a human being that feels some degree, you can say, compassion for the fact that these boys have known war, famine, violence and death from the day they were born.

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.

War is horrible because it strangles youth.

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

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.

War is death’s holy-day.

War is never cheap or easy.

While migration is inevitable, the fact remains that most people leave their homes to escape violence and the certain persecution that comes from it.

No place is safe - no place is at peace. There is no place where a women and her daughter can hide and be at peace. The war comes through the air, bombs drop in the night. Quiet people go out in the morning, and see air-fleets passing overhead - dripping death - dripping death!

War is death's feast.

We suffer with those who have disappeared, those who have had to flee their homes, and those who have been tortured.

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

Every shot that kills ricochets.

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.