John Boyne Quotes

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

I saw some war heroes... John Kerry is not a war hero. He couldn't tie the shoes of some of the people in Coastal Division 11.

A true war story is never moral.

For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense.

It's always been my dream to be in a war film.

Surviving is the only glory in war.

The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war.

War is fear cloaked in courage.

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.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.

What shall I say further? Shall I not stop short and leave to your imaginations to portray the tragic deeds of war? Is it not enough that I here leave it even to unexperience to fancy the hardships, the anxieties, the dangers, even of the best life of a soldier?

Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage.

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

Israel should not feel satisfaction at my son's death, for he died on the battlefield, facing the conquerors as he wished, with a gun in his hand.

Ask any soldier. To kill a man is to merit a woman.

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.

For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced.

I've grown up, luckily, with only a distant relationship to war and soldiering.

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

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can.

The generals were fighting machine guns with the breasts of gallant men.