Michael Berryman Quotes

We often fight wars with our young.

Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out.

The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning.

You give us the mission, we can get ‘em. We’ll rout ’em out. When we’re through with them, they will have flies walking across their eyeballs.

It will plow under every fourth American boy.

It's always the old to lead us to the war It's always the young to fall Now look at all we've won with the sabre and the gun Tell me is it worth it all.

Soldiers will continue to die in wars that few can convincingly explain why we are fighting.

I do not want to send anybody else's child to war.

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

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

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

Nuclear arms kill many people all at once, but other weapons kill many people, little by little, every day, everywhere in the world.

War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

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

When you go to war, it’s very important to kill the right people

If women and children have cruelly and needlessly suffered, if without reason cities have been wrecked, the world should know that.

Killing, and nothing else, is what the army is for, and the only thing it can properly build is killers and killees.

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