James Dickey Quotes

Having traveled to parts of the world where war has done its usual nasty work on people's lives, I have come to develop a particular hatred for the shape, the look, the sound of the AK-47.

Hiroshima has become a metaphor not just for nuclear war but for war and destruction and violence toward civilians. It's not just the idea we should not use nuclear arms. We should not start another war because it's madness.

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

I played in bombed-out houses and grew up with the ever-present consequences of a lost war and the awareness that my own country had inflicted terrible pain on many nations during the horrific World War II.

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

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

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.

You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images.

The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant.

War is not a petri dish to examine and analyze our emotions.

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

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

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

War is the easiest photography in the business. Just get close, be lucky, know how your camera works. There are subjects everywhere. Everyplace you go, there is something to photograph in a war, like being in the middle of a hurricane or a train crash or an earthquake. You can't miss it.

I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.

So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.

Sending our youth to war is wrong.

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.

War is not an academic exercise.

War is by no means something glamorous, and I don't think that should ever be forgotten.

To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences.

War is horrible because it strangles youth.