Gerald Scarfe Quotes

War is horrible because it strangles youth.

War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.

The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant.

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

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

War remains the decisive human failure.

It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering.

War itself is the enemy of the human race.

It makes twenty years or more of peace to make a man. It takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.

War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things.

War violates the order of nature and causes parents to bury their children.

War is a fevered god who takes alike maiden and king and clod.

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.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

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.

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 not a thing one wants.

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 couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.

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 a profane thing.

There's nothing glamorous about war at all.

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.