Nick Flynn Quotes

Men do things for other men in war that they would never do in peace.

Tragedies ensure in wars. And we’ve seen it in every war. That’s why those who have known war hate it the most.

Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.

Morality is contraband in war.

Sending our youth to war is wrong.

When the war ends, it will be found that there was an equal amount of 'thuggery' practiced on both sides, that terrible things were done to force the final victory.

War's dirty little secret is that some men love it.

As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice.

I have seen heroics - soldiers saving other soldiers' lives - and horrors.

The camera will show the true face of war.

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Nobody hates a war more than soldiers who have been through it.

One should refer to things by their accurate designation. What is happening right now in Vietnam is a form of torture. That is why the bombings are an infamy. Of such there are many in modern history. They are often linked by name: Guernica, Oradour, Babij Jar, Katyn, Lidice, Sharpeville and Treblinka. Now there is another name to add to the row: Hanoi, the Christmas of 1972.

'American Sniper' is a movie. War is a grim reality and with us still.

The abuse of civilians and combatants has existed since the dawn of time.

Fifteen millions of soldiers with popguns and horses All bent upon killing, because their "of courses" Are not quite the same.

The war tried to kill us in the spring. As grass greened the plains of Nineveh and the weather warmed, we patrolled the low-slung hills beyond the cities and towns. We moved over them and through the tall grass on faith, kneading paths into the windswept growth like pioneers. While we slept, the war rubbed its thousand ribs against the ground in prayer.

War. What was it about the prospect of some bloody enterprises that reduced men to the level of animals?

Sure Vietnam is a dirty war. I've never heard of a clean one.

You're never more alive than in battle." "Never more dead after," I say.

Oh, go in anywhere Colonel, go in anywhere. You'll find lovely fighting all along the line.

We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.

I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.

If we can kill Saddam, we should.

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.