Ed Bradley Quotes

The essence of war is insanity. Destruction, death, women widowed, children orphaned, lands plundered, property destroyed, lives decimated - it's all bad.

War is hell. You can't photograph a flying bullet, but you can capture genuine fear.

War was the ultimate chaos, a pounding, soul-destroying snarl, ending in blown-apart men lying unburied on the cold earth. There was nothing more cosmically chaotic than war.

Both of us will die today, gunned down or smashed up or exploded in some terrible moment of fire and twisted metal, and when they go to bury us we'll be so melted together and entwined they won't be able to separate the bodies; pieces of him will go with me, and pieces of me will go with him.

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

The first time I experienced war, I thought the world was ending.

A hospital alone shows what war is.

War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It's good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is.

I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.

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

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good... war sucks.

When we got down from the ambulances there were sharp cracks about us as bursts of shrapnel splashed down upon the Town Hall square. Dead soldiers lay outside and I glanced at them coldly. We were in search of the living.

I saw a great many men die afterwards, some suffering horribly, but I do not recall any death that affected me quite so much as that of this first victim in my platoon.

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

I was hit by a car. I almost died. My show was taken away from me. I was frightened.

War can be fun for certain people. It's a magnet for sadists, losers, and angry dreamers.

There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.

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.

My mind revolts and my soul cannot support the weight of so much evil: theft, rape, pillage, deaths, and murders, fires and devastation; the virgin violated, the cry of the widow and the orphan; the father armed against his son and each one looking for his brother to kill him; of those who have migrated; of the thousands who have fled; of the bodies stretched out in the public streets; of the bones which cover the fields and of so much blood shed on Venezuela’s soil.

In the next war the survivors will envy the dead.

War is death’s holy-day.

And this I hate—not men, nor flag nor race, But only War with its wild, grinning face.

Every war will astonish you.

When I close my eyes, I still see things no one should ever experience: a bright red light, the black cloud soon after, people running in every direction trying desperately to escape - I remember it all.