Tim Hetherington Quotes

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

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

Several million ordinary folk were killed and several hundred thousand starved to death; none of my acquaintances died of hunger.

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

It's an important fact of life, war.

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.

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.

I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

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

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.

I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.

War is the most serious of the complicated relationships of humankind.

History is a bath of blood.

This will be a war of extermination.

I have come to believe there is nothing in the lives of human beings more terrifying than war and nothing more important than for those of us who have experienced it to share its awful truth

Every war will astonish you.

... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.