James Laughlin Quotes

We have listened here to the delegates who have recalled the terrible human suffering, and the great material destruction of the late war in the Pacific. It is with feelings of sorrow that we recall the part played in that catastrophic human experience by the old Japan.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant.

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

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.

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

War is horrible because it strangles youth.

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

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

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

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.

The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction.

In Hitler’s frantic mental haze Already Hull and Cardiff blaze And Paul’s grey dome rocks to the blast Of air torpedoes screaming past

There is many a boy here to-day who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell

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

Our sacrifices are terrible. I can safely say that there is no other part of the world which has been devastated on a vaster scale than Yugoslavia. Every tenth Yugoslav has perished in this struggle in which we were forced to wrest armaments from our enemies, to freeze without clothing, and to die without medication

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

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

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

World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years.

Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin.