Alice Walker Quotes

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

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

There are worse things than war.

This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

What can rulers, nobility and all the lords of the earth say to justify the horrible killing and maiming of twenty or thirty million valuable men who a short while ago ploughed, dug, wove, built, guided the traffic of the world, took their pleasure, loved their fellows, cherished their families, and feared naught?

A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes Monsters of Men.

This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.

If the first casualty of war is innocence, then perhaps with each bullet fired, bomb detonated, leader overthrown, wall built, economy destroyed and family member killed, we are not creating goodwill and harmony, but rather another child who believes violence is the only means to bring about change in the world.

What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.

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

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

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.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

War is not a petri dish to examine and analyze our emotions.

A hospital alone shows what war is.

What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.

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

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

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 a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.