Phil Klay Quotes

I've stopped war reporting. I realized that I'd answered all of my questions about war and about myself.

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

If a parent wants to talk about slavery or wants to talk about countries where bombs go off, they need to have a way - a setting - to have that conversation. And there are wonderful books out there for those kinds of conversations.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all.

I didn't look very sensitive and they didn't know me very well.

Love soothes wounds, while hatred and violence deepen them.

'Each One Lost' I wrote the day after I got home. My week in Afghanistan was a very short trip, but it was a powerful experience.

Players would empty their souls to me; you cannot fathom the stories I've heard, everything from the good to the bad. I tried whatever I could to work things out.

O, would some Power give us, To see ourselves as others see us!

Soldiers know what war is like. That's why so many of them turn out to be peacemakers.

I've never been to war, and I would never presume to fully understand the horrors that that kind of experience can impart.

I'm desperate to be in the same room as Katie Hopkins. There are a few things I'd like to say to her, really calmly. I'd just like to put forward a case for her to integrate the 'her' that she pretends to be on TV with the 'her' she is as a real person.

Sometimes we are much better at judging people based on how they treat everyone other than ourselves. We make a million excuses for why they treat us how they do.

The healthy can't understand the emptied, the broken.

Why can't we all just get along?

I don't have to agree with everything you say, but I should attempt at least to understand it, for the opposite of mutual understanding is, quite simply, war.

Most of these who are thrust into combat soon find it impossible to maintain the mythic perception of war.

I really don't like to hurt myself. I have a good understanding with all the women who have been in my life, whether I see them occasionally or not.

Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them.

Every time somebody opens their mouth they have an opportunity to do one of two things - connect or divide.

I have heard people say that they felt closer to their parents after they have died. Maybe if I treat people as if they were dead, I could get along with them better

...a truth you don't understand is more dangerous than a lie.

I wanted to apprentice myself to the dailiness of the war's beginning phase. It's truer and more frightening that way - when you're afloat on a little dingy in the midst of it all.