Aldous Huxley Quotes

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war.

So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

War is horrible because it strangles youth.

Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population.

It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering.

I don't think we have to have a personal relation to a life lost to understand that something terrible has taken place, especially in the context of war.

War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things.

War violates the order of nature and causes parents to bury their children.

All wars are tragedies, but not all wars are sins.

War is never a choice between a good choice and a bad choice. It is a choice between a bad choice and a worse choice.

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

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.

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

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

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

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

War is not a thing one wants.

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

War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.

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

The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in risking your life for a cause anchored in some distant political arena.

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