Anthony Minghella Quotes

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

War is horrible because it strangles youth.

There's nothing glamorous about war at all.

War is hell.

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

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

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.

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

The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want people to understand the absolute futility of war, the 'pity of war' as Wilfred Owen called it.

I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.

It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.

When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

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

The mad, cruel, and accursed American war.

War remains the decisive human failure.

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

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.

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.

War is a defeat for humanity.

That cause was one of the worst for which men have ever fought..

War is a fevered god who takes alike maiden and king and clod.