Leo Tolstoy Quotes

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 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.

War taught me that not everything is glamorous.

Under the olive trees, from the ground Grows this flower, which is a wound. It is easier to ignore Than the heroes' sunset fire Of death plunged in their willed desire Raging with flags on the world's shore.

One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot.

There's nothing glorious about war. There's nothing glorious about holding your friends in your arms and watching them die. There's nothing glorious about having to leave your home for 6 to 8 months while your family's back here and you're away.

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.

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that war requires. War also requires that we sacrifice our normal unwillingness to kill.

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

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

As a combat veteran, I know the cost of war.

A hospital alone shows what war is.

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.

At the bottom, all wars are the same because they involve death and maiming and wounding, and grieving mothers, fathers, sons and daughters.

Blood and death. That moves me.

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

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

The War will leave none of us as it found us.

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.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.

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

There's nothing glamorous about war at all.

War is about dead people.