James L. Petigru Quotes

There are worse things than war.

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

I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.

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

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

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

War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

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

There's nothing glamorous about war at all.

War is hell.

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

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

Every war has its demons.

Things don’t go well in war. You make mistakes.

I was born and raised in war.

We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.

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

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

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

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

There's something about being amid the chaos and the horror of a war that makes you appreciate all you don't have - and all you may lose forever.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

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.