Wilfred Owen Quotes

In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war that proved bloodier than any other conflict in American history, a war that would presage the slaughter of World War I's Western Front and the global carnage of the twentieth century.

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.

And the war rages on in a land called somewhere And Generals order their men to kill And to fight for a cause they’ve long ago forgotten While a little cloud weeps on the side of a hill.

War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning

Men died as she watched, and they didn't care about what they had fought for.

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 was told my son was killed in the war on terror. He was killed by George Bush's war of terror on the world.

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

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.

When you go to war, it's important for everybody to know that they're going to come home in one way or other.

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

No one really wants to send their kids off to die for oil.

Oftentimes, discussion of war gets flattened to a discussion of trauma.

But do you know, I shall not be sorry to die. I shall be glad, Monsieur. And why glad, you ask? Because I love France and hate the Germans who have put this war on us.

Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.

I was in World War II; I cried when they took me in the Navy. That's the last time I cried.

Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better.

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.

It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

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

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

I feel like I gave my son to this country in an illegal and immoral war, and I'll never get him back.

We have long honored those who gave their lives during the unfortunate reality of war.