Jeff Ross Quotes

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

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

War is not a thing one wants.

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

Even a war zone looks peaceful in most places, most of the time.

In war, people find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, and in those circumstances, they act in extraordinary ways. In war, you see people at their very best and their very worst, acting in ways you could never imagine. War is human drama at its most epic and most intense.

I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya.

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

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'

It's a war zone, my body, and one which has been through a great deal.

War taught me that not everything is glamorous.

In war, it feels like everything you're doing is more important because you're in the proximity of violence and death, and that proximity changes your relationship to America because it changes the way you see the world.

But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up. He is fighting for his life, and killing now for him is as much a profession as writing is for me.

When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.

War is an abstraction.

It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.

War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.

There never is a convenient place to fight a war when the other man starts it.

War... some people glamorise war and glorify war. It's not nice, from whatever point of view you come from.

War is show business.

I have fought for many years. I have killed many men. I have never seen a foreigner die.

War is a last and terrible defense of even a righteous cause, and sets at defiance all the ordinary laws and customs of society.

Blow them [the Russians] off the face of the earth, quick, before they do the same to us. We haven't much time.

Terrour ... makes short warres