Joel Siegel Quotes

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

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

Oh, go in anywhere Colonel, go in anywhere. You'll find lovely fighting all along the line.

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

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

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

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

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

To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences.

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.

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

War is hell.

The civil war now being inaugurated will be as horrible as his Satanic Majesty could desire.

History is a bath of blood.

War is terrible. There is nothing romantic about war.

Bones inside clothes. That was war to me.

War was the ultimate chaos, a pounding, soul-destroying snarl, ending in blown-apart men lying unburied on the cold earth. There was nothing more cosmically chaotic than war.

... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.

It's a good thing war is so terrible or else we'd get to liking it too much.

War is the science of destruction.

The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant.

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 is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

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

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.