Jean Paul Quotes

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

Losing innocence. Remembering Heaven. That was the essence of Hell

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

The norm was to kill everyone who was kidnapped. And anyone kidnapped was tortured … torture didn’t always work. It left people too destroyed …Torture is eternal. It has always existed and always will. It is an essential part of the human being …. Not one innocent person passed through my hands.

History is a bath of blood.

Everywhere Bulgarians had passed, one sees only blood, dishonor and ruin …. It is a refinement of cruelty which the imagination refuses to comprehend.

If women and children have cruelly and needlessly suffered, if without reason cities have been wrecked, the world should know that.

War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things.

They promptly tore his fingernails out and he started telling things.

War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning

Take your time and strike a man so that he feels he is dying.

War is terrible. There is nothing romantic about war.

There's nothing but brutality and bravery or cowardice that comes out of war. That's pretty much it.

Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.

the sea is made of blood

That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.

The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.

He told us that most of us would die violently, and those who did not would be brought down to the level of beasts.

Violence is the ultimate human degradation.

When one is innocent of pain, of the havoc it can wreak, one is never cruel. Cruelty is born of pain, of a need to hurt in turn.

The things I saw beggar description ... The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty, and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick. In one room, where there were piled up twenty or thirty naked men, killed by starvation, George Patton would not even enter. He said he would get sick if he did so. I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to "propaganda".

War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.

We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.

And they beat. The women for having known them and no more, no more; the children for having been them but never again. They killed a boss so often and so completely they had to bring him back to life to pulp him one more time. Tasting hot mealcake among pine trees, they beat it away. Singing love songs to Mr. Death, they smashed his head. More than the rest, they killed the flirt whom folks called Life for leading them on.