Oscar Arias Quotes

The accounting of the sacrifice is, more than anything else, the attitude toward war memorials in our time.

I have been through one war. I have seen the dead piled up and I do not want to see another.

The cost of war is constantly spread before me written in many ledgers whose columns are gravestones.

I like war.

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 is the science of destruction.

Few Americans born after the Civil War know much about war. Real war. War that seeks you out. War that arrives on your doorstep - not once in a blue moon, but once a month or a week or a day.

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

I didn't expect to find much visible trace of the American war in Vietnam. The Vietnamese are too hard-bitten to dwell on it, and they've sanded away all but the outcroppings of history - the museums, the memorials.

Everything connected with war and warlike exploits is interesting to a boy.

People like to talk about war.

There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.

I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.

I've grown up, luckily, with only a distant relationship to war and soldiering.

The events of war are subject to great uncertainty.

The people, ever greedy for war, till they suffer by it …

War is not popular politically because there is always a cost—a cost in people and a cost in money.

It's always the old to lead us to the war It's always the young to fall Now look at all we've won with the sabre and the gun Tell me is it worth it all.

When the days of rejoicing are over,/ When the flags are stowed safely away,/ They will dream of another wild 'War to End Wars'/ And another wild Armistice day.

Wars: You know how you start, but you never know how you end.

I've walked on a lot of battlefields. Most of them are not haunted.

'Bomber' was the first song I wrote about war.