George C. Marshall Quotes

Whenever I look at pictures of horrific things that soldiers do or that have been done to soldiers I always feel sorry for everybody involved because politics throws them into these horrific situations where really it's just 18-year-old kids.

My personal opinion is that if someone writes honestly about war, it will inherently be anti-war.

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

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

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

in the clash of contending armies and amid the groans of the wounded and the dying, the interests of education are sacrificed – the pacific virtues take their flight from the earth

Please choose the way of peace.. In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.

This does not mean that you are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. But always in our ears ring the ominous words of Plato, that wisest of all philosophers: "Only the dead have seen the end of war.

war is not just a victory or loss ... People die.

Many, who should know better, think that wars can be decided by soulless machines, rather than by the blood and anguish of brave men.

To the best of my knowledge, no war was ever started by women. But it is women and children who have always suffered most in situations of conflict.

We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

At the bottom, all wars are the same because they involve death and maiming and wounding, and grieving mothers, fathers, sons and daughters.

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

Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war.

I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.

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.

War is like love; it always finds a way.

I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis.

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

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

Having seen war, you obviously learned to hate war.

I did not want my people killed. I did not want bloodshed.