Charlie Haden Quotes

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

War is hell.

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

And this I hate—not men, nor flag nor race, But only War with its wild, grinning face.

… those who have never heard a shot, never hears the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated … but cry out for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation.

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

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

Why do people want to kill and maim and pillage? We're all in it together.

Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?

When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.

I think the brutality is important to convey as part of the story, to see how brutal it is to have these kids in battle with one another.

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 is horrible because it strangles youth.

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

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.

The mad, cruel, and accursed American war.

War dehumanizes everyone.

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

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one slaughter after the other. We talk about it, but no one's really listening.

By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief.

History is a bath of blood.

We can easily defeat the armies of Mexico, slaughter them by thousands.... Is not Life miserable enough, comes not death soon enough without resort to the hideous enginery of War? People of the U.S.! Your rulers are precipitating you into a fathomless abyss of crime and calamity! Why sleep you thoughtless on its verge, as though this was not your business?