Steven Spielberg Quotes

In the extremity of war, character is revealed.

For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.

We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes.

We have been telling and hearing and reading war stories for millennia. Their endurance may lie in their impossibility; they can never be complete, for the tensions and the contradictions within them will never be eliminated or resolved. That challenge is essential to their power and their attraction. War stories matter.

War is fear cloaked in courage.

Nothing like war reveals man in the same strength—their courage, their stupidity, their fears, their hopes, their ugliness ….

War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy, and puts the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to meet it.

Battle... brings out all that is best.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

War is an arena for the display of courage and virtue. Or war is politics by other means. War is a quasi-mystical experience where you get in touch with the real. There are millions of narratives we impose to try to make sense of war.

Heroism is endurance for one moment more.

Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

In war, people find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, and in those circumstances, they act in extraordinary ways. In war, you see people at their very best and their very worst, acting in ways you could never imagine. War is human drama at its most epic and most intense.

War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.

War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

Sweat saves blood.

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.

Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.

Battle is the soldier's vital breath! Peace turns him into a stooping asthmatic. War makes him a whole man again, and gives him the heart, strength, and vigor of a hero.

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.

War is being declared tomorrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under difficulties, but difficulties negligible compared with what others have to go through.

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.

Surviving is the only glory in war.