John McCain Quotes

Every war has its demons.

In wars, serious mistakes are made.

Oftentimes, discussion of war gets flattened to a discussion of trauma.

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

Bones inside clothes. That was war to me.

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.

If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

War is too strange to process alone.

In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.

There's nothing glamorous about war at all.

War remains the decisive human failure.

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

War is hell.

War is an abstraction.

The war begins to make itself felt very near to us.

One makes mistakes in every war.

War is never cheap or easy.

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

War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning

War is terrible. There is nothing romantic about war.

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

The first time I experienced war, I thought the world was ending.