Robert Capa Quotes

People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there.

War is the province of danger.

I do not like wars. They have uncertain outcomes.

The unknown is the governing condition of war.

In war, everything changes. You are very selective of what you do because everything you do can be the last thing you do in your life.

There's never any guarantee at war.

Life is one big minefield, and the only place that isn't a minefield is the place they make the mines.

War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

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

You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.

I go to the airport and I've had everything taken away from me because of the terrorists. People haven't realized yet, though, that we are at war.

Somalia is very dangerous, and no one knows that better than I.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

It is inconceivable that even the gang who runs Russia would be willing to take on war, but one always has to remember that there seemed to be no reason in 1939 for Hitler to start war, and yet he did, and he started it with a world practically unprepared.

There can be no peace with someone who wants to kill you.

The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in risking your life for a cause anchored in some distant political arena.

I'm still bothered by the threat of nuclear war.

Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war.

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.

I think it is rather heroic to go into a war zone where everyone is trying to kill you, and you have no way of shooting back.

You cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things now, they are a part of everyday demeanor.

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

Ignorance is a menace to peace.