Richard Engel Quotes

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

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

In violence, we forget who we are.

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

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

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

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

War is a fevered god who takes alike maiden and king and clod.

There are worse things than 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.

War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It's good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is.

Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized experience.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

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.

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences.

War is a profane thing.

War dehumanizes everyone.

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

War is the business of barbarians.

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

I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.

War is in the eyes.