Dennis Kucinich Quotes

To be sure, those who are actually engaged in combat - those who actually see the maimed bodies and mourning mothers - struggle more than the rest of us to make sense of the reality of war.

I cannot see the war as historians see it. Those clever fellows study all the facts and they see the war as a large thing, one of the biggest events in the legend of the man, something general, involving multitudes. I see it as a large thing too, only I break it into small units of one man at a time, and see it as a large and monstrous thing for each man involved. I see the war as death in one form or another for men dressed as soldiers, and all the men who survived the war, including myself, I see as men who died with their brothers, dressed as soldiers

In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war that proved bloodier than any other conflict in American history, a war that would presage the slaughter of World War I's Western Front and the global carnage of the twentieth century.

I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it.

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 glad I never went to war.

I don't think we have to have a personal relation to a life lost to understand that something terrible has taken place, especially in the context of war.

There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.

Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

The poets who have written the best poems about war seem to be the poets whose countries have experienced an invasion or vicious dictatorships.

I've grown up, luckily, with only a distant relationship to war and soldiering.

The most shocking thing about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual human beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

Even when you win a war, you cannot forget that you have lost a generation.

It’s very easy to advocate going to war if you’re not one of the people who is going.

The real sorrows of war, like those of drunkenness, always fall most heavily upon women.

We came to know each other in war, and in war we continue.

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.

World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart.

The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.

Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.

I have fought for many years. I have killed many men. I have never seen a foreigner die.

War is never cheap or easy.

None of the Americans I spoke to want to nominate their sons for the Unknown Soldier.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can.

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.