Scott Nearing Quotes

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

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

War is a profane thing.

War remains the decisive human failure.

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.

I don’t pray often, but on this occasion I pray devoutly that the Armies of Europe may bleed each other till they faint with the loss of blood..

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

War is a contagion.

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

Every time I come to the States, I wish people would react to war like they react to tobacco, for example. Because war really kills in a second lots of people, thousands of people.

War is by no means something glamorous, and I don't think that should ever be forgotten.

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

War is horrible because it strangles youth.

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population.

War is hell.

War itself is the enemy of the human race.

Baneful indeed is the scourge of war.

War is at its best barbarism.

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

War is a defeat for humanity.