Chris Hedges Quotes

The history of mankind is a history of war.

Wouldn't want to miss a war, would I?

War tears, rends. War rips open, eviscerates. War scorches. War dismembers. War ruins.

One war, such as that of our Revolution, is enough for one life.

The brazen throat of war.

We shall not enter into any of the abstruse definitions of war used by publicists. We shall keep to the element of the thing itself, to a duel. War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale.

War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.

No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.

War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it. War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out.

War is the father and king of all.

War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.

You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!

My subject is war, and the pity of war.

On my left the shooting had the sharp explosion of the infantry artillery, on my right could be heard the sporadic cannon shots thundering from the front, and up above the sky was clear and the sun bright.

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

I would be willing, yes glad, to see a battle every day during my life.

Sometimes there is no substitute for military action.

Some day, one state will take up arms against another

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

War? War is an organized bore.

At war a Russian man puts on a white shirt. He may live in sin, but he dies like a saint.

I know of nothing more exciting than war.

War is delightful for those who don't know it