George W. Bush Quotes

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

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

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

War is horrible because it strangles youth.

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

There's nothing glamorous about war at all.

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

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

War is hell.

I have been through one war. I have seen the dead piled up and I do not want to see another.

The cost of war is constantly spread before me written in many ledgers whose columns are gravestones.

War is terrible. There is nothing romantic about war.

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

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

Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war.

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

War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

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

War is a profane thing.

War is not popular politically because there is always a cost—a cost in people and a cost in money.

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

Bones inside clothes. That was war to me.

If you're going to write about war, which my books are about, wars are nasty things. I think it's sort of a cheap, easy way out to write a war story in which no one ultimately dies.