Scott Ritter Quotes

War is not a thing one wants.

It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering.

War is an abstraction.

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

Few Americans born after the Civil War know much about war. Real war. War that seeks you out. War that arrives on your doorstep - not once in a blue moon, but once a month or a week or a day.

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

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.

It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.

War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.

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.

When you have warfare, things happen; people suffer; the noncombatants suffer as well as the combatants. And so it happens in civil war.

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

War is a defeat for humanity.

Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.

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

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.

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

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

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 not a petri dish to examine and analyze our emotions.

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