Philip Caputo Quotes

War... some people glamorise war and glorify war. It's not nice, from whatever point of view you come from.

Nothing like war reveals man in the same strength—their courage, their stupidity, their fears, their hopes, their ugliness ….

War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning

War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.

There's nothing but brutality and bravery or cowardice that comes out of war. That's pretty much it.

War is an arena for the display of courage and virtue. Or war is politics by other means. War is a quasi-mystical experience where you get in touch with the real. There are millions of narratives we impose to try to make sense of war.

I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that war requires. War also requires that we sacrifice our normal unwillingness to kill.

War is hell. You can't photograph a flying bullet, but you can capture genuine fear.

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

As a combat veteran, I know the cost of war.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.

War taught me that not everything is glamorous.

War is an abstraction.

The war begins to make itself felt very near to us.

War is fear cloaked in courage.

Young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which ... develops patriotism and courage. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul.

War not only teaches what man can be, but it teaches also what he must not be.

The first time I experienced war, I thought the world was ending.

War is not a petri dish to examine and analyze our emotions.

There's something about being amid the chaos and the horror of a war that makes you appreciate all you don't have - and all you may lose forever.

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.