Paul Virilio Quotes

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

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can.

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Nobody hates a war more than soldiers who have been through it.

I've been in many wars already.

You know, I had gone to war.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

I'm glad I never went to war.

I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war.

As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice.

I've been in Iraq, and it never occurred to me to go, 'Hey, this war is bogus,' to some guy who's 24 hours a day trying not to get shot at or blown up.

You don't have to be in Nam to be in Nam.

When you go to war, it's important for everybody to know that they're going to come home in one way or other.

I saw some war heroes... John Kerry is not a war hero. He couldn't tie the shoes of some of the people in Coastal Division 11.

I served two tours in Iraq, in the Marine Corps.

The Vietnam War totally turned my life around. Some people's lives were eliminated or destroyed by the experience. I was one of the fortunate few who came out better off.

My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.

My grandfather was in World War II and fought in Europe in Army Infantry, so I have such a huge respect for him, and he's shared some personal experiences with me.

In war, it feels like everything you're doing is more important because you're in the proximity of violence and death, and that proximity changes your relationship to America because it changes the way you see the world.

My experience on 'Jarhead' was life changing.

The notion that war forever separates veterans from the rest of mankind has been long embedded in our collective consciousness.

I was interested in the war part of 'Star Wars,' so I started reading about what it's like to go to war, what that does to you psychically, about the adrenaline and the rush.

I’m no hero. Hero’s don’t return from war. Survivors do.

The experience of being in the Army changed my whole life; I never believed that an organization such as ours could ever go to war, leave alone win it. It was, as Yeats remarked of the Easter Rising, 'A terrible beauty.'