Black Kettle Quotes

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

I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.

War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

There are worse things than war.

All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.

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

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

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

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

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.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.

A hospital alone shows what war is.

When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace.

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.

War is like love; it always finds a way.

When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya.

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

In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.

Having seen war, you obviously learned to hate war.

War dehumanizes everyone.

War remains the decisive human failure.