Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes

You come back from war, and you have a certain authority to talk about war.

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

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

Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.

Oftentimes, discussion of war gets flattened to a discussion of trauma.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

I told the stories of the soldiers who don’t get a vote on whether or not they are on the battlefield.

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.

I cannot see the war as historians see it. Those clever fellows study all the facts and they see the war as a large thing, one of the biggest events in the legend of the man, something general, involving multitudes. I see it as a large thing too, only I break it into small units of one man at a time, and see it as a large and monstrous thing for each man involved. I see the war as death in one form or another for men dressed as soldiers, and all the men who survived the war, including myself, I see as men who died with their brothers, dressed as soldiers

War isn't civilized. War is failure. It's the ultimate result of a breakdown in public policy, and soldiers are the machines that handle that breakdown. In warfare, you're taught to do whatever you have to, to stay alive.

The troops are at war, but the Pentagon is not.

All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.

As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

Whenever I look at pictures of horrific things that soldiers do or that have been done to soldiers I always feel sorry for everybody involved because politics throws them into these horrific situations where really it's just 18-year-old kids.

Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.

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

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

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them.

When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.

What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated at the start and to which I never warmed as it proceeded?

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.