D. H. Lawrence Quotes

War is horrible because it strangles youth.

in the clash of contending armies and amid the groans of the wounded and the dying, the interests of education are sacrificed – the pacific virtues take their flight from the earth

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

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 a profane thing.

War remains the decisive human failure.

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

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

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

That cause was one of the worst for which men have ever fought..

War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things.

War violates the order of nature and causes parents to bury their children.

War is a fevered god who takes alike maiden and king and clod.

I don’t pray often, but on this occasion I pray devoutly that the Armies of Europe may bleed each other till they faint with the loss of blood..

We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest.

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

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant.

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

Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war.

I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.

So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.

War is by no means something glamorous, and I don't think that should ever be forgotten.

War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.