Newt Gingrich Quotes

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

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.

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

I've spent most of my life embracing violence in wars and revolutions. Even a famine is a form of violence. Because I photograph people in peril, people in pain, people being executed in front of me, I find it very difficult to get my head around the art narrative of photography.

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.

The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant.

A hospital alone shows what war is.

What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty.

War is not a thing one wants.

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

War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.

Never mind a world that can't see past brutality.

To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences.

War is horrible because it strangles youth.

It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering.

I have experienced within my own lifetime the attack of my winter camp and the killing of the women and children. It left me even angrier than I was - and I was never too calm to begin with.

World history is tragic.

I don't want to constantly be writing about terrorism and strife.

Torture arises in societies afflicted with a culture of dehumanization.

Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured, but we can reduce the number of tortured children.

The most shocking thing about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual human beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

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

What a miserable world. What colossal idiocy this war.

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers. All you have to do is hold your first dying soldier in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that his life is flowing out and you can’t do anything about it. Then you understand the horror of war.

Images of dead children are so excruciating that we are now well trained to short-circuit our emotional responses to move from horror to suspicion to indifference.