Ban Ki-moon Quotes

When the war started, we became refugees, and it was a really tough time. I was six years old. These were really hard times. I remember them vividly, but it's not something you want to remember or think about.

In Kurdistan, there's a lot of hardship - a lot of wars, a lot of bitter and difficult lifestyles. And witnessing all those made me a director.

Having traveled to parts of the world where war has done its usual nasty work on people's lives, I have come to develop a particular hatred for the shape, the look, the sound of the AK-47.

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

I grew up acutely aware of the exile and distance caused by war.

Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population.

The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.

I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.

A Citizen's Handbook for War

One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

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

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

War is not a petri dish to examine and analyze our emotions.

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.

War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It's good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is.

It's an important fact of life, 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.

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

When I found myself in the U.S., and the war was at full swing in Bosnia, I read for survival - it was a means of thought resuscitation.

War is not a thing one wants.

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

On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border.