Abigail Disney Quotes

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.

When you see a 14-year-old boy who has never known what peace looks like for a day in his life, there's part of you as a human being that feels some degree, you can say, compassion for the fact that these boys have known war, famine, violence and death from the day they were born.

I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.

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

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

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.

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

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.

If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.

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 horrible because it strangles youth.

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

There's nothing glamorous about war at all.

War is hell.

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

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

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

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

War is never cheap or easy.

I have been through one war. I have seen the dead piled up and I do not want to see another.

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

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.

There are worse things than war.