Philip Gibbs Quotes

War is hell. You can't photograph a flying bullet, but you can capture genuine fear.

As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice.

War is the science of destruction.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

War is about dead people.

War is hell.

It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.

There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.

War is not beautiful. Sometimes you see action sequences where battles seem organized. I know that from how the Vikings fought. It's not beautiful. It's hard. It's hard work.

This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.

War tears, rends. War rips open, eviscerates. War scorches. War dismembers. War ruins.

War was the ultimate chaos, a pounding, soul-destroying snarl, ending in blown-apart men lying unburied on the cold earth. There was nothing more cosmically chaotic than war.

Oh, go in anywhere Colonel, go in anywhere. You'll find lovely fighting all along the line.

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail.

There are scenes here and effects here that would make George S. Patton wince.

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

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good... war sucks.

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

War is the province of danger.

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

The ground was strewn with the dead, the dying, and the wounded—here lay one man with his leg shot off, there another with a wound in his head, another with an arm shot off, and hundreds wounded in nearly all the various parts of the body.

We are conditioned to regard warfare as something exciting and even glamorous.

When people refer to a cage fight as war, I think it's kinda cute... A war, huh? You know what a war is? They, evidently, don't. It's not maybe their place to know what it is, but I do.