Phyllis Logan Quotes

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

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

The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it.

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

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

Nothing endurable can be produced on a soil soaked with blood and moved by violent agitations.

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

Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out...and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel. ..And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for "the universal brotherhood of man"--with his mouth.

There are worse things than war.

That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.

What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

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

We do not wonder that there is conflict in the world. There is now, and has been from the time that Cain slew Abel, so much of hatred.

There can be no peace with someone who wants to kill you.

I think the brutality is important to convey as part of the story, to see how brutal it is to have these kids in battle with one another.

It's a violent world we live in. I don't agree with trying to hide that or cover it up.

The world is too violent right now.

War remains the decisive human failure.

There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good.

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

War itself is the enemy of the human race.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one slaughter after the other. We talk about it, but no one's really listening.