John Brennan Quotes

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

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

War is horrible because it strangles youth.

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

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

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.

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

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

War is by no means something glamorous, and I don't think that should ever be forgotten.

War is a profane thing.

There's nothing glamorous about war at all.

War remains the decisive human failure.

War is hell.

War is never cheap or easy.

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

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

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 the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

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.

A hospital alone shows what war is.

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

War is not a thing one wants.