War Fatality Quotes

Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will.

I am struck by how casually we as a nation react to the carnage in Iraq.

In an area of more than 1,000 war graves and with birdsong as the only sound, I contemplated the thin margin between life and death. If the sniper's bullet had been just two feet to one side, my father's life would have been over, aged just 27, and I would never have been born.

In every trade save war men of talent and vigor prosper. In war they die.

Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless.

Some people say that with Oslo, hundreds of people were killed. But without Oslo there would have been thousands of people killed.

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

It is true that raids and battles killed a tiny percentage of the numbers that die in modern warfare. But in tribal violence, the clashes are more frequent, the percentage of men in the population who fight is greater, and the rates of death per battle are higher.