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  • You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.

    War   Lying   Writing  
  • The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

    "Collected Writings, Volume 1" by Omar N. Bradley, 1967.
  • Philip Jones Griffith documented the Vietnam War, and through his images that were published in Time Life Magazine, it showed me the horrors of war and at that time, I wanted to be a war photographer, based off his work.

    War   Vietnam   Magazines  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • 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   Israel   Battle  
    "Sharon: I'll solve the Palestinian problem in four years". Interview with Peter Beaumont, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2003.
  • In 1940 I was just turning 5 years old and being taken to the movies. For those of us who were not old enough to understand the horror of war it was a very romantic era because these guys were kissing their wives and girlfriends goodbye and going off to fight and become heroes.

    CrankyCritic Interview, www.woodyallen.art.pl.
  • All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

    Money   War   Battle  
    Benjamin Franklin, E. Sargent (1855). “The select works of Benjamin Franklin”, p.459
  • I know the horrors of war: no gains can compensate for the losses it brings.

    War   Loss   Gains  
    Source: nseuropa.wordpress.com
  • My opposition to war was not because of the horrors of war, not because war demands that the race offer up its very best in their full vigor, not because war means economic bankruptcy, domination of races by famine and disease, but because war is so completely ineffective, so stupid. It settles nothing.

    War   Stupid   Mean  
  • The drama can only be brought to its climax in one of two ways -- through the selective brutality of terrorism or the impartial horrors of war.

    War   Drama   Two  
  • Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice. We always have to ask ourselves whether the level of risk is worth the story. What is bravery, and what is bravado? Journalists covering combat shoulder great responsibilities and face difficult choices. Sometimes they pay the ultimate price.

    "Opinion: Colvin fought injustice, armed only with words and images" by Hannah Storm, www.cnn.com. February 23, 2012.
  • The bigger the issue, the smaller you write. Remember that. You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying on the road. You pick the smallest manageable part of the big thing, and you work off the resonance.

    War   Lying   Writing  
  • After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.

    War   Years   People  
  • Our mission is to speak the truth to power. We send home that first rough draft of history. We can and do make a difference in exposing the horrors of war and especially the atrocities that befall civilians.

    War   Home   Differences  
    "Marie Colvin: 'Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice'" by Marie Colvin, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2012.
  • The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat, is sufficient to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and the horror of war.

    War   Inspire   Battle  
  • People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has a man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the commoner diseases? 'Natural' death, almost by defintion, means something slow, smelly and painful.

    Life   Death   War  
    George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.238, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

    Edward Abbey (1998). “The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel”, p.140, Macmillan
  • Woodstock happened in August 1969, long before the Internet and mobile phones made it possible to communicate instantly with anyone, anywhere. It was a time when we werent able to witness world events or the horrors of war live on 24-hour news channels.

    War   Phones   August  
    "Commentary: Woodstock, world's biggest family reunion" by Richie Havens, www.cnn.com. August 12, 2009.
  • I know I have been portrayed as a general looking for war. Many other headlines speak of that. That's what people say. But I understand the importance of peace because I saw the horrors of war. That's how I see it. I lost my best friends in battles.. and I had to make decisions of life and death, of others and myself.

    Friendship   War   People  
  • Just as the baby boom generation seemed to believe it was the first to discover sex, many of its members also seemed to think they were the first to discover the horrors of war.

    Baby   Sex   War  
    Mona Charen (2003). “Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First”, p.156, Regnery Publishing
  • One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

    Peace   War   Winning  
    Autobiography (1977) pt. 10
  • I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

    Albert Einstein (2003). “Einstein's 1912 manuscript on the special theory of relativity”, George Braziller
  • Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

  • At every step the vast majority have expressed horror at the idea of an aggressive war.

    War   Ideas   Majority  
  • Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice.

    War   Prejudice   Horror  
    Speech at St Bride's church, www.theguardian.com. November 2010.
  • What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.

    Selfish   War   Nursing  
    Florence Nightingale (2001). “The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”
  • The greatest intensification of the horrors of war is a direct result of the democratisation of the State. So long as the army was a professional unit, the specialist function of a limited number of men, war remained a relatively harmless contest for power. But once it became everyman's duty to defend his home (or his political “rights”) warfare was free to range wherever that home might be, and to attack every form of life and property associated with that home.

    Military   War   Home  
  • For some reason a nation feels as shy about admitting that it ever went forth to war for the sake of more wealth as a man would about admitting that he had accepted an invitation just for the sake of the food. This is one of humanity's most profound imbecilities, as perhaps the only justification for asking one's fellowmen to endure the horrors of war would be the knowledge that if they did not fight they would starve.

    War   Fighting   Men  
    Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.143, Open Road Media
  • The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother

    Mother   War   Loss  
  • I think what it was with the war photography was the concerned eye, the desire to document these situations to show the world the horrors of war. It inspired me to document prostitution; inspired me to document homelessness in America. We are the richest country in the world, yet we have people suffering, so it helped me to look at things in that manner.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • she, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the meaning of life, her love had driven him to the far corners of the Earth, because he needed to be rich enough to buy some land and live in peace with her for the rest of their days. It was his utter confidence in this fragile creature, that had made him fight with honor, because he knew that after a battle he could forget all the horrors of war in her arms, and that, despite all the women he had known, only there in her arms could he close his eyes and sleep like a child.

    Children   War   Sleep  
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