Bliss Quote by Aleksandar Hemon

War is a crime which involves all other crimes.

— Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.

— Voltaire

The concept of war crimes is an American invention.

— George Wald

Many great novels have shown a world torn to shreds by the brutality of war. To do so, their authors ground their texts in…

— Uzodinma Iweala

Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

— Garry Wills

War crimes will be prosecuted. War criminals will be punished. And it will be no defense to say, 'I was just following orders.'

— George W. Bush

I read a lot of war literature.

— Aaron Stanford

“A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men…

— Tim O'Brien

It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch.

— Monique Wittig

“If you don't recognize your own crimes, there's no impediment to continuing them. There's a pretty dramatic example of that right at this moment.…

— Noam Chomsky

If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it…

— Charles Eliot Norton

My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.

— Karin Slaughter