Battle Quote by Brian Azzarello

War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video arcade game.…

— Chris Hedges

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal…

— George Orwell

They call war an art, but it isn't. It largely consists in outwitting people, robbing widows and orphans, and inflicting suffering on the helpless…

— Kenneth Roberts

War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of…

— Smedley Butler

War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing based on…

— Gertrude Stein

I learned early on that war forms its own culture. The rush of battle is a potent and often lethal addiction, for war is…

— Chris Hedges

People try to glorify war, particularly those who aren't actually fighting in them. People tend to make heroes of those who are fighting in…

— John Boyne

War is only a sort of dramatic representation, a sort of dramatic symbol of a thousand forms of duty. I fancy that it is…

— Woodrow Wilson

War is about remaking the world to suit the whims of some powerful group over the whims of some other powerful group. The dead…

— David Wong

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

— Jon Krakauer

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

— Jeannette Rankin

War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human…

— Robert Fisk