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War Quotes by Paul Fussell
- Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.
- Chickenshit can be recognized instantly because it never has anything to do with winning the war.
- So many bright futures consigned to the ashes of the past.So many dreams lost in the madness that had engulfed us.Except for a few widely…
- The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.
- To get home you had to end the war. To end the war was the reason you fought it. The only reason.
- Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice. They have experienced secretly and privately their natural human impulse towards…
- Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate…
- If truth is the main casualty in war, ambiguity is another.
More War Quotes
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. — Isaac Asimov
- John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only… — Isaac Asimov
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend… — Julian Assange
- War is what happens when language fails. — Margaret Atwood