Combat Quote by Chris Hedges

Military mythology has to pretend that real men are in the majority; cowards can never be allowed to feel that they might be the…

— Germaine Greer

War seems a perfectly impossible thing, even when it can be seen coming nearer and nearer.

— Cornelia Meigs

We have been telling and hearing and reading war stories for millennia. Their endurance may lie in their impossibility; they can never be complete,…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

“If we really saw war, what war does to young minds and bodies, it would be impossible to embrace the myth of war. If…

— Chris Hedges

“Myth murdering myth: that's war these days.”

— William H. Gass

To be sure, those who are actually engaged in combat - those who actually see the maimed bodies and mourning mothers - struggle more…

— Stanley Hauerwas

In war, while everything is simple, even the simplest thing is difficult. Difficulties accumulate and produce frictions which no one can comprehend who has…

— Carl von Clausewitz

The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking

— Marvin Bell

Military force can't defeat ideology.

— Anne Applebaum

I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.

— Romain Rolland

Convincing adversaries that they cannot achieve quick and decisive wins deters wars.

— John Mearsheimer

It's impossible to know what happens in the fog of war.

— Hillary Clinton