American war Quote by Claire Messud

“wars are like love affairs—easy to start, hard to end, and outrageously expensive.”

— Dave Duncan

“My mother knew a man during the war. Theirs was a love story, and like any good love story, it left blood on the…

— Mark Slouka

“I hate wars and revoloutions and these dramas of redemptive violence that turn upon themselves like endlessly long screws and haul entire generations through…

— Yasmina Khadra

“For once, after the great bloodbath of the war, the world really was cleared of unnatural terrors—mass starvation, mass imprisonment, mass torture, mass murder.…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“The things that we have done together and the awful splits that have broken us into war survivals in the past stay like a…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I remember the lightning in the air, and the lovers bidding goodbye to each other in the streets, and I can tell you what…

— Daniel Polansky

“To be young and in love. Isn’t it remarkable that something like that can happen in the middle of a war? It says something…

— Mark T. Sullivan

“Politics is war without blood, while war is politics with blood.”

— Mao Tse-tung

“Where war goes on without end, all men are inevitably corrupted by its brutality -- and the worst horrors are visited upon the most…

— Michael Ennis

“... the atmosphere of war brutalizes everyone involved, begets a fanaticism in which the original moral factor is buried at the bottom of a…

— Howard Zinn

“Wars need not be fought until the last drop of blood.”

— George R.R. Martin

“Sooner or later every war of trade becomes a war of blood.”

— Eugene V. Debs