Distance Quote by Doris Lessing

War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Let the world see how horrible wars can be.

— Phan Thi Kim Phuc

When we dwell on the enormity of the Second World War and its victims, we try to absorb all those statistics of national and…

— Antony Beevor

War has crossed out the day and replaced it with horror, and now horrors are unfolding instead of days.

— Zlata Filipović

Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.

— Nicolas Chamfort

No matter what era you're looking at - war affects things in so many different ways.

— Gary Cole

History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.

— Jodi Picoult

History and war are cruel pedants. Those who know too little of the former are likely to have too much of the latter.

— Oliver North

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

The First World War killed fewer victims than the Second World War, destroyed fewer buildings, and uprooted millions instead of tens of millions -…

— Edmond Taylor

War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations.

— Anonymous

Every country has its own perspective on the Second World War. This is not surprising when experiences and memories are so different.

— Antony Beevor