Attraction Quote by Drew Gilpin Faust

War, like all other situations of danger and of change, calls forth the exertion of admirable intellectual qualities and great virtues, and it is…

— William C. Bryant

The war you feel within - that restlessness, the unending uncertainty - is not to be dismissed, avoided, hated. That internal conflict is not…

— Brendon Burchard

“War is an unbelievable potpourri of deep fear, exhilaration, dull, monotonous, dirty living, strange heroics, and complete cowardice, all intermingled to form a way…

— Robert E. Merriam

War is a curtain of dense black fabric across all the hopes and kindliness of mankind. Yet always it has let through some gleams…

— H. G. Wells

The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It…

— Chris Hedges

The seductiveness of war derives in part from its location on this boundary of the human, the inhuman, and the superhuman. It requires us…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible.

— Charles Sumner

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

— Jon Krakauer

“The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It…

— Chris Hedges

For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit.

— Ernie Pyle

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