Hardened Quote by Ford Madox Ford

Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and…

— Oriana Fallaci

“The war had left his body pathetically damaged and weak, but his mind was as strong and clear as it had ever been, perhaps…

— Dean Koontz

He hated the war; it threatened much more than his lifestyle or peace of mind. It continually destroyed the world of the imagination, the…

— Irene Nemirovsky

The war was about vanity, he said. It was about old men who couldn't look in the mirror anymore and so they sent the…

— Colum McCann

War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too. The things they saw, the things they did.…

— Mitch Albom

“It was not his nature to believe that he should engage in any kind of meddling or become actively involved in politics. His vocation…

— Carola Giedion-Welcker

The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings,…

— George Grosz

War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he is vanquished…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“The war had made him see that not everything was quite as black and white as he’d once thought. Most people were neither all…

— Hillary Adrienne Stern

War makes monsters of men, you once said to me Todd. Well, so does too much knowledge. Too much knowledge of your fellow man,…

— Patrick Ness

Maybe he hadn't thought the war through. It had seemed like simple fun when he had first pictured it, with a glorious beginning, a…

— Dave Eggers

War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition.

— Elihu Root