Hero Quote by Gertrude Stein

You know, in war, you don't have to be nice. You only have to be right.

— Winston Churchill

“War is not nice.”

— Barbara Bush

Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine…

— Carl von Clausewitz

War... some people glamorise war and glorify war. It's not nice, from whatever point of view you come from.

— Gerry Adams

Nice is a pallid virtue. Not like honesty or courage or perseverance. On the other hand, in a nation notably lacking in civility, there…

— Molly Ivins

“Niceness is not fairness. Peace (or the absence of open conflict) is not justice. Comfort is not guaranteed. Until we dismantle this system, we…

— Sun Yung Shin

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing…

— John Stuart Mill

I began to think of war, even so-called "good wars" like World War II, as corrupting everybody. Violence begetting violence. The good guys beginning…

— Howard Zinn

A nice thing about war-not that anything about war is nice, I guess-is that while it's going on and you're in it, you never…

— Kurt Vonnegut

War is awful. Nothing, not the valor with which it is fought nor the nobility of the cause it serves, can glorify war. War…

— John McCain

War is not heroic. War is not exhilarating. War is full of despair. It is dark. It is dreadful. It is a thing of…

— Tite Kubo

War is a tragedy. It's not pretty, and in my opinion, there are no winners. Everybody's a victim, from the one who's suffering pain…

— Edgar Ramirez