Bullets Quote by John Stevens Cabot Abbott

When a nation becomes obsessed with the guns of war, it loses its social perspective.... There is something about a war like this that…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

War is only a sort of dramatic representation, a sort of dramatic symbol of a thousand forms of duty. I fancy that it is…

— Woodrow Wilson

War is a monster with snaky locks, and fiery bloodshot eyes, and harpy claws, passing over fair fields and leaving its footprints in burning…

— Moncure D. Conway

“It can be argued, for instance, that war is grotesque. But in truth war is also beauty... Like a killer forest fire, like cancer…

— Tim O'Brien

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood,…

— William Tecumseh Sherman

Battle scars from the war of good versus evil have a unique beauty all their own.

— Anonymous

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

I hate the way war is seen as something inherently brutal and ugly. Yes, much of war brings out the worst part of our…

— Robert Greene

“Guns tell the truth. Guns never say, "I'm only kidding." War is ugly because the truth can be ugly and war is very sincere.”

— Gustav Hasford

What a fine-looking thing is war! Yet, dress it as we may, dress and feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing…

— Douglas William Jerrold

“War...is ugly and brutalizing, and the nobility is in doing it without becoming ugly and brutalizing.”

— Dana Kramer-Rolls

There is more value in placing a flower in a rifle barrel than making war. As Jimi Hendrix used to say, musical notes have…

— Carlos Santana