Men Quote by Michael Shaara

“War has been glorified by men who have never been shot at.”

— Bobbye L. Hudspeth

“Son, a real battlefield lacks dignity and honor. When lives are being spent—actual human lives—those high-minded concepts lose their meaning. All that matters is…

— B. Justin Shier

“I believe that all the people who stand to profit by a war and who help provoke it should be shot on the first…

— Ernest Hemingway

“I want you to understand something. War makes perpetrators of some, criminals of others, and victims of everyone. Just because a soldier is in…

— Ellen Marie Wiseman

“For realists, the true story of the Civil War illuminates the problem of ostensibly sober-minded compromise with powerful, and intractable, evil.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“And another 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…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“For the past two weeks he's been feeling so superior and smart because of all the things he knows from the war, but forget…

— Ben Fountain

“The starkest reality of war is that the enemy is never really a monster, never inhuman ... Every soldier is the same fallible breed…

— Stan Goff

“Every solider believes in war till the time he actually fights it.”

— Pushpa Rana

“Men who have been in war have a different attitude about being wronged.”

— Dan Groat

“Could a man decide, 'I am right, and everyone else is wrong?' No evidence of a malfunction, he thought. I am not a coward.…

— Walter M. Miller Jr

“The passion for war is so intense that there is no undertaking so mad, or so injurious to the welfare of the State, that…

— Alexis de Tocqueville