American patriotism Quote by Phil Klay

What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it, so there's…

— Robert Dallek

At this point in time the war [ WWII] is close enough to still feel hotly personal to a writer, yet far enough away…

— Chris Cleave

We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War,…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

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

— Jon Krakauer

War is, after all, the universal perversion ... war stories, the pornography of war.

— John Rae

No American can read the story of the part America took in the war without experiencing a glow of patriotic feeling. Every Allied nation…

— Kelly Miller

Any story you write about war, or film you make about war, is bound to be political whether you like it or not.

— Michael Morpurgo

And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It's about sunlight. It's about the special way that dawn…

— Tim O'Brien

War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

“Men see objects, women see the relationship between objects. Whether the objects need each other, love each other, match each other. It is an…

— John Fowles

The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.

— John Eldredge

War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday living. We precipitate war out of our daily lives; and without a transformation in…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti