America Quote by Rupert Everett

The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to…

— Rupert Everett

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

“The glamorous side is all they want to hear, the real part of war isn’t believed or [is] listened to with a bored feeling,…

— Dan Levin

“There are always those who wish to sanitize war by portraying its grand and noble deeds-which sometimes occur-while drawing a veil over its shameless…

— John Ferling

Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother…

— Curtis LeMay

“I said, 'I have heard people talk about war as if it was a very fine thing.' Ah!' said [Captain], 'I should think they…

— Anna Sewell

War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are not. Without…

— Francesca Lia Block

What I've found is that a lot of soldiers are surprisingly apolitical. Their reality is, "Today I'm going to leave the gate for twelve…

— Henry Rollins

There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this…

— Philip Caputo

I've learned our soldiers are so much like everybody else. They're just put into an extreme situation.

— Mary Gauthier

Every soldier I've ever met knows that you've got to do more than just run out onto the battlefield screaming, 'We're going to win!'

— Harris Faulkner

It's not just: you get off the plane, you're back home, everything's fine. Maybe the physical danger ends, but soldiers are still deeply at…

— Kevin Powers