War Quote by Simon Sebag Montefiore

“War is sweet to those who have no experience of it. But the experienced man trembles exceedingly in his heart at its approach.”

— Pindar

“They arouse in themselves a wild vicious hunger more like animals than men. I did not know that war was like this.”

— Philippa Gregory

“This is not a war, this is an exploration of how far men can be degraded.”

— Sebastian Faulks

“The brutality of war could damage even the best of men.”

— Tracy Anne Warren

“War does not only kill men. Sometimes it quietly takes away their future children.”

— Angelika Regossi

“War is not a means but an end. It makes violence respectable and makes sadists look like heroes.”

— Mary Horlock

“War did not make a killer of me, although for a time I killed men.”

— John Steinbeck

“When I was young and impressionable, I thought of war as a sort of romantic crucible, a test of one’s manhood and mettle. In…

— Marko Kloos

“It makes no difference what men think of war ... War endures.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“This is a generation of men accustomed to warfare, inured to danger and familiar with cruelty.”

— Philippa Gregory

“Could it have nothing to do with the soldier and everything to do with the type of war now being fought?”

— David Finkel

“And I served as an officer in the army.” “Very impressive. I’ve been told that war is boredom interspersed with violence and terror.”

— Julie Anne Long