Books Quote by Thomas Paine

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to…

— Thomas Paine

“War isn't hell. War is war, and Hell is hell, and not the two, war is a lot worse.”

— M*A*S*H Captain B. F. Peirce

“War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and…

— Tim O'Brien

“He had illuminated the heartbreaking cruelty of war: When men who fight become nothing, only packages of bones and blood deposited in the earth…

— Patricia O'Brien

“Where war goes on without end, all men are inevitably corrupted by its brutality -- and the worst horrors are visited upon the most…

— Michael Ennis

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

— Jay Allan

“It takes oppression and hardship to stiffen men's guts and put the fire of hell into their thews.”

— Robert E. Howard

“Even God has a hell: his love of Mankind.”

— Paulo Coelho

“... it is for God, when he pleases, to cast his enemies down to hell...”

— Jonathan Edwards

“I am the love of my own life, and I will cherish and defend me against slander and disrespect, violence and erasure, in sickness…

— Aurora Levin Morales

“Let no one ever from henceforth say a word in any way countenancing war. It is dangerous even to speak of how here and…

— Siegfried Sassoon

“If this war has taught us anything, it is that convictions of righteous certitude can be soul-corrupting illusions that offer mo dispensation from hell.”

— C.S. Harris