Vietnam Quote by Tim O'Brien

“You can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.”

— Tim O'Brien

“A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men…

— Tim O'Brien

We who have witnessed the obscenity of war and experienced its horror and terrible consequences have an obligation to rise above our pain and…

— Ron Kovic

[Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.

— Tim O'Brien

“War teaches us honesty. Honesty with ourselves. For war is a merciless debunker; it debunks great and small alike....When bombs are crashing and fires…

— Rulka Langer

“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

“There is no brutality and cruelty in battles and wars; in reality only the outcome matters.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“War is a mass of contradictions and carefully acknowledged truths.”

— Michelle Sagara West

“It can be argued, for instance, that war is grotesque. But in truth war is also beauty... Like a killer forest fire, like cancer…

— Tim O'Brien

“... the atmosphere of war brutalizes everyone involved, begets a fanaticism in which the original moral factor is buried at the bottom of a…

— Howard Zinn

“There are people that are convinced of the wickedness both of armies and of police forces, but who are nevertheless much more intolerant and…

— George Orwell

“themselves to remember the truth, and not the sentimentalities with which we all shield ourselves from the horrors of which we are capable ……

— Doris Lessing