War Quote by Tim O'Brien

“There is no rectitude whatsoever. There is no virtue. As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by…

— Tim O'Brien

“Easier to demonize than to understand, and that’s the truth on both sides of every war.”

— Plague Jack

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

— Tim O'Brien

“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

“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

“History books are filled with lies. Whoever wins the war tells the story.”

— Stephanie Perkins

“When the war begins, talking is insanity , Just take your weapon and kill humanity!”

— Arash Pakravesh

“The very thought that war can ever be justified, let alone desirable or even noble, is quite honestly the greatest deception that mankind has…

— Michel Templet

“... 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

“One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people…

— George Orwell

“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