Tamora Pierce Quotes

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all - or am I?

My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

I always wrote - not about war, necessarily, but I always wrote stories. I tried to write while I was in Iraq. It's not really - I didn't do a very good job, and not about war.

I have come to believe there is nothing in the lives of human beings more terrifying than war and nothing more important than for those of us who have experienced it to share its awful truth

That's the worst of a war--you have to go on hearing about it so long.

How can you be a survivor, when you can't even remember the war?

I think I was unprepared for war.

Never think that war is a good thing, grandchildren. Though it may be necessary at times to defend our people, war is a sickness that must be cured. War is a time out of balance. When it is truly over, we must work to restore peace and sacred harmony once again.

I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw people's limbs sheared off, we saw kids blown apart, for one week, war would be eradicated. Instead, what we see in the U.S. media is the video war game.

A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes Monsters of Men.

You've lived through a lot of wars, I said. "Yes." Do they ever make more sense? "No.

War makes rattling good history.

Only people who haven't lived through a war advocate it so eagerly.

As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.

At night my father often heard sporadic gunfire mixed in with the sound of dogs howling. If the war came closer, soon there would be only minor difference between shooting a dog and shooting a man.

I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war - the brutal corrupting viciousness of its doing to the minds and bodies of men; and, that my photographs might be a powerful emotional catalyst to the reasoning which would help this vile and criminal stupidity from beginning again.

I have seen war ... I hate war.

I think sadness prevails in Syria now. We don't feel anything else but sadness because we have this killing every day, whether with chemical or any other kind.

I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war.

Violence, factory politics - these things simply form some bedrock of what interests me, but I'm a child of the twentieth century. And I don't see reality and its violence, wars, oppression, etc., and fiction as counterposed.

I think anything is better than war. The extent to which one can negotiate with fanatics, I have no idea. I don't know.

It said, 'War Is Not the Answer.' I disagree. I think war absolutely is the answer. And if you don't agree with me, happy Fourth of July.

I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror.