Mark Hatfield Quotes

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good... war sucks.

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

in the clash of contending armies and amid the groans of the wounded and the dying, the interests of education are sacrificed – the pacific virtues take their flight from the earth

The first time I experienced war, I thought the world was ending.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

War is devastating, and it leaves its scars for generations.

It makes twenty years or more of peace to make a man. It takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

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

A hospital alone shows what war is.

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

My personal opinion is that if someone writes honestly about war, it will inherently be anti-war.

War is like love; it always finds a way.

The War will leave none of us as it found us.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.

The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.

To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences.

War is horrible because it strangles youth.

There's nothing glamorous about war at all.