Stephen Crane Quotes

The essence of war is insanity. Destruction, death, women widowed, children orphaned, lands plundered, property destroyed, lives decimated - it's all bad.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

War is by no means something glamorous, and I don't think that should ever be forgotten.

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

War is a profane thing.

War is at its best barbarism.

If the blood of France and of Germany flows again, as it did twenty-five years ago, in a longer and even more murderous war, each of the two peoples will fight with confidence in its own victory, but the most certain victors will be the forces of destruction and barbarism.

The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make.

War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

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

Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.

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

War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.

Savage, despicable evil. That's what we were fighting in Iraq. That's why a lot of people, myself included, called the enemy 'savages.' There really was no other way to describe what we encountered there.

War remains the decisive human failure.

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

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.

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

Use a proper degree of terror …kill evey man Kaffir…if possible the Chief should be destroyed.

My mind revolts and my soul cannot support the weight of so much evil: theft, rape, pillage, deaths, and murders, fires and devastation; the virgin violated, the cry of the widow and the orphan; the father armed against his son and each one looking for his brother to kill him; of those who have migrated; of the thousands who have fled; of the bodies stretched out in the public streets; of the bones which cover the fields and of so much blood shed on Venezuela’s soil.

The camera will show the true face of war.