D. H. Lawrence Quotes

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

War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population.

We talk about war in America, we talk about it on an intellectual level. We don’t talk about the sound or smells of war…the pain

At least eighty thousand of our sons are dead or mangled. A million more will die of poverty and disease. Every issue could have been settled and better settled without the loss of a drop of blood

All you have to do is hold your first soldier who is dying in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that I can't do anything about it... Then you understand the horror of war.

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.

The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.

So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.

Nightmares of a capital city overwhelmed by tsunami, war or plague transfix us, but catastrophe is first felt locally, and there are many homes outside the city.

We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.

Hiroshima has become a metaphor not just for nuclear war but for war and destruction and violence toward civilians. It's not just the idea we should not use nuclear arms. We should not start another war because it's madness.

Every time I come to the States, I wish people would react to war like they react to tobacco, for example. Because war really kills in a second lots of people, thousands of people.

When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.

War is too strange to process alone.

Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.

It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering.

In media coverage of the war, Afghans are often characterized as corrupt and deceitful. There has certainly been plenty of corruption and deceit in this conflict, but why? What inspires these behaviors? In 'Green on Blue,' I wanted to render a world that is often overlooked: that of the average Afghans who are helping America wage its war.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

Most of my nightmares that jolt me awake either involve the cosmos or something completely out of human control. In reality, I worry more about nuclear war, or war in general.

I don't think any war is worth having our soldiers killed.

Beirut turned into a war zone in a matter of hours. We were stuck at home, the roads were blocked.

I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.