Sydney J. Harris Quotes

I personally didn't see personal atrocities in the sense I saw somebody cut a head off or something like that. However, I did take part in free-fire zones, I did take part in harassment and interdiction fire, I did take part in search-and-destroy missions.

Sure Vietnam is a dirty war. I've never heard of a clean one.

War is a generality, so are the inevitabilities of war, including death.

War is death's feast.

That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us.

The abuse of civilians and combatants has existed since the dawn of time.

War? War is an organized bore.

I know of nothing more exciting than war.

War is delightful for those who don't know it

War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.

War,--the trade of barbarians!

This is a war universe. War all the time. There may be other universes, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.

War makes early risers of us all.

War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.

If we have to go to war, we will.

One war, such as that of our Revolution, is enough for one life.

War was the ultimate chaos, a pounding, soul-destroying snarl, ending in blown-apart men lying unburied on the cold earth. There was nothing more cosmically chaotic than war.

Syria is bad enough, it's a pretty terrible atrocity. But there are much worse ones in the world. So for example, the worst atrocities in the past decade have been in the Congo, the Eastern Congo, where maybe 5 million people have been killed.

In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left.

We shall not enter into any of the abstruse definitions of war used by publicists. We shall keep to the element of the thing itself, to a duel. War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale.

I have a deep sympathy with war; it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.

There is one hell of a difference between fighting in the ring and going to war in Vietnam.