Neal Stephenson Quotes

There was nothing there but black water and American fire power.

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

The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail.

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

Wars break things; they break stories.

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

War is the easiest photography in the business. Just get close, be lucky, know how your camera works. There are subjects everywhere. Everyplace you go, there is something to photograph in a war, like being in the middle of a hurricane or a train crash or an earthquake. You can't miss it.

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

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

War is a profane thing.

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

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

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

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

War remains the decisive human failure.

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

War is hell.

War is at its best barbarism.

I saw my hometown burning that day.

It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

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.

Limiting nuclear war is like limiting the mission of a match thrown in a keg of gunpowder.

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.

War is not neat. It's not tidy. It's a mess.