Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

War is a fevered god who takes alike maiden and king and clod.

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

War is horrible because it strangles youth.

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.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

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

Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war.

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

There's nothing glamorous about war at all.

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.

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

War is death’s holy-day.

War is never cheap or easy.

a wanton and bloody stalemate.

War is no damn football game.

I don’t pray often, but on this occasion I pray devoutly that the Armies of Europe may bleed each other till they faint with the loss of blood..

War is terrible. There is nothing romantic about war.

Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized experience.

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.

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