Victor Davis Hanson Quotes

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.

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

The most shocking thing about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual human beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

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

War is not a petri dish to examine and analyze our emotions.

War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It's good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is.

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

War is not a thing one wants.

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

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.

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

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

War is horrible because it strangles youth.

War is not some sort of Nintendo video game.

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.

War remains the decisive human failure.

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

War itself is the enemy of the human race.

The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

The real war will never get in the books.

That cause was one of the worst for which men have ever fought..

It makes twenty years or more of peace to make a man. It takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.