Ross Kemp Quotes

War is a defeat for humanity.

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

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.

War is not popular politically because there is always a cost—a cost in people and a cost in money.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

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

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

When you have warfare, things happen; people suffer; the noncombatants suffer as well as the combatants. And so it happens in civil war.

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

War is hell.

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

The cost of war is hard to count.

Wars shatter so many lives. I think especially of children robbed of their childhood.

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

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

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

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

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

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

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.