Human Cost of Conflict Quotes

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

I do not personally regard the whole of the remaining cities of Germany as worth the bones of one British Grenadier.

'Black Hawk Down' wants to be about something, and in the midst of the meticulously staged gunfire, the picture seems to choose futility arbitrarily.

In any war, people will pay the price.

No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough

He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.

No one can hide from the immense human costs of the decisions made by generals and politicians.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

When I first read the script to 'Black Hawk Down,' I didn't think it was the greatest thing in the world - far from it. But I thought the script at least raised some very important questions that are missing from the final product.

What are individuals in wars today? Expendable commodities, dead or alive.

All you have to do is hold your first soldier who is dying in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that I can't do anything about it... Then you understand the horror of war.