Quotes About Suffering

You cannot talk about winning the war as long as there's killing and destruction on daily basis.

Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict.

There's no war that will end all wars.

No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.

Some day I'd like to cover a war in a country as ugly as war itself.

The essence of war is fire, famine, and pestilence. They contribute to its outbreak; they are among its weapons; they become its consequences.

In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.

War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.

Have you ever asked yourself, do monsters make war, or does war make monsters?

Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.

It is not a war. It is murder.

There are strange hells within the minds war made.

If war was hell and only hell and there were no other colors in the palate I don't think people would continue to make war.

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.

I had an attack of the gout two days before pulling out, and I went limping off to the war instead of coming limping back from it.

Every war involves a greater or less relapse into barbarism. War, indeed, in its details, is the essence of inhumanity. It dehumanizes. It may save the state, but it destroys the citizen.

War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages.

¨ Oh, I´m not complaining. I know there´s a war on. I know a lot of people are going to have to suffer for us to win it. But why must I be one of them?¨

You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!

War is not a thing one wants.

Once we thought a few hundred corpses would be enough then we saw thousands were still too few and today we can't even count all the dead Everywhere you look.

It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended

The ravages of drink are greater than those of war pestilence and famine combined.