Quotes About Impact

The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of history.

The desire of any war photographer is to be put out of business.

Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.

War is addictive. Indeed, it is the most potent narcotic unleashed by mankind.

All wars are waged against children

By the year 2025, 500 million people will die of smoking. Now, that's a Vietnam War every day for 27 years. That's the Titanic sinking every 27 minutes for 27 years.

The war affects me less than it ought. But I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.

One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough.

People lose their lives in the drug wars and you don't have to prove it to yourself because others have proved it for you.

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

Policies that emanate from ivory towers often have an adverse impact on the people out in the field who are fighting the wars or bringing in the revenues.

Great results, can be achieved with small forces.

So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to war after The Iliad.

If you make an honest picture of war, it will be an antiwar photograph.

The leader must be an actor.

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

History more often records the brilliant successes and spectacular defeats of contending forces than the effect of war on the common people.

'Star Wars' hasn't changed my life at all.

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

War never leaves where it found a nation.

Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected.

The budgetary cost to the UK of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through 2010 will total more than £18 billion. If we include the social costs the total impact will exceed £20 billion.