Quotes About Reality

War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it. Dulce bellum inexpertis.

War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.

You actually cannot sell the idea of freedom, democracy, diversity, as if it were a brand attribute and not reality -- not at the same time as you're bombing people, you can't.

The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.

Spielberg's film portrays Oscar as a hero of this century. That is not true. Neither he nor I were heroes. We were just what we were able to be. In war we are all souls without a destiny.

You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.

The final war will be between Pavlov's dog and Schoedinger's Cat.

War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle.

I have come to believe there is nothing in the lives of human beings more terrifying than war and nothing more important than for those of us who have experienced it to share its awful truth.

I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.

War is sweet for those who haven't experienced it.

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.

War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. (pg. 144)

I heard somebody say that the war ended today, but everybody knows it's going still.

And for the people who promote drones as the answer to everything, there is a danger from being distanced from the reality of the ugly mess of war.

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

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

It's an important fact of life, war.

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

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

They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.

War taught me that not everything is glamorous.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.