Quotes About Reality

Magnum photographers were meant to go out as a crusade ... to places like famine and war and ... I went out and went round the corner to the local supermarket because this to me is the front line.

All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.

There's no nobility with war. It's tear-'em-up destruction that leaves you frustrated, bitter and angry... If you really knew what it was like for an hour, you wouldn't want anyone to go through it.

There is an illusion that has much to do with... most of our unhappiness.... We expect too much.

War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.

I am a musician and am so thankful for that. I have no experience of war. But I find a similarity between performing music onstage and acting - a reality of emotion.

War seems a perfectly impossible thing, even when it can be seen coming nearer and nearer.

Wars might come and go, but the seven o'clock news lives forever.

You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.

All wars are full of stories that sound like fiction.

There is no place for innocence on the battlefield.

I met soldiers coming back from war and I was impressed by their description of PTSD, all the symptoms: the outburst of violence, the impossibility to cope with reality anymore, all that stuff.

War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video arcade game. Its very essence-death-is hidden from public view.

As everything in this world is but a sham, Death is the only sincerity.

Friction is the only concept that more or less corresponds to the factors that distinguish real war from war on paper.

The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war.

In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality.

The appalling thing about war is that it kills all love of truth.

For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.

That, what we're really seeing in Iraq is not a terrible war, but in fact, just the media's portrayal of it.

In crude Marxist terms, liberals have a theory of infallible government that is constantly at war with the reality of life.

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.

These two enormous forces - truth and meaning - are at war in today's world... And something sooner or later has to give.

Because of the movies nobody will believe that it was babies who fought the war.