Quotes About Perspective

We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers.

A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.

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

If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.

I would like my book to give people insight to the war before and after, but I don't think anyone could read my book and suddenly make up her mind about the war. I want to write for everybody.

The quality of life in our world does not depend on the conflicts that arise, but on our response to them.

You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope

Government wars aren't my wars; they've got nowt to do with me, because my own war's all that I'll ever be bothered about.

War is not won by victory.

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

I adore war. It is like a big picnic but without the objectivelessness of a picnic. I have never been more well or more happy.

The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived.

It's all a terrible tragedy. And yet, in it's details, it's great fun. And - apart from the tragedy - I've never felt happier or better in my life than in those days in Belgium.

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.

I don't need the news. If they have a war, I figure someone will tell me.

Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime.

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.

As long as we believe our thoughts, there will always be war.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

...funny how people want a return to the good ole days. Of coarse the good ole days of being a rich white plantation owner. Everyone seems to forget the poor white farmer.