Quotes About Perspective

I know better than to get in between three women arguing. If you'll remember, the whole Trojan War started over that. (Wulf)

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look at the world.

The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.

Viewed as drama, World War I is somewhat disappointing.

If women ran the world there would be no wars. However every 28 days there would be some very intense negotiations.

If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.

All wars are full of stories that sound like fiction.

Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.

It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.

One of the parodoxes of war is that those in the rear want to get up into the fight, while those in the lines want to get out.

...(Charles) Reich discredits reason because it has been used to justify the war in Vietnam, which is like deciding that because your mother has cooked you a few bad meals you must never eat again.

Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.

Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.

The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.

I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world.

I don't only long for the thrill of being in the middle of a war, I must understand it; I must make other people understand.

He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.

Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]

And now that you are out? How does the world seem to you?" he says. "Mostly the same," I say. "People are just divided by different things, fighting different wars.

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

Friends die in war. It is easier to remember this before the war than after.

A person whose job is deep thinking about atomic war would no more call a 'megadeath' a 'million corpses' than an embalmer would refer to a 'loved one' as a 'stiff.'

It wasn't something I started off in my teens or early twenties thinking I want to be a war correspondent. I still don't think of myself as a war correspondent. I'm not. I'm a foreign correspondent.

In free society art is not a weapon...Artists are not engineers of the soul.