Quotes About Perspective

If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell

We usually learn from debates that we seldom learn from debates.

They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say 'Shit, it's raining!

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.

They say this war is a cloud over the land! But they make the weather and then they stand in the rain and say, 'Shit, it's raining!

Before you leave here, Sir, you're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.

It's different now, like pushing the stop lever on my camera until nothing except the war can squeeze through the lens.

Whoever won the war, would revise the history.

Tatjana Soli, The Lotus Eaters

The actual truth has never written about any war, and this will be no exception.

Bad ages to live through are good ages to learn from.

It seemed to Karina further proof that wartime was the only time the world became as simple and carnivorously liberating as it must exist at all times in men's minds.

He wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot that you would feel exactly what he felt.

There comes a time for each of us when we realize the truth about the enemy. Which is that he is not an idea, or some faceless demon. He is a man. And every man is much like ourselves.

You've been so used to fighting Wars with a gun in your hand that you forget to put it down. Not every fight requires a weapon of some kind, and not everything is a fight.

[The] Japanese were a people in a profound, inverse, reverse, or if I preferred it, even perverse sense, more in love with death than living.

[The official prosecutors] ... were more vengeful on behalf of our injuries than I myself could ever be.

We are at war. War has a way of stripping us of perspective. War is about life and death, and it paints everything in shades of now or never.

You must become your enemy to truly understand him.

With all the god-awful suffering in this war, I suppose somebody ought to be enjoying it.

Wild animals are less wild and more human than many humans of this world

There are some great positive quotes out there that I can't quite share as I wonder how a victim in a war torn country could be expected to see from their perspective?

Morality is decided by the victors

Some victories are merely defeat wearing the wrong clothing