War : (64)

" I was born and raised in war. " - Ramzan Kadyrov

" War is not some sort of Nintendo video game. " - Scott Ritter

" No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well. " - Sebastian Junger

" Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war. " - William C. Kirby

" Rich people never go to war. You ask a college kid to go to war, and he’s like, ‘Umm, I’m taking this sociology class, and I think war is, like, really stupid, and my roommate’s, like, half Afghani, so it’s going to cause some static.’ " - Bill Burr

" Everybody should read ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ by Kurt Vonnegut. This book is about the hypocrisy of war, told in satire, and is hard-hitting and truthful. " - Kalki Koechlin

" Why did we go to war? Why did we pick people from South Carolina, California, and all the places in between to go to a foreign land and risk their lives and have some die? To make sure that Saddam Hussein could do no more damage to the region or us than he has already done. " - Lindsey Graham

" My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading. " - Thomas Hardy

" The soldiers’ last meal is generally served out about five o’clock in the afternoon, sometimes earlier; and a stretch of fourteen hours intervenes between then and breakfast. " - Patrick MacGill

" After 9/11, Hekmatyar helped Osama bin Laden escape from the mountains of Tora Bora into Pakistan, and then decamped to Iran, until his presence there became a bit too inconvenient. " - Terry Glavin