War Quotes

"War solves nothing permanently."

"Covering a war means going to places torn by chaos, destruction, and death, and trying to bear witness. It means trying to find the truth in a sandstorm of propaganda when armies, tribes, or terrorists clash."

"War is not romantic or glorious. It is brutal, and civilians pay the highest price."

"Conflict reveals the best and worst in human nature. A journalist must document both."

"I don't write about war because I romanticize it. I write about it because someone needs to tell the truth."

"The real story of war is not about generals and strategies. It's about families torn apart and children orphaned."

"The scars of war are written on both the landscape and the souls of survivors."

"The rich have always fought wars with the poor."

"War is the failure of diplomacy."

"War leaves scars on nations and souls."

"War is often the failure of imagination and dialogue."

"The real war is not between nations but between truth and lies."

"War reveals both the worst and the best in human nature."

"Covering a war means going to places torn by chaos, destruction, and death, and trying to bear witness. It means going to places that others have gone away from."

"War is the failure of every other mechanism of resolution."

"The suppression of information is a form of violence."

"War is what happens when diplomacy fails."

"Covering a war means going to places torn by chaos, destruction, and death, and trying to bear witness. It means going to places that others have left."

"War is not glamorous. It is dirty, brutal, and heartbreaking."

"The suffering of civilians in war is often invisible to those not there."

"Every conflict has a human cost that must be acknowledged."

"The government has declared war on its own people through mass surveillance."

"Surveillance of entire populations is a form of psychological warfare."

"War is a failure of diplomacy and reason."

"To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, and controlled"

"War shows us the worst in humanity and reminds us why peace matters."

"War thrives in darkness; peace requires transparency."

"War begins in the hearts of those who accept deception as normal."

"A government that spies on its own citizens has already declared war on the concept of democracy itself."

"War is the failure of diplomacy."