"War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning" Quotes

The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.

The seduction of war is insidious because so much of what we are told about it is true - it does create a feeling of comradeship, which obliterates our alienation.

There is a kind of death that soldiers face that is not found in any other profession or walk of life.

The flag becomes a sacred symbol, a religious icon, an unquestioned emblem of the state’s power and virtue.

War exposes the capacity for evil that lurks not far below the surface within all of us.

War is the great purifier, the great enlightener, the great test of courage.

The myth of war entices us and seduces us, even as it calls us to destruction.

War, in the end, is always about betrayal.

We kill to feel alive.

War is a love story.