Emotional War Quotes

#1. If contemporary America doesn't develop ways to publicly confront the emotional consequences of war, those consequences will continue to burn a hole through the vets themselves. I

Sebastian Junger

#2. Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one's whole being into the being of another.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#3. Grave of the Fireflies is an emotional experience so powerful that it forces a rethinking of animation ... It belongs on any list of the greatest war films ever made.

Roger Ebert

#4. The emotional security and political stability in this country entitle us to be a nuclear power.

Anthony Mason

#5. I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.

P.J. Harvey

#6. The big lie and monotonously repeated nonsense have more emotional appeal in a cold war than logic and reason.

Joost Meerloo

#7. If war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional life and death. There's not a handy one-minute way of talking to your kid about war.

Richard Louv

#8. The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated.

Franjo Tudjman

#9. I wanted something that would address the strengths and weaknesses of humanity. I wanted a story that could move readers. My Honor Flight is that story.

Dan McCurrigan

#10. People say you need to be strong, smart, and lucky to survive hard times, war, a natural disaster, or physical torture. But I say emotional abuse - anxiety, fear, guilt, and degradation - is far worse and much harder to survive.

Lisa See

#11. Harboring anger, hatred and resentment within you, is containing the venom within you. You are the only one affected ...

Jacqueline Ripstein

#12. Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.

Herman Kahn

#13. There's a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be?

Michael Morpurgo

#14. I had a visceral connection to the period [of Korean War]. By visceral I suppose I mean emotional. But every fiction requires so much that is not that so I did a lot of other research and a lot of thinking, a lot of struggling there.

Chang-rae Lee

#15. In the process of my evolution, I became a victim of domestic war, an emotional casualty for a major portion of my life, entwined, entrapped and emotionally involved, until I learned how to become free.
Sara Niles
Torn From the Inside Out

Sara Niles

#16. Listen to the speeches, one after another telling the audience what it already knows, evoking applause with necessary cliches, no longer shocking anybody with the shocking facts of the war because you can become so jaded with horror that you develop an emotional callous.

Paul Krassner

#17. He remembered running through the streets of Alicante with Tavvy in his arms, stumbling on the cracked paving. trying to keep his little brother's face mashed against his shoulder so that he wouldn't see the blood and death all around him.

Cassandra Clare

#18. It was not, Zelda wrote, prosperity or the softness of life, or any instability that marred the war generation; it was a great emotional disappointment resulting from the fact that life moved in poetic gestures when they were younger and had since settled back into buffoonery.

Nancy Milford

#19. Sport, which mimics the language and emotional intensity of war but eliminates
the fatal destruction, may be a form of redemption.

Ed Ayres

#20. Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime.

Harry Elmer Barnes

#21. I guess that's the problem when you really get to know someone. You learn all their triggers and emotional buttons, and unfortunately, in times of war, you press them.

Samantha Young

#22. I suffered my own battles. I suffer still.

Carla H. Krueger

#23. Terry Farish seems to breathe the reader into the emotional spaces of war, exile, and refugee life. The Good Braider is a delicate stunning exploration of its young protagonist's life and heart.

Uma Krishnaswami

#24. Words cause pain, they evoke anger, they make us hate, they lead us to war. But they also make us laugh, bring us joy, and satisfying our emotional hungers.

Marlene Caroselli

#25. The Hollywood atmosphere of crises and continuous anxiety is a kind of hysteria which prevents people from thinking, and is not too different from the way dictators use wars and continuous threats of war as an emotional basis for maintaining their power.

Hortense Powdermaker

#26. The way we treat animals is the root cause of all the human suffering in the world, from poverty, starvation, disease, and war to lack of clean air and water, not to mention all the varied forms of human emotional and spiritual suffering.

Sharon Gannon

#27. I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.

Mahatma Gandhi

#28. My war had been so long, my winter so cold. But i had made it home. And for the first time in a long time, i was not afraid.

Ruta Sepetys

#29. When I crawled down the rabbit hole into the pivotal event of my life--indeed the pivotal event of my generation--to write "Escape from Saigon - a Novel" I never expected it to be such an emotional journey into a life I left four decades ago.

Dick Pirozzolo