“War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.”
“You might as well appeal against a thunderstorm as against these terrible hardships of war. War is cruelty, there is no use trying to reform it; the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.”
“Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use, and the regular exercise of choosing kindness over cruelty would change us.”
“War is cruelty. You can't refine it.”
“There's precious little reform in the human race.”
“There's nothing worse than waiting and not knowing what'll happen to you. Your own imagination can be crueler than any captor.”