Patrick Ness Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• War makes monsters out of men.

  Patrick Ness

  War, Men, Monsters

  "The Knife of Never Letting Go". Book by Patrick Ness, www.theguardian.com. 2008.

• War is like a monster," he says, almost to himself. "War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and grows." He's looking at me now. "And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.

  Patrick Ness

  War, Men, Devil

  Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

• If you ever see a war," she says, not looking up from her clipboard, "you'll learn that war only destroys. No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors.

  Patrick Ness

  War, Survivor, Clipboards

• A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes Monsters of Men.

  Patrick Ness

  War, Men, Thinking

• War makes monsters of men, you once said to me Todd. Well, so does too much knowledge. Too much knowledge of your fellow man, too much knowledge of his weakness, his pathetic greed and vanity, and how laughably easy it is to control him.

  Patrick Ness

  War, Men, Vanity

• This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.

  Patrick Ness

  War, Hands, Doe

• No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appall you at any other time because life has temporarily lost all meaning.

  Patrick Ness

  War, Survivor, Accepting

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