We all reek of weariness. A room full of the black-soul phenomenon. All of a sudden I don’t feel so alone in the recognition of my own mixed feelings mirrored in those faces. In those...

Now comes the picture of mass defeat, the most awesome spectacle of the war. It is in the bent bodies of old women who poke among ruins seeking some miserable object that will link their...

I suffered my own battles. I suffer still.

When the clouds over the land rise like a mountain, a long with it’s wishes, it can never cover the errors and mistakes made by Kings.

The ‘pre-emption’ versus ‘prevention’ debate may be a distinction without much difference. The important thing is to have it understood that the United States is absolutely serious. The jihadists have in the past bragged that...

One day my grandson said to me, grandpa were you a hero in the war? And i said to him no I’m not a hero, but I have served in a company full of them.

Bolt actions speak louder than words.

It was a tragic end to a heroic life.

Victory will not go to those who can inflict the most suffering, but to those who can survive the most.

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

Avoid teams at all cost. Keep your circle small. Never join a group that has a name.

George Orwell famously described international sport as ‘war minus the shooting’. But for all Orwell’s greatness as a thinker, this was one of his least felicitous lines, analogous to ‘murder minus the death’ or ‘life...

I can see the little girl, the face of the little girl. And as much as people say that they don’t care about these people and all that, I don’t care about these people –...

You don’t spread democracy with a barrel of a gun.

War…is ugly and brutalizing, and the nobility is in doing it without becoming ugly and brutalizing.

When facing a decision that stands a 50/50 chance of being correct, the choice made will be wrong 80% of the time. Rick Coxen

The world understood and had observed, that the parties to the armed conflict at Gaza in 2014 transgressed the ken of human rights and those who understand the subject of legal violations have already deciphered...

Brave’ covers everything from complete insanity and bloody disregard of other people’s lives – generals tend to go in for that sort – to drunkenness, foolhardiness, and outright idiocy – to the sort of thing...

If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies. The sealed world in which...

I think a cool war helmet is painted with red and white concentric circles, exactly like a bull’s eye. But I’m not a fighter—I’m a lover. That’s why I’m joining the military. I figure after...

To survive one tragedy was to learn you cannot survive them all, and this knowledge was both a freedom and a great loss.

Ser? My lady?” said Podrick. “Is a broken man an outlaw?” “More or less,” Brienne answered. Septon Meribald disagreed. “More less than more. There are many sorts of outlaws, just as there are many sorts...

Place yourself… You are either a.) part of the problem; b.) part of the solution, or c.) part of the landscape.

The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.

They spend billions of their currency every year on killing each other, and because they invest so much into killing, they don’t have enough money to run their shops, to give people enough homes or...

Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The...

The words we choose to use when we communicate with each other, carry vibrations. The word ‘war’ carries a whole different vibration than the word ‘peace’. The words we use are showing how we think...

Can’ttrustpeople. Won’tdoanygood. They’llkillyoueverytime. They’llkilleachother. They’llkilleveryone.

My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I attack.

​”One could have mistakenly assumed that each train could choose its own destination. But there was no choice. The Nazi operator sat in the station booth, his hands on levers and switches, forcing each train...

You felt, in spite of all bureaucracy and inefficiency and party strife something that was like the feeling you expected to have and did not have when you made your first communion. It was a...

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

Quitting is unthinkable and pain is just weakness leaving the body

Governor Paetus…’ Lupus closed his eyes that we might not read the rage in them. ‘Governor Paetus has informed us that he will return to our camp at Rhandaea with the Fourth legion, there to...

where war becomes unthinkable.

Ideas are like money: people kill for ideas.

They cannot hurt you; their active participation, the enthusiasm in their willingness to try, proves their natural affinity and disposition to ruin, chaos, and sabotage.Some do not learn you to earn you, they learn you...

Life meanwhile, the actual life of men with their real interests of health and sickness, labour and rest, with their interests of thought, science, poetry, music, love, affection, hatred, passion, went its way, as always,...

War was so simple, wasn’t it? Much simpler than justice.

It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind.

Ne, nisu jučer ubili majku, srušili kuću. Ubili su, babo, moje djetinjstvo, mladost, snove, sav moj život.

If young people are our greatest asset in a war that must be won then wemust be willing to extricate them at whatever cost from the clutchesof those who seek to exploit their weaknesses

Ares always reemerges from the chaos. It will never go away. Athenian civilization defends itself from the forces of Ares with metis, or technology. Technology is built on science. Science is like the alchemists’ uroburos,...

blamed the deaths in Spain on President Bush and the war on terror.

Fundamental rule in your life, is to know what your deserve in life and getting what you deserve. That’s winning always.

War is over … If you want it.

If you have to fight old enemies, you should do it with your own old soldiers.

It’s an irony of our times that men seeking peace must make war.

My God, what have they done to you? This isn’t a man, it’s a broken kite.

not ready for a civil war.