I am death; I am this blood, these ravaged lands, and this wanton destruction. – Panchali Draupadi

Wars make history seem deceptively simple. They provide clear turning points, easy distinctions.: before and after, winner and loser, right and wrong. True history, the past, is not like that. It isn’t flat or linear....

A program of “disarmament,” while imperialist antagonisms survive, is the most pernicious of fictions. Even if it were realized by way of general agreement – an obviously fantastic assumption!- that would by no meansprevent a...

Memedin ayağında yarım çarıklar.Memet yüzükoyun yatmış sayıklar.Memet beygir fışkısından arpa ayıklar.Arpayı götürüp derede yıkar.Güneşte kurutup yiyecek Memet.

War takes so many more casualties than just the dead.

It’s odd, isn’t it? People die every day and the world goes on like nothing happened. But when it’s a person you love, you think everyone should stop and take notice. That they ought to...

‎I know you’re still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, education cannot. You’re a very very bright girl. Truly you are. You can be anything you want...

Saints preserve us,’ Dr. Kellen said, and squeezed Galen’s shoulder. ‘What have we done to our youth?

jika sebuah mata harus dibalas dengan sebuah mata, hanya akan membuat seluruh dunia ini buta

War is not two great armies meeting in the clash and frenzy of battle. War is a boy being carried on a stretcher, looking up at God’s blue sky with bewildered eyes that are soon...

Today is yesterday’s victory, yesterday is tomorrow’s conquest, and tomorrow is today’s war. Though I face death, I am not fearsome.

Sometimes, a war saves people.

Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.

It’s a sectarian thing. It’s an undeclared small civil war.

The war against the war is the only war that shall give you a great honour and a real peace!

i do not give a sh*t, the toilet miss me now

But if the two countries or governments are at war, the men of science are not. That would, indeed be a civil war of the worst description: we should rather, through the instrumentality of the...

The simple and terrifying reality, forbidden from discussion in America, was that despite spending $600 billion a year on the military, despite having the best fighting force the world had ever known, they were getting...

A very, in a sense, terrifying aspect of our society, and other societies, is the equanimity and the detachment with which sane, reasonable, sensible people can observe [war]. I think that’s more terrifying than the...

That Shay was in possesion of hand grenades was a comforting thought showed what kind of night this had become.

Weaponry is a fear-raising idea.

Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our ‘education’. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults.

He who is absolutely right is absolutely wrong

I think that certain emotions can compromise you when you’re at war. If you stop to mourn the dead, or even to breathe in what you’ve done, you’ll be dead as well. Your brain goes...

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once ‘The Unnecessary War’.

War is a horribly fascinating thing.

It’s best to watch out for men, like me.

The ranks opened covertly to avoid the corpse. The invulnerable dead man forced a way for himself. The youth looked keenly at the ashen face. The wind raised the tawny beard. It moved as if...

We lied our way into the war.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

All is fair in fashion and war.

The spot where we intend to fight must not be made known; for then the enemy will have to prepare against a possible attack at several different points;

Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.

Archie wasn’t waiting for her at the attic. She didn’t consider that. He wasprobably giving her time to set and collect a trap, about a week or so as she guessed, a testing period. He...

Angry men with pointy things sent to secure a foreign city are pretty much alike anywhere. That’s what I’ve heard. So far nothing’s convinced me different.

right” side and therefore will win. Right makes might.

… if one hasn’t been through, as our people mercifully did not go through, the horrors of an occupation by a foreign power, you have no right to pronounce upon what a country does, which...

Richard Nixon had made a fatal error in ignoring the politico-meteorological dimension when he announced the expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia on April 30, 1970. The invasion of Laos, on the other hand,...

The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships—a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history. Unintelligence could go...

The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not.

I will give you a few guarantees of my own, Mukthar. I guarantee that before the sun sets, even if you win, even if my cold, dead body is lying on the field, you will...

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

For millions of years flowers have been producing thorns. For millions of years sheep have been eating them all the same. And it’s not serious, trying to understand why flowers go to such trouble to...

Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace

When an entire segment of the world is burned and reduced to a lawless battleground for thugs and mercenaries, a land where government does not exist, where the slate of history is being wiped out...

He was telling her here, in this cellar, as he kissed her feet, he had understood love for the first time – not just from other people’s words, but in his heart, in his blood....

Nine out of 10 war victims die from a gun.

You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are...

Destruction is a man’s will,Nevertheless Prevention is also a man’s will,Its a man’s choice to choose between Destruction and Prevention. 🙂

So this is how a war starts…. Not with two armies facing off, waiting for the signal to charge…. It begins much more quietly. In a room, on a field, in a remote tunnel when...