In our century of progress and industrialization we still cannot avoir and prevent wars. I’d propose to have a separate planet where we’d insert fighting coutries to solve their business.

In the Second World War he took no public part, having escaped to a neutral country just before its outbreak. In private conversation he was wont to say that homicidal lunatics were well employed in...

It was all death.

She fit her head under his chin, and he could feel her weight settle into him. He held her tight and words spilled out of him without prior composition. And this time he made no...

You can walk around this culture now, as a proud supporter of the so called anti-war movement and it’s made up of a lot of people I used to know … I’d like for them...

the shooting and killing weren’t as black-and-white as most people think. The actions live in that hazy area of blown-apart stone walls and hesitations. Sometimes I shot when I shouldn’t have; other times I didn’t...

The fiendlike skill we display in the invention of all manner of death-dealing engines, the vindictiveness with which we carry on our wars, and the misery and desolation that follow in their train, are enough...

Modern war, modern international hostility is, I believe, possible only through the stupid illiteracy of the mass of men and the conceit and intellectual indolence of rulers and those who feed the public mind.

It’s not a question of what you want. No sane person ever WANTS a war. But if you see outsiders as a threat and believe that an armed defense is the only way you’re going...

Something in me died at Peleliu. Perhaps it was the childish innocence that accepted as faith the claim that Man is basically good. Possibly I lost faith that politicians in high places, who do not...

Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.

She knew enough to recognize that memories were crowding in, and there was nothing he could do. They wouldn’t let him speak. She would never know what scenes were driving that turmoil.

The king was silent. “Ents!” he said at length. “Out of the shadows of legend I begin a little to understand the marvel of the trees, I think. I have lived to see strange days....

Considering our backgrounds, I found it a strange irony that Ian and I should meet in central Borneo. Both of us were set in motion by the war in Southeast Asia. Ian enlisted. I left...

It was uncanny. You press a button and a man drops dead a hundred meters away. It seemed hollow and remote, falsifying everything. It was a trick of the lenses. The man is an accurate...

Andiamo avanti, non sappiamo dove. Non sappiamo niente, tranne che il cielo e la terra stanno per confondersi nel medesimo abisso.

Two decades of virtually uninterrupted fighting had made even the most dignified structures appear drunken, wounded, or lost. The entire city seemed to affirm the notion that warfare is a disease.

We stood there for a full half hour, like so many scarecrows, while they jeered at us from a distance, and one or two of us were shot down.

The majority of pacifists either belong to obscure religious sects or are simply humanitarians who object to taking life and prefer not to follow their thoughts beyond that point. But there is a minority of...

Is it any wonder that war is senseless? It’s started by politicians. As a class, politicians have no class, and even less sense.

We adapt to our sorrows, I suppose, as unpleasant as they might be. One cannot weep forever. One simply runs dry of tears.

Tenente colonnello Abbati: – Io mi difendo bevendo. Altrimenti, sarei già al manicomio. Contro le scelleratezze del mondo, un uomo onesto si difende bevendo. È da oltre un anno che io faccio la guerra, un...

My first rule of war, Cat-never give the enemy his wish

No, war will not be stopped. But it is a comfort, in the midst of a war, to read an antiwar book this good, and be reminded that just because something keeps happening, doesn’t mean...

The fact that we are now crusaders needn’t blind us to the fact that for a very long time we have been, as Badger would say, echidnas. I can think of a hundred ways already...

If humans had nothing to fight for, they would fight for nothing.

I think to myself: I don’t want to survive this oneI want to burn up in the wreckage

There began to appear before my romantic eyes…a vast and complicated network of espionage, terror, sadism and hate, from which no one, official or private, could escape.

If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego warm.

All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars.

Nationalism and ethnic pride, in the long run, delay human development, and the misery they cause must be recognized. If enough people saw that , maybe we wouldn’t have so many wars.

It was Colonel Parkman who upped stakes, crossed the border, and named our town, thus perversely commemorating a battle in which he’d lost. (Though perhaps that’s not so unusual: many people take a curatorial interest...

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

Running to join them, he felt overwhelming joy. It was as if he were coming home from a lashing winter storm to the warmth of his living room. The sky seemed brilliantly blue and clear,...

Do you have still the dye with which to turn your tunic red?’‘The madder? Yes, I do.’‘Enough of it for a century?’‘Enough for the entire cohort, if you want it.’He twitched a smile then; I...

The anarch wages his own wars, even when marching in rank and file

In times of war or peace the US will gladly pay a man to fail should his heart be in it, a small shimmering proof of the American dream.

How many shots had to be fired to turn this child back to his home and anxious mother?

Millions of men, renouncing their human feelings and reason, had to go from west to east to slay their fellows, just as some centuries previously hordes of men had come from the east to the...

A battle is won by the side that is absolutely determined to win. Why did we lose the battle of Austerlitz? Our casualties were about the same as those of the French, but we had...

I like the aesthetics for a well-designed game. I like world-building, setting up challenges, pitfalls…” He paused. “Do you like gaming?” She shook her head. “Not my thing. The couple of games I’ve tried are...

I thought I was going to die. I wanted to die. And I thought if I was going to die I would die with you.Someone like you, young as I am, I saw so many...

He told himself a story. Not at first. At first, there wasn’t time for thoughts that came in the shape of words. His head was blessedly empty of stories then. War was coming. It was...

All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.

The line between him and the enemy had simultaneously blurred and solidified. Somehow, while perhaps it shouldn’t have, this thought provided a strange sense of peace.

Unless a nation’s life faces peril, war is murder.

Perché finché la guerra è altrove, non riesci a prenderla sul serio. Come ha detto Martha Gellhorn “La guerra è un fatto personale”. È proprio così: finché non capita a te, non riesci a capirla,...

Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

I took my orders, too. But if i couldn’t keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you together. In the middle of a big war, you go looking for a small idea...

We’re engaged in an expensive war overseas, we’re spending more than we take in, and even the rosiest economic predictions forecast annual budget deficits in the range of $300 billion for years to come. It...