There’s no glory in this whole shit. No war is ever glorious. Heroes are usually dead. Besides, they rarely turn into heroes because they are super-humans, but because of circumstances.Heroes rarely think. Heroes just act....

In theory, sure, Gregor could still go home. Pack up his three-year-old sister, Boots, get his mom out of the hospital, where she was recovering from the plague, and have his bat, Ares, fly them...

When you lose a friend [in battle] you have an overpowering desire to go back home and yell in everybody’s ear, “This guy was killed fighting for you. Don’t forget him–ever. Keep him in your...

Every man.

If you win, you need not have to explain…If you lose, you should not be there to explain!

I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE…AND BEG EVERYONE…TO BE A HERO… AND SAVE THE YAZIDI NATION

N’en déplaise aux bêtifications des nouveaux adultes occidentaux, n’en déplaise à cette nouvelle religion – la seule, au fond, qui tienne et fasse même l’unanimité – selon laquelle l’enfance, en tant que telle, serait pure,...

Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.

Despite all my public misconduct, in the past year, I had learned the Elemental spells, the Doppelschläferin, and the preparation and flying of a magic broom; I had survived two months as prisoner of war,...

During the war, I promised the dead I would never forget them. I stared at them, barely able to move myself. Pretended I was one of them. To this day I can recall the light...

War hath no fury like a non-combatant.

When free men stand, they will always carry on and lift Liberty yet unfree men shall always struggle to fight for freedom and liberty until they attain it.

There was a time in my life when I did a fair bit of work for the tempestuous Lucretia Stewart, then editor of the American Express travel magazine, Departures. Together, we evolved a harmless satire...

Sure we could replace war with paintball battles. But it would escalate to paint grenades, paint bombs, weapons of mass paint. I don’t want to live in a world where my kids have to worry...

What is war?’ I asked.Oh, it’s a messy, stupid business,’ he said, ‘Two sides wave flags and beat drums and shoot one another dead. It always begins this way, making speeches, talking about rights, and...

The joke was that President Bush only declared war when Starbucks was hit. You can mess with the U.N. all you want, but when you start interfering with the right to get caffeinated, someone has...

War does not decide who is right but who is left.

I am tempted to find reason and justice in the fact that he died as violently and indecently as he lived. But that is too ingenuous a way out. It does not explain Dimitrios; it...

As a sea is full of drops of liquid, I was but one in the ocean of WarMany are swept ruthlessly into the battering, bashing waves, and only few survive to swim to shore

I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last person in my immediate family to be alive? I didn’t...

To hear them laugh was to hear that everything was all right, but to see them laugh was to see otherwise

Console yourself not with the lie that your foe is weak, or stupid, or evil. Sometimes the enemy is worthy. Sometimes his cause is just. Sometimes both sides are right in their own ways-and in...

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.

If they didn’t want to know, they shouldn’t have asked.

The massive heart wrenching barbaric violations and battles among the international states or even the Big Powers, megalomania ,‘ folie de grandeur’,and even the UN Peace keeping forces lead us only to understand of the...

War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.

A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.

Love is like war, and I am the picnic basket out on the battlefield.

The attacks of 9/11 were the biggest surprise in American history, and for the past ten years we haven’t stopped being surprised. The war on terror has had no discernible trajectory, and, unlike other military...

The fact that war is the word we use for almost everything—on terrorism, drugs, even poverty—has certainly helped to desensitize us to its invocation; if we wage wars on everything, how bad can they be?

A guerra é boa talvez no sentido de chamar a atenção para certos problemas.

We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and...

The issue is now quite clear. It is between light and darkness and every one must choose his side.

We were trained in the army for ten weeks and in this time more profoundly influenced than by ten years at school. We learned that a bright button is weightier than four volumes of Schopenhauer....

Even still, it wasn’t over. For if a battle could be won so easily, men would soon forget its horrors and clamor for it all the more. War would come more than once or twice...

I am weary of your quarrels,Weary of your wars and bloodshed,Weary of your prayers for vengeance,Of your wranglings and dissensions

I don’t know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.

It is an odd thing that you can easily get millions of pounds for weapons to destroy life, but it is exceedingly difficult to get thousands for weapons to preserve it.

Do you see the irony at all, Tristan?’ I stare at him and shake my head. He seems determined not to speak again until I do. ‘What irony?’ I ask eventually, the words tumbling out...

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

One of the grat tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying. A persistent schizophrenia leaves so many of us tragically divided against ourselves. On...

Everything is touched by the holy when it is in the presence of death.

It is complete nihilism to propose laying down arms in a world where atom bombs are around. It is very simple: there is no way of achieving peace other than with weapons.

Too bad people can’t always be playing music, maybe then there wouldn’t be any more wars.

Because men are sentimental over women they will throw away military advantages, and hesitate and weigh the chances of failure when attack is their best or only hope, and lose their opportunity because they “have...

In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible.

Next day at the review the Tsar asked Prince Andrey where he desired to serve; and Bolkonsky ruined his chances for ever in the court world by asking to be sent to the front, instead...

The more we prepare for war, the more we make it a reality. Yet, it would seem, to prepare for war may also be the best and possibly the only way to avoid it.’ –...

But the truth is that I’m gloomy – gloomier than I ever was during the war. Everything is so broken, Sophie: the roads, the buildings, the people. Especially the people.

With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in “giving a hiding” to the classes that were previously supreme, before forcing them to recognize the new order and...