A fat man eating quails while children are begging for bread is a disgusting sight, but you are less likely to see it when you are within the sound of the guns.

I bowl with cannonballs, because this is war, 1863 style. I could probably bowl a perfect 300 game using only half the deaths at Gettysburg.

A common and natural result of an undue respect of law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, and all, marching in admirable order over hill and dale...

Tracer lighting up the sky.It’s another families’ turn to die.A child afraid to even cry out says,He has been here.And I see no bravery,No bravery in your eyes anymore.Only sadness.

For they were unseasoned, nor inured, not knowing this to be much less than the beginning of sorrow.

We’re not very different from one another, not different at all, in fact. We’re all just people with the same needs, the same desires, the same feelings. It’s a lie about us being different. It’s...

I soon found out this much:–terror can be endured so long as a man simply ducks;–but it kills, if a man thinks about it.

Love is born from disagreeing over something we believe in. Hate is born from disagreeing over something we fear.

And an even stronger example of Mr. Wells’s indifference to the human psychology can be found in his cosmopolitanism, the abolition in his Utopia of all patriotic boundaries. He says in his innocent way that...

They did not, however, infect the air as the Sudanese sun dried them up like mummies; all had the hue of gray parchment, and were so much alike that the bodies of the Europeans, Egyptians,...

Il est de toute nécessité que je perde conscience de la réalité individuelle de l’être que je puis être amené à supprimer.

Women particularly should concern themselves with peace because men by nature are more foolhardy and headstrong, and their overwhelming desire to avenge themselves prevents them from foreseeing the resulting dangers and terrors of war. But...

War didn’t scare me. I just didn’t want to go all the way-hell over there to fight one. I had a reputation after that–I pretended I shot myself by accident, but everyone knew. I never...

In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war, but we did notcompletely trust anyone.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

It’s the irony of war. Those who want to live, die. Those who want to die, live on.

Los británicos, al igual que los estadounidenses, recuerdan la Segunda Guerra Mundial como una época en la que su mejor generación salvó al mundo de la maldad del nazismo.

It is interesting how one word can spark memories that one believes she has buried beyond recognition. War reminded me of the sharp and bittersweet smell of burning homes, temples, and palaces. It made my...

In a war between evils, only evil wins.

When you raise the most valid of points, you will be grazed by the most hollow of souls, and the most vacant of personages.

All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility.

Peace is one thing, revolution is another. You were either impatient or highly optimistic to think one would lead to the other. – Panchali Draupadi.

The Battle of Normandy was won on the beaches of Dieppe

You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.

…according to the teachings of Islam, war is to be waged not against the enemy but against the aggressor. (p. 49)

I know this is war, but the rest of us are trying to pretend it’s a party.

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...

There is an old Arab Bedouin saying: I, against my brothers. I and my brothers against my cousins. I and my brothers and my cousins against the world. That is jungle law. It is the...

Every war has it’s turning points, and every person too.

Every war and conflict that the United States enters has its own ROE [rules of engagement]. Contrary to what most people think, the U.S. military does not have a complete license to kill, even in...

The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.

When civilians are not asked to pay any price, it’s easy to be at war – not just to intervene in a foreign land in the first place, but to keep on fighting there. The...

Religion, with its metaphysical error of absolute guilt, dominated the broadest, the cosmic realm. From there, it infiltrated the subordinate realms of biological, social and moral existence with its errors of the absolute and inherited...

If human beings weren’t ‘dumbable’ enough to be made soldiers, war would be nothing but an exchange of swear words between a handful of individuals.

War is the remedy for peace.

Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.

stick your nose in other people’s business” Is so compulsive and epidemic to human society.

The most important thing I gained from my travels was the knowledge that one could achieve anything with determination and an ounce of luck.

Dear, Missus, Mister – I beg you never to give thoughts to war, in no way, not to work for it, not by writing nor by reading about it nor by looking at the pictures...

There is something almost insane about countries without common borders going to war, something unnatural.

Cope? Adapt? Uh, no. These are military kids. They roll with it. I once asked a new student, ‘See any familiar faces?’ She pointed out various kids and replied, ‘Seattle, Tampa, Okinawa, New Jersey.’ For...

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in foreign lands there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them,...

If freedom is free and none need worry, then what blood drops for thee?

[From a May 1, 2004 article entitled “Still Up to Mischief” from The Guardian reporting on and quoting Altman]Still, it’s worth noting that by the age of 20 this whistle- blower had resisted two of...