All are at war with the one who wars against self.

If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

It was a war that didn’t have to be fought, it was a strategic blunder, it was poorly executed, poorly designed and right now, after two years, we still don’t have a winning strategy.

Even in times of trauma, we try to maintain a sense of normality until we no longer can. That, my friends, is called surviving. Not healing. We never become whole again … we are survivors....

War is the most evil kind of human approach; unless it is for good cause.

There is no sin in hope!

The question of whether world peace will ever be possible can only be answered by someone familiar with world history. To be familiar with world history means, however, to know human beings as they have...

Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy

Nothing is more isolating than having a particular history.

You must be a light unto yourself.

I wanted, I told her, to lie under the stars and smell different breezes. I wanted to drink different waters, feel different heats. Stand with my comrades atop the ruin of old ideas. Plant my...

A poor man in this world can be done to death in two main ways, by the absolute indifference of his fellows in peacetime or by their homicidal mania when there’s a war.

When the preponderance of human beings choose to act with justice and generosity and kindness, then learning and love and decency prevail. When the preponderance of human beings choose power, greed, and indifference to suffering,...

You are not a man anymore. You are a soldier. Your comfort is of no importance and your life isn’t of much importance. Most of your orders will be unpleasant, but that’s not your business.They...

Although I’m an atheist, I try not to crap all over people’s belief in God. It may be nothing more than a placebo, a fairy tale that gives the hopeless hope, but sometimes a little...

In other words, they appeal to the state for protection, but the state is precisely that from which they require protection. To be protected from violence by the nation-state is to be exposed to the...

So you love war. I used to think you were a decent man. But I see now I was mistaken. You’re a hero.

The human beings also passed canteens, which guards would fill with water. When food came in, the human beings were quiet and trusting and beautiful. They shared.

This discussion of war then lays the foundation for an understanding of change as a process and as an essential component of military affairs. Militaries must change to cope with the changing environment in which...

In her orchard the trees had been born from deaths; they marked and grew from the remains of the children that had passed through her.

That’s how Nigeria fell into civil war in the 1960s.

The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed.””I suppose one could say that Hitler didn’t betray his self.””You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray...

Stealing is what the army does. Taking your father, and mine.

Strength lies not in defence but in attack.

You actually cannot sell the idea of freedom, democracy, diversity, as if it were a brand attribute and not reality — not at the same time as you’re bombing people, you can’t.

Im Krieg machen die Starken die Schwachen zu Sklaven, im Frieden machen die Reichen die Armen zu Sklaven.

There is an old saying that there is no country as unhappy as one that need heroes.”(King Pelles the Sure)

It’s catastrophic. The south was extremely underdeveloped before the war. The war destroyed everything.

I have never been sad because my losses are my profits

Smartass Disciple: Master, you should teach people not to do war to each other.Master of Stupidity: I should teach people how to win their minds of their wars.

This isn’t champagne anymore. We went through the champagne a long time ago. This is serious stuff. The days of champagne are long gone.

I don’t remember Moses writing, ‘Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.

Civil war… What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as ‘foreign war’? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers? Wars could only be defined by their aims. There were no...

The adjacent shores resounded with the alternate shouts of the sons of liberty and the groans of their parting spirits.

Wars are an outdated way to try to solve conflicts, which is unacceptable in the 21st century. Instead of trying to conquer yourself, wars are an unconscious way to try to conquer life. Wars are...

We choose and make our heroes from what we have read, heard and believed in.

Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We were learning, expensively, just how efficient a total communism can be when used...

but without a war.

We often think of peace as the absence of war, that if powerful countries would reduce their weapon arsenals, we could have peace. But if we look deeply into the weapons, we see our own...

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical.

Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy’s will to be imposed on him.

Father never approved of my toysSaw them as child’s playthingsI was a childThey were my worldI ruled thereAnd he stepped on themDestroying themAnd in turnDestroyed meI should have been left to playNow I must step...

Chickenshit can be recognized instantly because it never has anything to do with winning the war.

In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called war between good and evil.

Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.

war is not inevitable. Nor has it always been with us. War is a human invention—an organized, deliberate action of an anti-social kind—and in the long span of human life on Earth, a fairly recent...

Where better to be kidnapped and sold into slavery, than a country just recently ravaged by war?” with a discernible sneer.

Organized force alone enables the quiet and the weak to go about their business and to sleep securely in their beds, safe from the violent without or within.