You couldn’t live close to war and not have it grab you eventually.

The world is a different place in this new century, […]. And we are a different people. My visions still come but no one listens any longer to what they tell us, what they warn...

The enormous amount of financial resources and creative energy that nations have spent on wars and weapons could have been redirected to curing deadly diseases, feeding the hungry, eliminating poverty, promoting art and culture, investing...

[Investors have to ask themselves how much higher tech stocks might go when the war starts.] From a financial standpoint, we’re already at war, … Much of the impact is already felt.

But these weren’t the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around–they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in...

Ever wonder why the media never refers to 18 or 19 year old American soldiers as “armed teens”?

Damned Beaver/Jeremy is the War, he is every assertion the fucking War has ever made–that we are meant for work and government, for austerity: and these shall take priority over love, dreams, the spirit, the...

Most governments strive to keep the masses from thinking; if the masses began to think the government would not be in power – rjs

My DNA is not negotiable.. I will not sacrifice my dignity nor the dignity of my nation and succumb to such psychopathic dictatorship!!.. The blood in my veins spans back 7000 years.. You cannot alter...

God does not care where you pray. He only cares what is in your heart.

Delight in smooth sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts … genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation … the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart...

No war is ever a war without the loss of a life of a solider

not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo,The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.

He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid.

Arabs and other Muslims generally agreed that Saddam Hussein might be a bloody tyrant, but, paralleling FDR’s thinking, “he is our bloody tyrant.” In their view, the invasion was a family affair to be settled...

This time we’ll be fighting for the nation. The company commander says that it’s better to be the ghost of a fallen soldier than a nationless slave. For the sake of our fellow countrymen, our...

Standing on the defensive indicates insufficient strength; attacking, a superabundance of strength.

When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is COLLAPSE.

it is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it, to capture a regiment, a detachment or a company entire than to destroy them.

Is life less thrilling if your neighbors are rational, if they don’t bomb your power stations whenever they feel you need to be admonished? Is it less rousing if they don’t rattle your windows and...

I let all that anger and worry go because they don’t belong to me any more than the future does. And I don’t wanna feel them anyhow, because the truth is, whatever happens when this...

War is war and this war is the dirtiest and cruellest in the world.

Never such innocence,Never before or since,As changed itself to pastWithout a word–the menLeaving the gardens tidy,The thousands of marriagesLasting a little while longer:Never such innocence again.

Even exciting places are boring most of the time. Wars. Movie sets. Emergency rooms.

It was my view then, and still is, that you don’t make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course, is always imperfect, but it seemed to me that when a nation goes to war it...

..when a war ends, what does that look like exactly?do the cells in the body stop detonating themselves?does the orphanage stop screaming for its mother?when the sand in the desert has been melted down to...

UXO (unexploded ordnance) are a forgotten but lethal legacy of every war,

However, what he wanted was impossible: the serenity of the Gods cannot be achieved by the sword.

If this is the will of God, it takes a strange and terrible shape. I did not know that the God of Battles was vile like this. I never knew that a saint could summon...

I was against the Iraq war I was against the Afghan war I was against bombing Libya and Syria but to be quite honest and with a heavy heart because more innocent people are gonna...

A BoyOut of the noise of tired people working,Harried with thoughts of war and lists of dead,His beauty met me like a fresh wind blowing,Clean boyish beauty and high-held head.Eyes that told secrets, lips that...

Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness,...

There was something terrible, but also something sad and melancholy in this long cry uttered by the Russian infantry as they staged an attack. As it crossed the cold water, it lost its fervour. Instead...

the apartment had been directly in the sight line of a Serb sniper across the river. Teta-Jozefina was a devout Catholic, but she somehow managed to believe in essential human goodness, despite all the abundant...

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

I think about something I once heard on the radio. About Abraham and Isaac.””I was afraid you’d say something like that.” “You asked.””So what about them? I don’t really know much about that kind of...

He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind – but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.

I can’t even produce a metaphor for the drug world anymore. I don’t even like the phrase the drug world since the phrase implies a different world.

Death and injury caused by armed violence is one of the most shameful epidemics of our age.

You’re not like other Wasps.””Aren’t I?” Aagen smiled, but it was a painful smile. “No doubt you’ve killed my kinsmen by the score.””A few,” Salma allowed.”Well, next time you shed my kinden’s blood, think on...

Across the world, the lack of accountability for the harm to the environment and public health caused by conflict and military activities undermines global efforts to help fragile countries recover from armed conflicts

I had only to remember that centuries before, men fell in battle for the daughter of Troy, that passions carried greater weight than decorum. It took so little to prove that human life and property...

Power is linked with war, and a society wishing to limit war’s ravages can find no other way than by limiting the scope of Power.

You can never forget what you do in a war, September my love. No one can. You won’t forget your war either.

I love you more than life itself, Arodi, you mean everything to me. I’m lost without you. I swear by all that is holy and sacred to me that I will never leave you, and...

Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for.

Wherever there is somebody else, a war is not far away.

I don’t like this war. I don’t like the cold-blooded scheming at the beginning and the carnage at the end and the grumbling and the jealousies and the pettishness in the middle. I hate the...

If we don’t end war, war will end us.

He asked, ‘Croesus, who told you to attack my land and meet me as an enemy instead of a friend?’The King replied, ‘It was caused by your good fate and my bad fate. It was...