•Engagement can be a commitment to love or a declaration of war. One must enter every battle without hesitation, willing to fully engage the enemy until death do you apart.

The things men did or felt they had to do.

Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.

This is the start of the tug of war over what Rudman really means.

Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.

Morale was deteriorating and it was all Yossarian’s fault. The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

I saw Oberon charge into the fray on a huge black warhorse, glamour swirling around him, and sweep a hand toward the thickest of the fighting. Vines and roots erupted from the ground, coiling around...

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

Are you a communist?””No I am an anti-fascist””For a long time?””Since I have understood fascism.

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

Sometimes time can play tricks. One moment it idles by, an hour can seem a lifetime, such as when sitting by the river at dusk watching the bats snatching insects above the limpid waters; the...

I doubt I would use the word ‘casualty’. There is nothing casual about killing.

But other hordes would come, and other false prophets. Our feeble efforts to ameliorate man’s lot would be but vaguely continued by our successors; the seeds of error and of ruin contained even in what...

Talk of world peace is heard today only among the white peoples, and not among the much more numerous coloured races. This is a perilous state of affairs. When individual thinkers and idealists talk of...

What a terrible thing war is, what a terrible thing!

As if men did not die fast enough, they are ingenious at finding out ways to destroy one another.

For too long now divinity and destiny have legitimized what reason and compassion would not. An individual for a family, a family for the kingdom, a kingdom for an empire… And now – an empire...

The story is about being loyal to the truth as a nation, that citizens of a democracy are collectively responsible for what their troops do in war, good or bad.

There would be nothing but darkness, same darkness as everywhere else, an enormous darkness that swallowed up the road two steps ahead of us, only a little sliver of road about the size of your...

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

This is a story of Africa. A pioneer woman’s journey north was merely the beginning.

Precisely because a living being may die, it is necessary to care for that being so that it may live. Only under conditions in which the loss would matter does the value of the life...

This is stupid.””Look. You think how stupid people are most of the time. Old men drink. Women at a village fair. Boys throwing stones at birds. Life. The foolishness and the vanity, the selfishness and...

Absolutely everybody gets a little something.

He spent two years in the extermination camp at Auschwitz. According to his own reluctant account, he came this close to going up a smokestack of a crematorium there: “I had just been assigned to...

Mogadishu the beautiful – your white-turbaned mosques, baskets of anchovies as bright as mercury, jazz and shuffling feet, bird-boned servant girls with slow smiles, the blind white of your homes against the sapphire blue of...

Three times now… We’ve fought world wars for our own nations, our own villages. We’ve hurt one another. We’ve hated one another. That hatred bred a lust for power, and that lust for power created...

I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellowmen. Our relationship with our economic and historical situation. And above all our...

1. The desperate Jews – their spirits in my lap as we sat on the roof, next to the steaming chimneys.2. The Russian soldiers – taking only small amounts of ammunition, relying on the fallen...

Si vis pacem, para bellum

Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.

In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.

My father’s haunting memories of war had been transformed into my own haunting memories. Such is the power of war and memory.

His Noise saying, No, no, not now, not NOW-And then he says, Viola?”I’m here, Todd,” I say, my voice breaking, shouting with desperation. “I’m here!”And he says Voila? again-Asking it-Asking like he’s not sure I’m...

It’s about that applause I want to speak to you. I want you to remember that when you’ve done a little dance or a song or sketch, the applause which you get is not only...

Sometimes, war can make a change.Sometimes, change can ignite a war.

The living are more demanding; the dead can wait.

A good thing? Or a strong omen…Only time would tell what these newfangled neutrons and fission reactions would give to our ever-changing world.In all probability,this new scientific birth would change all of our lives forever...

There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war.

He thought of that heroic Colonel Pontmercy . . . who had left upon every field of victory in Europe drops of that same blood which he, Marius, had in his veins, who had grown...

Gli italiani perdono le partite di calcio come se fossero guerre e perdono le guerre come se fossero partite di calcio.

Do not be ashamed to make a temporary withdrawal from the field if you see that your enemy is stronger than you; it is not winning or losing a single battle that matters, but how...

All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.

Ignorance is king. Many would not profit by his abdication. Many enrich themselves by means of his dark monarchy. They are his Court, and in his name they defraud and govern, enrich themselves and perpetuate...

War’s all either country knows, and everything seems to depend on it now.

Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain.

Never venture, never win!

Ground on which we can only be saved from destruction by fighting without delay, is desperate ground.

It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot afford to have far more expensive armaments than anybody else.

I know you’re scared, Letti, but sweetheart…you haven’t seen anything yet. You’ve not known true fear…