Hitherto, the rights and wrongs had seemed so beautifully simple.

Mow the carpet, vacuum the lawn, and make love like war.

As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.

A number I’d love to know: the % of those now saying ‘we have to vote Obama to stop an attack on Iran’ who will support one if Obama does it.

The thing is, you cannot ask people to coexist by having one side bow their heads and rely on a solution that is only good for the other side. What you can do is stop...

It is morally appalling for the so called liberators of South Sudan to keep liberating their own people from a war that has already been won.

For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress — to the future.

Our problems come not from what we believe, but from how we believe in what we do.

The great Sugambrian shrugged. “I did. I supposed you’ve proven your worth. But no man should have to kill his own father. I should know.

The proposition is peace. Not peace through the medium of war; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations; not peace to arise out of universal discord, fomented from principle,...

My heart is bigger than my fist.

It was never worth the blood that has been spilled here today.

Don’t start a fight if you can’t duke it out. Either win or concede but whatever you do, don’t have others fight for you.

I did not say anything. I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so...

If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the war.[Apology to the international anti-submarine committee for being absent from several meetings during...

How could you get mad at someone who neither needed to attack nor was at all worried about being able to defend? It was like getting mad at Switzerland.

They’re going to come out hard. It’s going to be a war.

Use art, be creative. No more war. No more children dying. A pawn that does not move in chess upsets the game. I know there is love in the world still and that is what...

War has no longer the justification that it makes for the survival of the fittest; it involves the survival of the less fit. The idea that the struggle between nations is a part of the...

Teddy didn’t really understand the attraction of the dark side for the young these days. Perhaps because they had never experienced it. They had been brought up without shadows and seemed determined to create their...

The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking

There is no honor in sending men to die for something you won’t even fight for yourself

Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony.

And when there is the possibility of peace, a new fight erupts, based on an old complaint, and which some people call justice adn others madness.

War, money and greed that is the modern heinous Trinity, and they are inseparable these days.

Homo sapiens! The name itself was an irony. They had not been wise at all, but incredibly stupid. Lords of the Earth with their great gray brains, their thinking minds had placed them above all...

3. War Peace & Action – 3B.02 LOVE & PEACEHatred goes not by hatred,Violence not by violence,Disappear hatred and violence,By love, understanding, non-violence.[241]- 3B

I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will be laid desolate. And I believe that it can come true. I believe...

We believed that it was most desirable that the North should win, we believed in the principle that the Union is indissoluable, we, or many of us at least, also believed that the conflict was...

Lord of War

There is something brittle in me that will break before it bends. Perhaps if the [the enemy] had brought a smaller army I might have had the sense to run. But he overdid it.

We only dream of things we know and people that we’ve seen… War and pain is all I know, it is all I can ever see.

While There may be power in forgiveness, there is even more power in lobbing a Molotov cocktail through someone’s dining room window.

He [Harry Bosch] defined good company not by the conversation but by the lack of it. When there was no need to talk to feel comfortable, that was the right company

It’s a product thermo-nuclear war out there. Everybody is coming out with new hardware.

Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War produces many euphemisms, downplaying or giving verbal respectability to savagery and slaughter.

Mahlia… understood Doctor Mahfouz and his blind rush into the village. He wasn’t trying to change them. He wasn’t trying to save anyone. He was just trying to not be part of the sickness. Mahlia...

Never think that war is a good thing, grandchildren. Though it may be necessary at times to defend our people, war is a sickness that must be cured. War is a time out of balance....

The way I see it, when you put the uniform on, in effect you sign a contract. And you don’t back out of a contract merely because you’ve changed your mind. You can still speak...

Men must either be caressed or else destroyed.

There’s no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.

War is a proof that idea has boundary.

She was in a very small town in Bavaria and after the war, when things settled down, she became an interpreter for the U.S. Army, … She met and married my father, who was in...

Truth is ugly that is why we don’t like it

Pictures could not be accessories to the story — evidence — they had to contain the story within the frame; the best picture contained a whole war within one frame.

The only thing I knew for sure is I hadn’t slept in ten years. Not really. I’d been fighting my own monster since nine months after 9/11. I had regrets. I had pain that I...

Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times.

You. Man at the machine and man in the workshop. If tomorrow they tell you you are to make no more water-pipes and saucepans but are to make steel helmets and machine-guns, then there’s only...

The military don’t start wars. Politicians start wars.

I wish I could claim that I said this being an author, but alas I did not.” –I try to leave out the parts that people skip. — Elmore Leonard