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...

This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds, or lands, nor anything about glory, honour, might, majesty, dominion, or power, except War....

War is always an adventure to those who’ve never seen it.

McChrystal had organized a jaw-dropping counterterrorism campaign inside Iraq, but the tactical successes did not translate into a strategic victory. This was why counterinsurgency – blanketing the population in safety and winning them over –...

Well, then he would be at war with the government, and death was an unfortunate side effect of any revolution. Change always had a price tag. But once he took over, the people would realize...

Don’t you get it? Can you imagine the…the heroism? That’s what grace is all about. He didn’t even think for one second about himself. All he thought about was that little girl, and saving her...

I will always hate war, but will be forever proud of mine.

Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.

Baada ya Adam na Hawa kutenda dhambi katika bustani ya Edeni, kila mtu anayezaliwa anazaliwa katika dhambi. Kwa hiyo dhambi hutokana na maisha, na maisha hutokana na dhambi.

Like war, love – all kinds of love – is for men who can take it. If they dare.

You can blow the world to pieces, but you can’t blow the world to peace.

Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.

I cannot tell you how stressed you get in that type of situation. It was basically like a war zone.

If my God damns people for love but saves them for brutle warfare, then that is not the God I know or wish to worship.

Era a primeira vez que Sam via uma passagem de um combate de Homens contra Homens, e não lhe tinha agradado muito. Sentiu-se grato por não poder ver o rosto do morto. Perguntou a si...

I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, Mother, what was war?

Kakimi chertyami oni viigrali holodnuyu voinu?”This translates roughly to: “How the hell did these people win the Cold War?

If he had fallen into our hands during the war we were waging then we could have eliminated him, but now we have to put him on trial.

Not that she’s a political animal, she’s just an ordinary woman, but as a woman she’s of the view that you don’t bring children into the world to have them shot.

Di gran furore si pregna il suo scheletro,bagliori saettano, uscendo e rientrandoda essa come rincorsi durante una fuga.Sembra un dio del cielo, pieno di boria,quando ai mortali si appresta a elargiredoni che celano invero soltanto...

Flowar,” I’d probably be a peaceful guy.

In theory at any rate each militia was a democracy and not a hierarchy . It was understood that orders had to be obeyed, but it was also understood that when you gave an order...

NATO cannot afford to lose this war. Albanians cannot afford to lose this war.

Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist, and you will sweep war from the earth.

But how intolerable bright the morning is where we who are alive and remain, walk lifted up, carried forward by an effective word.

Johnny Got His Gun” and the shrill college cries of the Veterans of Future Wars drove the small-boy craving for war so far from our minds that when it finally happened, it seemed absolutely unbelievable....

We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from...