In wartime, everyone’s birthday turns into a commemoration of something so sad.

Les vases du fleuve ensevelissaient ces vengeances obscures, sauvages et légitimes, héroïsmes inconnus, attaques muettes, plus périlleuses que les batailles au grand jour et sans le retentissement de la gloire.Car la haine de l’Étranger arme...

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

The only meaningful statistic in warfare is when the other side quits.

The enemy came towards us thick as mercury poured into a channel; a simmering tide oozing from the furnace of the risen sun into the pass below us. I felt Syrion tighten his grip on...

Then he leaned over, right there in the restaurant parking lot, and kissed me. And it wasn’t a friendship kiss, either. It was tender and real, and utterly romantic.

Since youre here, Courtauld said wearily, youd better explain why these lollipops or whatever they’re called have to be on silk. If I’d had a lollipop I knew precisely where Id stick it.

Those are the men,’ added Bolkonsky with a sigh which he could not suppress, as they went out of the palace, ‘those are the men who decide the fate of nations.

War is the most painful act of subjection to the laws of God that can be required of the human will.

That day I saw people trying to feed themselves but managing to do so only on a subsistence level. And people who are hungry are not worried about communism or Communists.

The Englishman left months ago, Hana, he’s with the Bedouin or in some English garden with its phlox and shit.

The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people.

That’s what you get,’ he said, nodding towards a group of the men engaged in some close-order military drill, ‘when you give people Bibles and guns. You should give ’em either one or the other,...

This is what the war has done to me. Now I want to destroy because of it. There is such hate and rage inside of me now. The Angkar (Khmer Rouge government) has taught me...

Do you understand economics? I mean big-time, prewar, global capitalism. Do you get how it worked? I don’t, and anyone who says they do is full of shit.

Imagine there’s no countriesIt isn’t hard to doNothing to kill or die forAnd no religion tooImagine all the peopleLiving life in peaceYou may say that I’m a dreamerBut I’m not the only oneI hope someday...

Statul!… Statul care ucide!… În spate statul nostru, în față statul dușman, și la mijloc noi

When they killed him, Mother wouldn’t hold her peace, so they slit her throat. I was stupid then, being only nine, and I fought to save them both. But the thorns held me tight. I’ve...

A daughter, a wife, a grandson,’ You could say this place took away all I had. I could easily appear to be one of those unfortunate white men you hear about, who thought too lovingly...

Whenever a group produces murderers, the early parental relationship must have been abusive and neglectful. Yet this elementary truth has not even begun to be considered in historical research; just stating that poor mothering lies...

It is a legacy of the Cold War. It is poorly founded, useless and can only be harmful. This should have been scrapped a long time ago.

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

Todavía se prolongó la lucha, y se amontonaron los muertos. Pero al final de la mañana, después de una batalla que mereció canciones, los guerreros de las Tierras Fértiles pudieron mirar su victoria. Eso que...

The people were divided into the persecuted and those who persecuted them. That wile beast, which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been...

A common strand appeared to unite these conflicts, and that was the advancement of a small coterie’s concept of American interests in the guise of the fight against terrorism, which was defined to refer only...

I can’t say for certain he was a war criminal, but I’d be willing to bet a year’s salary he was. A horrible person, it’s great to get him off the streets.

If the investigation implicates Syria, are we going to wage war on it? And if it acquits it, are we going to invite Syria back here again?

You do not mean there is danger of peace?”, cried Jack.

When you feel weak in spirit, think about the agreements you made with yourself about how to live an honourable life. We all have them, but unfortunately the contracts are often written in invisible ink...

Sometimes one should stop figuring out the complexities of the universe one should just free the slave.

And with every cry that escapes a childs lips.. With every piercing scream that leaves a womans mouth, and with every tear that stains a mans face, a small part of me dies each time.....

How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn’t someone want to talk about it! We’ve started and won two atomic wars since 2022! Is it because...

This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of causes. There are vast numbers, not only in this Island but in every...

The Solomon Islands is on the brink, at the moment, of a civil war. They are at the crossroads,

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind.Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky And the affrighted steed ran on alone, Do not weep.War is kind.Hoarse, booming drums of the regiment, Little souls...

Shit,” he said. “I don’t know why you’re feeling sorry for yourself because you ain’t had to fight a war. You’re lucky. Shit, all you had was that damn Desert Storm. Should have called it...

Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy.

I’ve lived through a war. I’ve seen burning corpses on the road side. And yes, I will tell you, peace is the only way out.

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

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In the emergency of growing up, we all need heroes. But the father I grew up with was no hero to me, not then. He was too wounded in the head, too endlessly and terribly...

But I will never ask anyone from our village-from any village in Tlanth-to risk his or her life unless I’m willing to myself.

There is some evidence that it was formulated in writing before the war started, for after the war. And I think that Saddam had this plan done, and it’s being implemented by the remnants of...

The truth is that when you kill a man it doesn’t matter if he’s your enemy and if he’s trying to kill you. That moment of his death will eat at you for the rest...

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

On the ethics of war the Quran and the New Testament are worlds apart. Whereas Jesus tells us to turn the other cheek, the Quran tells us, ‘Whoso commits aggression against you, do you commit...

She was beautifully, delicately made,So small, so unafraid,Till the bomb came.Bombs are the same,Beautifully, delicately made.

If humanity as a whole was to embrace and practice love; mankind would make history of transforming a bleak world overnight, for out of love we do the right things that are not meant to...

So, all in all, Hemarchidas, I’d rather history forgot me.