I could never describe a race of savages too backwards to throw a spear as ‘noble.

Wars, wars, wars’: reading up on the region I came across one moment when quintessential Englishness had in fact intersected with this darkling plain. In 1906 Winston Churchill, then the minister responsible for British colonies,...

Contrary to popular belief, the experience of terror does not make you braver. Perhaps though, it is easier to hide your fear when you’re afraid all the time.

Conformity is often more dangerous than war. War destroys the body but confomity destoys the imaginative mind.

O burn the house! You’ve murdered the husband, slaughtered the cattle, poisoned the well, raped the mother, killed the child – you must burn the house! You’re soldiers – you must do your duty …...

It’s not unreal to me yet, though it might get that way soon. It still feels very real. And not even horrible — the dead are just the dead. I am convinced that the living...

Harboring anger, hatred and resentment within you, is containing the venom within you. You are the only one affected…

He had seen how the spirit, the reserves in [Bond], could pull him out of badly damaged conditions that would have broken the normal human being. He knew how a desperate situation would bring out...

Konkurrenz ist eine Sublimierung von Krieg.

There is what we desire to do, and what we are able to do. When those two things don’t coincide, which path should we pursue to find happiness?

For reasons that are not well understood, war’s codes are safer for most of us than love’s.

Bella Swan: Jasper? Are you sure there’s nothing I can do to help? Jasper Hale: Well just your presence alone, your scent, will distract the newborns. Their hunting instinct will take over, and drive ’em...

If 12 of the finest soldiers were asked to follow bravely into battle, and near certain death, then I’d be very grateful to be the 13th best fighter.

This was one of the casualties of war, that trust itself seemed to die a thousand deaths.

Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying...

I was a soldier. It is like a dream. When even the bones is gone in the desert the dreams is talk to you, you don’t wake up forever.

If pens doubled as bullets, I bet few writers would want to write about war.

Violence is not the answer. Terrorism is the most dangerous of answers.

Simon shook his head. ‘The Nazis in Germany…the Japanese here in Shanghai…Treating people as less than human because of the shape of their faces or the sound of their names. Sometimes it feels like the...

Now, your Honor, I have spoken about the [Civil] war. I believed in it. I don’t know whether I was crazy or not. Sometimes I think perhaps I was. I approved of it; I joined...

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.

War has been the most convenient pseudo-solution for the problems of twentieth-century capitalism. It provides the incentives to modernization and technological revolution which the market and the pursuit of profit do only fitfully and by...

How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not...

I should say that there ought to be no war except religious war. If war is irreligious, it is immoral. No man ought ever to fight at all unless he is prepared to put his...

It’s important to have a buddy like that. Somebody who’ll stop you from doing that really stupid thing you were gonna do just because you couldn’t think of anything better. — unidentified soldier, eulogizing his...

The kosmos works by harmony of tensions, like lyre and bow. Good and evil are one. On the one hand God sees all as well, fair, and good; on the other hand a human being...

History did not demand Yossarian’s premature demise, justice could be satisfied without it, progress did not hinge upon it, victory did not depend on it. That men would die was a matter of necessity; WHICH...

War was a dungeon for the spiritually condemned

When youre sharing a foxhole with another man, you don’t worry about what color he is, just whether or not he will protect your back

It was Colonel Parkman who upped stakes, crossed the border, and named our town, thus perversely commemorating a battle in which he’d lost. (Though perhaps that’s not so unusual: many people take a curatorial interest...

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

Running to join them, he felt overwhelming joy. It was as if he were coming home from a lashing winter storm to the warmth of his living room. The sky seemed brilliantly blue and clear,...

Do you have still the dye with which to turn your tunic red?’‘The madder? Yes, I do.’‘Enough of it for a century?’‘Enough for the entire cohort, if you want it.’He twitched a smile then; I...

The anarch wages his own wars, even when marching in rank and file

In times of war or peace the US will gladly pay a man to fail should his heart be in it, a small shimmering proof of the American dream.

How many shots had to be fired to turn this child back to his home and anxious mother?

Millions of men, renouncing their human feelings and reason, had to go from west to east to slay their fellows, just as some centuries previously hordes of men had come from the east to the...

A battle is won by the side that is absolutely determined to win. Why did we lose the battle of Austerlitz? Our casualties were about the same as those of the French, but we had...

I like the aesthetics for a well-designed game. I like world-building, setting up challenges, pitfalls…” He paused. “Do you like gaming?” She shook her head. “Not my thing. The couple of games I’ve tried are...

I thought I was going to die. I wanted to die. And I thought if I was going to die I would die with you.Someone like you, young as I am, I saw so many...

He told himself a story. Not at first. At first, there wasn’t time for thoughts that came in the shape of words. His head was blessedly empty of stories then. War was coming. It was...

All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.

…the weather was atrocious. A frightful storm burst upon us. We camped literally in water…To cap our woe, there was no means to light a single fire. We had to imagine dinner.

We’ve been at peace about as long as e were at war.

fue una de las raras batallas en que los muertos victoriosos tienen peor entierro que los vencidos

What’s the difference? Fill a hundred pits with dead Northmen, congratulations, have a parade! Kill one man in the same uniform as you? A crime. A murder. Worse than despicable. Are we not all men?...

That, in my opinion, was the most diabolical aspect of those old time big brains. They would tell their owners, in effect, ‘Here is a crazy thing we could actually do, probably, but we would...

Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone’s life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.

It was such a heavenly dream: dreamed between the reality of war and the reality of hereditary madness.

It is a legacy of the Cold War, is poorly founded and is useless and only harmful,