All societies that maintain armies maintain the belief that some things are more valuable than life itself.

th’ unconquerable will,/ And study of revenge, immortal hate,/ And courage never to submit or yield/ And what is else not to be overcome?

No one else could carry close to forty-five thousand people in such a short amount of time. Not in a million human years.

Our common humanity, viewed realistically, can be as much a source of despair as hope.

I think we can stop them from having a nuclear weapon, short of war.

In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.

What I say was a horrendous mistake was Neville Chamberlain’s policy of handing war guarantees to Poland he had no intention of keeping. That led directly to the Hitler-Stalin pact, to the annihilation of Poland,...

Ready to grow up, Todd?” the Mayor asks.

There is no reason for him to be in a strange land, the grim reaper holding him close, saying, “Yes, today is the day,” or “No, not yet.

Everyday we are at war. Peaceful mind is earned.

Once you have been tortured, you can never belong in this world. There is no place that ever be your home.

A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

Peace does not mean no war…..Peace means Love

War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.

And that was my homecoming. It was fine, I guess. Getting back feels like your first breath after nearly drowning. Even if it hurts, it’s good.

Precious souls are at high stakes when this world turns over with feet that quake. The timeless hearts of souls that make, beautiful music at no mistake. Peace love and light too all who demand,...

War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.

When World War II erupted, colonialism was at its apogee. The courde of the war, however, its symbolic undertones, would sow the seeds of the system’s defeat and demise. […] The central subject, the essence,...

who wishes to fight must first count the cost

Conform to the enemy’s tactics until a favorable opportunity offers; then come forth and engage in a battle that shall prove decisive.

Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive.

The difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter is a matter of perspective: it all depends on the observer and the verdict of history.

I have read of the great wars of ages past, and men slaughtered by the tens of thousands. And we give but fleeting consideration to their deaths, for it is our nature to banish such...

Military strategy…has become the diplomacy of violence.

As for the new world war that’s waiting in the womb of time, a healthily developed foetus, who can say what will spark it, how destructive it will be? We’ve already played at this war...

. . . In all parts of our globe, fanatics have cut each other’s throats, publicly burnt each other, committed without a scruple and even as a duty, the greatest crimes, and shed torrents of...

Maybe the Americans should have brought baseballs instead of bombs.

In battle, in a war, a soldier sees only a tiny fragment of what is available to be seen. The soldier is not a photographic machine. He is not a camera. He registers, so to...

The pioneers of a warless world are the [youth] who refuse military service.

We’re going to need at least some idea, which we used to get daily when the war was going on, the hostilities in Iraq.

The digging continues … Ground Zero it looks more and more like a construction site. Too much of the horror is gone. No fire. No smoke … What was war becomes peace, becomes peaceful. But...

Bad bloods aren’t born evil or dangerous. We are taught to be, but only because we have to if we want to survive.

…he wonders by what process virtually any discussion about the war seems to profane these ultimate matters of life and death. As if to talk of such things properly we need a mode of speech...

In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility; but when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up...

The technical developments of almost every form of wealth [e.g., oil, minerals] are the forebears of Big Business; and Big Business, directly or indirectly, is the immediate cause of War.

Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme;But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmear’d with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And...

Second term presidencies have been remarkably difficult in the post-war era.

Mothers should negotiate between nations. Mothers of fighting countries would agree: Stop this killing now. Stop it now.

Keep a cool surface. Calm. Detached. As inside a part of you has been shattered.

It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country,” he read. “This means that both you and he have exactly the same aim in mind.

I have a high art: I hurt with cruelty those who would wound me.

UPON FACES ANGEL TEARS… YOUR VOICES IN OUR EARS

The war is not over,

Selfrighteous creates wars more often than other reasons.

Magistrate: May I die a thousand deaths ere I obey one who wears a veil!Lysistrata: If that’s all that troubles you, here take my veil, wrap it round your head, and hold your tounge. Then...

War grows out of ordinary human nature.

How come we play war and not peace?””Too few role models.

We are not enemies but we are just hostile to each other because of our different views and opinions.

I was taken to a villa to meet Sabri al-Banna, known as ‘Abu Nidal’ (‘father of struggle’), who was at the time emerging as one of Yasser Arafat’s main enemies. The meeting began inauspiciously when...

War becomes a part of you. It is a feeling just as much as an experience. If you can’t feel it, you weren’t paying attention. And if you weren’t paying attention, you are probably dead...