I think war is a crime. If you don’t believe me, ask the infantry, ask the dead.

Politics is war without blood, while war is politics with blood.

I have placed my faith in humanity, but faith in the universal becomes meaningless without faith in the individual. – Panchali Draupadi

War! We go on killing each other to no purpose! It is war waged by humanity against humanity, and it will only end when there’s no one left to fight.

Some must be warriors, that others may live in peace.

This is the body’s nurse; but since man’s witFound the art of cookery, to delight his sense,More bodies are consumed and kill’d with itThan with the sword, famine, or pestilence.

Perhaps he simply assumed: a bitterness of habit, of boy after boy trained for music and medicine, and unleashed for murder.

Jeno wyjmij mi z tych oczuszkło bolesne – obraz dni,które czaszki białe toczyprzez płonące łąki krwi.Jeno odmień czas kaleki,zakryj groby płaszczem rzeki,zetrzyj z włosów pył bitewny,tych lat gniewnychczarny pył.

There’s no way out,” he announced with satisfaction, “and no amount of wishful dreaming will produce one. The demon won’t go back in its bottle, the face-off is for ever, the embrace gets tighter and...

Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.

I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor and our everlasting shame, they do die like men, thus making possible the...

it was the hardest frost recorded since 1786.” It is just the same with wars. The war in progress is either the most righteous or the bloodiest, or the most successful, or the longest, since...

An inch of gold can’t buy an inch of time

In this world, whenever there is light, there are also shadows. As long as the concept of winners exist, there must also be losers. The selfish desire of wanting to maintain peace causes wars and...

Laws are inoperative in war

The war educated a generation of believers in force. The demons of hatred and murder then released continue their activity.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Era il primo di cinque fratelli, il suo mondo erano i boschi, il lavoro e la povertà. Poi lo reclutarono e lo fecero prigioniero in una pianura, dove l’orizzonte nascondeva solo l’orizzonte. Tutto era strano...

It is a basic idea of practically every war mythology that the enemy is a monster and that in killing him one is protecting the only truly valuable order of human life on earth, which...

First-person narrators can’t die, so as long as we keep telling the story of our own lives we’re safe. Ha bloody fucking Ha.

I am sometimes asked, “How do you know there won’t be a war tomorrow (or a genocide, or an act of terrorism) that will refute your whole thesis?” The question misses the point of this...

Hello fake Everett children.

To put it bluntly, he could die. Any moment. But so could Robert and Sal and Toby. At least I am here with him. He’s not alone. Our other boys? They are alone out there...

War in heaven makes no peace on earth.

War’s a racket. No doubt. But war is a racket for the politicians, not the soldiers.

I’m off to make war, so that you may have love.

Then he’d come back home and found out that war didn’t cause fear- love did.

War was the ultimate chaos, a pounding, soul-destroying snarl, ending in blown-apart men lying unburied on the cold earth. There was nothing more cosmically chaotic than war.

War is a lot of things and it’s useless to pretend that exciting isn’t one of them. (pg. 144)

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

Suppose a country starts its independence with the three economic characteristics that globally make a country prone to civil war: low income, slow growth, and dependence upon primary commodity exports. It is playing Russian roulette....

It was mid-November 2008. There were pirates taking ships with impunity in African waters, terrorists punching holes in Indian security, China sinking towards depression because Americans were afraid to buy cheap goods for Christmas, and...

Decades would pass. A few short sections would be formed in time into strangely resurrected, trunkless legs-tourist sites, sacred sites, national sites.For the line was broken, as all lines finally are; it was on longing...

Attack is the secret of defense; defense is the planning of an attack.

Danger has a bracing effect.

Conceal your dispositions, and your condition will remain secret, which leads to victory; show your dispositions, and your condition will become patent, which leads to defeat.

The noble heart will find no shortage of places to offer itself in martyrdom, but you cannot die on every battlefield.”~ Duncan Sinclair, from The Outcast Highlander

War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!’ ‘Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical…There is no strength to...

On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.

In such a beast as this…” (he means the army)”…it was the collective power that went, collapsing like a long-exhausted animal, at once falling under its own weight as much as that of its enemy....

In the midst of the heavy, hot fragrance of summer, and of the clean salty smell of the sea, there was the odor of wounded men, a sickly odor of blood and antiseptics which marked...

War is essential for peace.

The missing remained missing and the portraits couldn’t change that. But when Akhmed slid the finished portrait across the desk and the family saw the shape of that beloved nose, the air would flee the...

It was nearly ten years since the peace though her memories of the war still felt fresh.

The fact that in the twentieth century a greater proportion of the people in the world could communicate with one another, using English or just a few other languages, appears not to have stopped any...

War is the health of the state.

But liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near-war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies...

War is unlike life. It’s a denial of everything you learn life is. And that’s why when you get finished with it, you see that if offers no lessons that can’t be bettered learned in...

When the old men fight, the young people die.