Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life.

Fortune favors the brave…

In a world turned upside-down, where everything was wrong, bizarre, you could at least look up at the sky and see normality. Stars that shone regardless of who won a civil war, or who should...

YAZIDIS AND CHRISTIANS WANT TO BE FREE OF NIGHT MIST AND BEHEADING DRIFT!

We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in psychoanalysis hostility disappearing as people conquer their fears, one wonders if the cure...

There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence.

Bad peoples often hunts past un-resolve haunted projection in other people’s life and great peoples forgives haunted instinct nature of bad peoples let go and save the society but this war cycle will never ends....

The conqueror is always a lover of peace; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.

One man’s fight is another man’s freedom.

I’m ruined beyond repair, is what I fear…And if so, in time we’d both be wretched and bitter.” “I know people can be mended. Not all, and some more immediately than others. But some can...

Watching the towers fall in New York, with civilians incinerated on the planes and in the buildings, I felt something that I couldn’t analyze at first and didn’t fully grasp (partly because I was far...

Who supports the troops? The troops support the troops.

I wonder where he lies. Wedged under a rock, with a thousand small mouths already sucking on his spongy flesh. Or floating still, on and down, on and down, to wider, calmer reaches of the...

‎”The days are hot and the dead lie unburied. We cannot fetch them all in, if we did we should not know what to do with them. The shells will bury them…

I’d like to sit there,” I said softly to the girl sitting in front of the other mirror. She scampered. I took over her abandoned make-up and painted my face. Red cheeks, to attract hungry...

As the sun disappeared below the horizon and its glare no longer reflected off a glassy sea, I thought of how beautiful the sunsets always were in the Pacific. They were even more beautiful than...

(On the beginning of the mid-1990s’ genocidal war in Rwanda:)Within six weeks, an estimated 800,000 Tutsi, representing about three-quarters of the Tutsi then remaining in Rwanda, or 11% of Rwanda’s total population, had been killed.

It’s always funny that you can try and try again to steal all your critics’ ammo, predict their responses, but no matter what, they’ll still have a water gun stashed somewhere.

He is a true casualty of battle. There’s not a physical scar, but look at the man’s heart, and his head, and there are scars galore.

Fighting isn’t all there is to the Art of War. The men who think that way, andare satisfied to have food to eat and a place to sleep, are mere vagabonds. Aserious student is much...

War.Such a little word, such a depth of agony. Blood, death, conquest, starvation, plague, and horror.

Labri non è felice. Il soldato a cui è assegnato lo stratta male: spesso lo picchia, ma perlopiù non lo degna nemmeno di uno sguardo. Sta quasi tutto il giorno alla catena. Ha freddo, è...

We were still young enough to remember the cubist architecture of the piles of corpses we had seen during the war.

I had kissed my share of men, particularly during the war years, when flirtation and instant romance were the light-minded companions of death and uncertainty. Jamie, thought, was something different. His extreme gentleness was in...

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in...

If my name were Nubby Blues, I wouldn’t be a jazz musician, I’d be a disabled Vietnam vet on welfare.

One’s child is always one’s child no matter what age they might be. You worry when your child makes a noise, when he doesn’t. It’s a terrible kind of love. Terrible.

There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.

all you say is true. But Rhaegar lost on the Trident. He lost the battle, he lost the war, he lost the kingdom, and he lost his life. His blood swirled downriver with the rubies...

I do detest the human race as a whole, but some groups are more deserving than others,

In November, when our nation remembers her fallen soldiers and honours the lost youth of my generation, the Prime Minister, government leaders and the hollow men of business affix paper poppies to their lapels and...

But what I would like to know,” says Albert, “is whether there would not have been a war if the Kaiser had said No.””I’m sure there would,” I interject, “he was against it from the...

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

This life is ironic: for it takes pain to discover pleasure; it takes sadness to know happiness; it takes war to value peace; and it takes hatred to treasure love.[Culled from: “Amara & The Strange...

Do not ill-treat or take advantage of foreigners who are living in your land. Treat them as you would a fellow- brother, and love them as you love yourselves. Remember that you were once foreigners...

Wer Feind ist, ist keine rechtliche, sondern eine politische Frage.

In the war, to survive, you had to be responsible every minute of every day, unhesitatingly responsible for yourself, for your every action. You had to be responsible for your buddies, too, because survival wasn’t...

Entre pauvres gens, faut bien qu’on s’aide … C’est les grands qui font la guerre.

Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.

Gun up,’ he whispered to Skosh. The word went back to invisible kids lying on the jungle floor. ‘Set it in here,’ Mellas whispered to Conman. ‘Put Vancouver with his machine gun one-eighty from it.”He...

Horgias nodded, his lips drawn back in a smile that was a wolf’s snarl. ‘They want us all flogged. Why us?’‘Lupus,’ Syrion said. ‘The other centurions hate him, even among the Fourth. He’s too distant....

One of the great myths about war is that there is a ground zero, a center stage, where the terrible forces unleashed by it can be witnessed, recounted, and replayed like the launching of a...

Every wars casts humanity back into the primordial slime.

One has indeed personally to come under the shadow of war to feel fully its oppression… by 1918 all but one of my close friends were dead.” J.R.R. Tolkien

Davout looked up and gazed intently at him. For some seconds they looked at one another, and that look saved Pierre. Apart from conditions of war and law, that look established human relations between the...

I don’t know how to stop the atrocities. I don’t know how to make people care. But looking into my sister’s eyes, we seem to have carved out something between us that none of the...

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

Good Godfrey!

Let that be absolutely clear, that if it’s war the LTTE wants … then it is war that it will get,

It is never right for any individual or government to do any vast evil as a means to some hypothetical good.