For after all, why do we go on fighting? If we die for democracy then we must be one of the democracies. Let the rest fight with us, if that is the case. But the...

Then the Skopamish showed up. Their chests heaving, rotting eyes like dull raisins in their skulls. Their eyes found mine like a witching wand seeking water.

If he can’t reach you he can’t hit youIf he can’t hit you he can’t hurt you

To Polyakov it was as though a fierce wind from downstream was sweeping up the Volga. Several times he was knocked off his feet; he fell to the ground no longer knowing what world he...

You open a newspaper and see a picture taken in a war somewhere, and there’s a gun in somebody’s hand,

Once upon a time there were two countries, at war with each other. In order to make peace after many years of conflict, they decided to build a bridge across the ocean.But because they never...

Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.

this is the 21st century and we need to redefine r/evolution. this planet needs a people’s r/evolution. a humanist r/evolution. r/evolution is not about bloodshed or about going to the mountains and fighting. we will...

Love is hateWar is PeaceNo is YesAnd we’re all free.

It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace.

When it comes to peace, we need to facilitate peace-makers’ personal engagement and their genuine desire to bridge the gap between advocacy knowledge and skills necessary to differentiate between theory and practice in the field...

Dalam dua ribu tahun terakhir sejak kelahiran agama-agama besar di Timur itu, Bung, dunia ini telah berperang tiga ribu kali atas nama agama dan tuhan.

I dreamed kind Jesus fouled the big-gun gears; and caused a permanent stoppage in all bolts; and buckled with a smile Mausers and Colts; and rusted every bayonet with His tears.

Wenn die Menschen um ihre Freiheit kämpfen, erhalten sie durch ihren Sieg selten neue Herren.

Maybe that would be less crucial under Obama, Podesta thought, because Obama’s approach was so intellectual. He compared Obama to Spock from Star Trek. The president-elect wanted to put his own ideas to work. He...

When fear meets fear nothing good every happens.

Whenever you become aware of a conflict in the world, realize that you only perceive it as a conflict because it resonates with something that’s already inside of you.

In the spring of 1990 I flew to Aspen, Colorado, to cover a summit meeting between Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President George Herbert Walker Bush. This fairly routine political event took on sudden significance...

I’m concerned that the American public is rapidly being given the impression that this is the bill for the war. It’s not. It’s the down payment for the bill for the war. and (by) that...

I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in...

War, in its fairest form, implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice.

The greatest thrill is not to kill but to let live.

I believe that people are holy because they’re made in the image of God, and a place can be holy when God is present—but no place is so holy that it’s worth shedding the blood...

One should never fight for a country. One should fight, if one has to, for what one believes to be right. A country is only as good as its leading citizens.

You’ll know I’ve gone into ninja mode because I’ll have turned out the light. I make love like an assassin, and if you hear me snoring, I’m only pretending to be asleep! All love is...

We have a war here,

We were hoping to get thousands of Iraqis trained before the war and as it turns out we were only able to train a few score and that was unfortunate.

I see that old flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.

One can completely rule out the threat of a civil war.

He was selling war bonds, but he still got bumped.

Acts of violence– Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death–and the meaninglessness of killing.

I want a house with a garage, so someone from the government won’t try to park a tank in my living room.

We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silent encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

CREEPOther people have written about war. About how one plane sweeps over and the whole place is ablaze in minutes. About how a young man may kill another young many with perfect legality. I prefer...

We are not in a state of war with anybody.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

[It] is hardly possible to maintain seriously that the evil done by science is not altogether outweighed by the good. For example, if ten million lives were lost in every war, the net effect of...

Give ’em all the same grub and all the same pay/And the war would be over and done in a day.” – All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 3

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

I think war is a dangerous place.

He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard.

It doesn’t make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who’s dead.

If you do not want to stop the wheels of progress; if you do not want to go back to the Dark Ages; if you do not want to live again under tyranny, then you...

It’s natural for a man to defend what’s dear to him: his own life, his home, his family. But in order to make him fight on behalf of his rulers, the rich and powerful who...

There’s a light shining in him, moving him forward: the light of freedom. That’s what draws all of us to follow, to take risks, to keep on fighting when we see our comrades fall beside...

Oblivion has always been the most trustworthy guardian of classified files.

Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.

You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.

Anger and fear are disabling trait behaviours, instilled in the opponent with care.