my face for peace – no more war in my name

We are at war, and we are treating it that way. Everyone is cutting through the red tape and making decisions.

A soldier wages war, and for what, minimum wage? I’d rather make love for free—or better still, get paid to have sex.

•Engagement can be a commitment to love or a declaration of war. One must enter every battle without hesitation, willing to fully engage the enemy until death do you apart.

The things men did or felt they had to do.

Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.

This is the start of the tug of war over what Rudman really means.

Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.

Morale was deteriorating and it was all Yossarian’s fault. The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

I saw Oberon charge into the fray on a huge black warhorse, glamour swirling around him, and sweep a hand toward the thickest of the fighting. Vines and roots erupted from the ground, coiling around...

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

Are you a communist?””No I am an anti-fascist””For a long time?””Since I have understood fascism.

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

Sometimes time can play tricks. One moment it idles by, an hour can seem a lifetime, such as when sitting by the river at dusk watching the bats snatching insects above the limpid waters; the...

I doubt I would use the word ‘casualty’. There is nothing casual about killing.

But other hordes would come, and other false prophets. Our feeble efforts to ameliorate man’s lot would be but vaguely continued by our successors; the seeds of error and of ruin contained even in what...

Talk of world peace is heard today only among the white peoples, and not among the much more numerous coloured races. This is a perilous state of affairs. When individual thinkers and idealists talk of...

The sergeants are shunted forward and they blink and stare up at Gonzo as he leans on the edge of his giant mixing bowl. MacArthur never addressed his troops from a mixing bowl–not even one...

But to us of a later generation…it is inconceivable that millions of Christian men should have killed and tortured each other, because Napoleon was ambitious, Alexander firm, English policy crafty, and the Duke of Oldenburg...

Are these soldiers really our enemy, or only the worst reflection of our own selves?… We made them. We have to unmake them, not just defeat or kill them.

Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what man is powerless to control.

Wer davonläuft kann später kämpfen.

It’s a war,

You’re British, you’re a priest, you’re a medical doctor, you can handle a rifle, you know Morse Code, and most importantly of all, you’re a fucking pain in the ass – so off you go!

It was strange to us that none of these three victims made any attempt to resist the attack. Indeed, not one inhabitant in any of these worlds considered for a moment the possibility of resistance....

They are certainly bracing for war,

Part of the terrible irony of war is that it enlists the best in human nature for purposes of mutual destruction.

Few indeed are those who get a choice. We do as we are told. We stand or fall beside those who were born near to us, who look as we do, who speak the same...

War, my friends, is a thing of beauty.

War: a wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization

War is not one-sided. It takes two blades to clash. It matters little who comes out on top, there is still a dead man at the end.

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

The attack came without warning, in the pre-dawn stillness on the day they were due to leave. A series of solid concussions shook the walls and sent Simon scrambling from his bunk. Max thrust a...

We are at war and I am a soldier.

Das Mädchen […] hatte wasserblaue Augen, die so klar waren, als hätten sie noch nie im Leben Leid oder Schrecken gesehen. Und dennoch spiegelte sich darin auch Härte. Was hast du erlebt, dass du dich...

We are at war. War is not on battlefield. It is in boardrooms of companies that control your United States of America.

What is happening? The war was over, wasn’t it?

No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herseif as ’embedded.’ To say, ‘I’m an embedded journalist’ is to say, ‘I’m a government Propagandist.

War, not peace, produces virtue. War, not peace, purges vice. War, and preparation for war, call forth all that is noble and honorable in a man. It unites him with his brothers and binds them...

Charlie started crying, in the convulsive, soundless way that men do. “Don’t you understand,” he said after composing himself, “that’s a funeral dirge for the first wave.” We all thought about that, the many lives...

The entire Nazi war machine was only possible because of past, present and future violations of the non aggression principle (achievable only through government).

In the context of war, especially a chaotic war, there is the inevitable targeting of marginal groups. There is a free-roaming sense of violence and a mob mentality.

Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter. One word absent from a sentence can drastically change the true intended meaning of the entire sentence. For instance, if the word...

Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans do not abandon the people.

Trench dirt didn’t always wash out, I am sure.

In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil

It should surprise no one that modern soldiers return home just as conflicted and detached as previous generations. The difference is that in the age of vapid American decadence, their simpler fundamental values are largely...

In the German tongue, in the Polish townScraped flat by the rollerOf wars, wars, wars …

Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other.

Women deserve better than organizations bearing the names of racist rapists funding million dollar campaigns on subway trains. These wealthy middle aged white men tell us what to do with our bodies while they wage...