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...

We have no home. Please help me and my baby. God will bless you.” I noticed her broken teeth. My heart sank; I turned my face to the other side. My God! If I turned...

War between free-will and predestination makes the idea of time travel is still too difficult to digest.

Displaced Person’s SongIf you see a train this evening,Far away, against the sky,Lie down in your woolen blanket,Sleep and let the train go by.Trains have called us, every midnight,From a thousand miles away,Trains that pass...

Invisible violence in Pakistan, violence against brown people, ongoing violence in Iraq — that’s got to be quantified in the same way as the cinematic glamorous violence that happens in recognisable cities.

She consoled herself with the thought that the pictures were graphic enough to shake people up, stop them being complacent about what was happening, and if that meant the war would end sooner, those two...

Be safe, she whispered. Then she closed her eyes and said in a low, broken monotone, “I love you.KailaniSiobhan Fallon

There is a very simple relationship between increased socioeconomic rifts in the society and increased violence, criminality, war, increased lack of trust between people, health problems and social exclusion – but it seems to be...

Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes; old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age; neither creed nor color nor place of origin is relevant to the realities of...

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.

one may know how to gain victory, and know not how to use it

The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front.

The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which...

Ciente de tuas capacidades e limitações, não inicies nenhuma empreitada que não possas levar a cabo.

first lay plans which will ensure victory, and then lead your army to battle; if you will not begin with stratagem but rely on brute strength alone, victory will no longer be assured

There is one fairly good reason for fighting – and that is, if the other man starts it. You see, wars are a great wickedness, perhaps the greatest wickedness of a wicked species. They are...

Before you leave here, Sir, you’re going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.

Well, I myself am a 100% atheist. And I am increasingly worried that the Israeli-Palestinian struggle, which dominates our entire life, is assuming a more and more religious character.

To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not. It...

Do the people in this country approve of this war?” […].”Approve? You don’t think we’d lie down and let the damned Thuvians walk all over us? Our status as a world power is at stake!””But...

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

A few names were known in full, some in part, some not at all. No one cared. Except in clearly unreasonable cases, a soldier was generally called by the name he preferred, or by what...

One cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

…I knew in the end the guilt of one side did not prove the innocence of the other.

His knowledge of war has fed a passion for peace.

As long as the peace-makers are armed with assault rifles, it’s highly unlikely we’ll ever have peace.

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant,...

Ole Miss is always a war. Both teams are going to battle and be physical. I’ve quit watching all their road games. I watch tapes only when they are home because they play at a...

Pigs are horses. Girls are boys. War is peace.

The time approachesThat will with due decision make us knowWhat we shall say we have and what we owe.Thoughts speculative their unsure hopes relate,But certain issue strokes must arbitrate;Towards which, advance the war.They exit marching.

Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth’s foundations fled,Followed their mercenary callingAnd took their wages and are dead. Their shoulders held the sky suspended;They...

Matar al enemigo, aunque su muerte ya no tenga sentido… Así es la guerra. El odio genera odio hasta que no resta más para destruir.

Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept it, I was being offered a second history.

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes

They say it is a wide road that leads to war and only a narrow path that leads home again.