In the next days it took little provocation for us to flick the flint of our Zippo lighters. Thatched roofs take the flame quickly, and on bad days the hamlets of Pinkville burned, taking our...

I have no sense of what War is like; It may be like disaster Hollywood movies. But i wish india and Pakistan fight a War and devour all ; instead of decapitating one-by-one

You gotta admit, it’s a messed-up world when going to war is safer than staying home.

To the eyes of the American soldiers who drove past, I looked no different from the women around me; and as I thought of it, who could say I was any different? If you no...

War?’ The word held too much definition for three letters.

Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.

The sun’s champagne streamed from one body into another. And there was a couple on the green silk of the grass, covered by a raspberry umbrella. Only their feet and a little bit of lace...

When those who had been evicted went back to where they came from, they found their villages had disappeared under great dams and dusty quarries. Their homes were occupied by hunger-and policemen. The forests were...

There have been ample opportunities since 1945 to show that material superiority in war is not enough if the will to fight is lacking. In Algeria, Vietnam and Afghanistan the balance of economic and military...

At the fringe edge of advancement it’s a war of anarchy and chaos.

No two countries that both had McDonald’s had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald’s

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.

then I hope I end up in Damnation. At least there I might be able to get a wink or two of sleep.

You have a chance to save lives! If you don’t take it, you may regret it!

War limits the deads. It limits them to the cimetery … (La guerre limite les morts. – Les limite au cimetière…)

Although peace can be negotiated by governments, it is ultimately the responsibility of the people themselves to make it last. All of us have a role to play to create a world in which peacecan...

For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the moon. It reads, ‘We came in peace for...

It’s a cruel fact of war that it takes little more than applying pressure to one finger to end another person’s life. More than that, it’s a cruel fact of life that we are hardwired...

The schools wear the blank faces of war buildings, their windows blown blind by rocks or guns or mortars. Their plaster is an acne of bullet marks. The huts and small houses crouch open and...

Since opposed principles, or ideologies, are irreconcilable, wars fought over principle will be wars of mutual annihilation. But wars fought for simple greed will be far less destructive, because the aggressor will be careful not...

We really ought to put on intense pressure to see that we aren’t back on the brink of war every time Saddam Hussein feels like it and push hard to try him as a war...

All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then...

First, our enemies were the natives, then they were the Nazis, then after a while it was the communists. Finally, at the pinnacle of what we’re calling civilization, our enemies are the Islamic terrorists. Our...

And it was darkSo dark at nightAnd we held on to each otherLike brother to brotherWe promised our mothers we’d writeAnd we would all go down together

It is you who are old fashioned with your machine-guns and your gas and your talk of country.

The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy or fairness or even trees, except maybe the ones in their own yards,...

Though there had yet to be a victor in this great war that had begun almost three years ago, Maurice had written to her that they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their...

What if making peace with our warring hearts—peace within—is the first step to world peace?

Diese Haltung zur Opferung von Menschenleben ist seltsam. Militärbefehlshaber überlegen nicht zweimal, wenn sie Soldaten in die Schlacht schicken und dabei genau wissen, dass viele von ihnen sterben werden. […] Andererseits verbietet es der Offiziersethos,...

In 1944, we were in the middle of a world war, and Egypt stood at the crossroads in the middle of the Mediterranean. It was not, perhaps, precisely the right moment in diplomatic history to...

I wish I could grow swords like I can roses. Wouldn’t war be so romantic then? Then the U.S. could really show the world how much it loves it.

And where there are shadows, there is light, Liebchen.

War is hell, but sometimes in the midst of that hell men do things that heaven itself must be proud of. A hand grenade is hurled into a group of men. One of the men...

Waiting for a battle was the hardest part. Unless you got a dagger in your gut during the battle. Then that was hardest. Or you got through just fine and saw your men dead around...

The future belongs to nations who have grains not guns.

All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers… Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.

Speaking of grandmas, have you heard the joke about grandparents and WWII? No? Well, if you do, be sure to tell me because I’d like to hear it too.

I let him kiss me because he had been in war and he fought for me, … I only wish now I had had a conversation with him or asked his name.

First Afghanistan, now Iraq. So who’s next? Syria? North Korea? Iran? Where will it all end?’ If these illegal interventions are permitted to continue, the implication seems to be, pretty soon, horror of horrors, no...

Clearly Clinton made a gamble — the gamble that you could go to war without calling it a war. That you could use force without using ground troops. That you could fight a major fight...

Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.

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.

We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

I’ve had a lot of lieutenants over the years, and all the good ones were sick, sick individuals. You might be the best one yet.

But it’s natural for men to compete against each other. We’ve been doing it since the cave days. Why else do we have wars? Wars are competition, no matter what the politicians call them.

The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.

Politics is merely war by other means.-an old Andorian saying

War is hell and waiting is hell and war is waiting.