War…is ugly and brutalizing, and the nobility is in doing it without becoming ugly and brutalizing.

When facing a decision that stands a 50/50 chance of being correct, the choice made will be wrong 80% of the time. Rick Coxen

The world understood and had observed, that the parties to the armed conflict at Gaza in 2014 transgressed the ken of human rights and those who understand the subject of legal violations have already deciphered...

Brave’ covers everything from complete insanity and bloody disregard of other people’s lives – generals tend to go in for that sort – to drunkenness, foolhardiness, and outright idiocy – to the sort of thing...

If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies. The sealed world in which...

I think a cool war helmet is painted with red and white concentric circles, exactly like a bull’s eye. But I’m not a fighter—I’m a lover. That’s why I’m joining the military. I figure after...

To survive one tragedy was to learn you cannot survive them all, and this knowledge was both a freedom and a great loss.

Ser? My lady?” said Podrick. “Is a broken man an outlaw?” “More or less,” Brienne answered. Septon Meribald disagreed. “More less than more. There are many sorts of outlaws, just as there are many sorts...

Place yourself… You are either a.) part of the problem; b.) part of the solution, or c.) part of the landscape.

The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.

They spend billions of their currency every year on killing each other, and because they invest so much into killing, they don’t have enough money to run their shops, to give people enough homes or...

Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The...

The words we choose to use when we communicate with each other, carry vibrations. The word ‘war’ carries a whole different vibration than the word ‘peace’. The words we use are showing how we think...

Can’ttrustpeople. Won’tdoanygood. They’llkillyoueverytime. They’llkilleachother. They’llkilleveryone.

My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I attack.

​”One could have mistakenly assumed that each train could choose its own destination. But there was no choice. The Nazi operator sat in the station booth, his hands on levers and switches, forcing each train...

You felt, in spite of all bureaucracy and inefficiency and party strife something that was like the feeling you expected to have and did not have when you made your first communion. It was a...

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

Quitting is unthinkable and pain is just weakness leaving the body

Governor Paetus…’ Lupus closed his eyes that we might not read the rage in them. ‘Governor Paetus has informed us that he will return to our camp at Rhandaea with the Fourth legion, there to...

I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.

You cannot choose your battlefield,God does that for you;But you can plant a standardWhere a standard never flew.(From The Colors)

An unavoidable war is called justice. When brutality is the only option left it is holy

See what’s inside a drop of water. The whole seed of the universe. Come, come. See what’s inside a drop of blood. The composition of life. It’s all there. Hate as well. We approach the...

Kill them. Kill them all. Remind the world what it means to be Arya. Remind the world what it is to walk with the gods. – Syoddhan Kauravya

But he would give the Spainish no satisfaction. When they offered him a drink, he smashed the glass and ate the shards, preferring his own English blood to their sweet wine. He died soon after.

Tonight I light the candles for all the souls who were merely pawns in the game we call rules of engagement and everything remains as it never was

I guess, my advice would be the following: stay calm and do not let the panic seize you.

It is a rule in paleontology that ornamentation and complication precede extinction. And our mutation, of which the assembly line, the collective farm, the mechanized army, and the mass production of food are evidences or...

In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down.

He scarcely knew who was battling whom, who was winning, who was losing, as though he hoped that by doggedly ignoring the war it would return the favor

Captain I don’t want to be here,” was all he could choke out. Thomas reached over and gave Cricket’s shoulder a tight squeeze.

Of course you know, this means war.

You’ve lived through a lot of wars, I said. “Yes.”Do they ever make more sense?”No.

[I]n my own case at least I feel my professional need for freedom of speech and expression prejudices me toward a government whose constitution guarantees it.

There was a loud shuffling above. A line of redcoats took their position at the edge of the ravine and aimed down at the rebels.”Present!” the British officer screamed to his men.”Present!” yelled the American...

You’re sure a long way from home.” He radioed through for instructions and indicated that I should bring my hired car up to the side of the roadblock and wait.

Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.

Every time a war ends, under a beautiful sun, on the face of a crying child; I see a rainbow of hope over the innocent teardrops.

You couldn’t live close to war and not have it grab you eventually.

The world is a different place in this new century, […]. And we are a different people. My visions still come but no one listens any longer to what they tell us, what they warn...

The enormous amount of financial resources and creative energy that nations have spent on wars and weapons could have been redirected to curing deadly diseases, feeding the hungry, eliminating poverty, promoting art and culture, investing...

[Investors have to ask themselves how much higher tech stocks might go when the war starts.] From a financial standpoint, we’re already at war, … Much of the impact is already felt.

But these weren’t the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around–they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in...

Ever wonder why the media never refers to 18 or 19 year old American soldiers as “armed teens”?

Damned Beaver/Jeremy is the War, he is every assertion the fucking War has ever made–that we are meant for work and government, for austerity: and these shall take priority over love, dreams, the spirit, the...

Most governments strive to keep the masses from thinking; if the masses began to think the government would not be in power – rjs

My DNA is not negotiable.. I will not sacrifice my dignity nor the dignity of my nation and succumb to such psychopathic dictatorship!!.. The blood in my veins spans back 7000 years.. You cannot alter...

God does not care where you pray. He only cares what is in your heart.

Delight in smooth sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts … genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation … the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart...