The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

This life is ironic: for it takes pain to discover pleasure; it takes sadness to know happiness; it takes war to value peace; and it takes hatred to treasure love.[Culled from: “Amara & The Strange...

Do not ill-treat or take advantage of foreigners who are living in your land. Treat them as you would a fellow- brother, and love them as you love yourselves. Remember that you were once foreigners...

Wer Feind ist, ist keine rechtliche, sondern eine politische Frage.

In the war, to survive, you had to be responsible every minute of every day, unhesitatingly responsible for yourself, for your every action. You had to be responsible for your buddies, too, because survival wasn’t...

Entre pauvres gens, faut bien qu’on s’aide … C’est les grands qui font la guerre.

Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.

Gun up,’ he whispered to Skosh. The word went back to invisible kids lying on the jungle floor. ‘Set it in here,’ Mellas whispered to Conman. ‘Put Vancouver with his machine gun one-eighty from it.”He...

Horgias nodded, his lips drawn back in a smile that was a wolf’s snarl. ‘They want us all flogged. Why us?’‘Lupus,’ Syrion said. ‘The other centurions hate him, even among the Fourth. He’s too distant....

One of the great myths about war is that there is a ground zero, a center stage, where the terrible forces unleashed by it can be witnessed, recounted, and replayed like the launching of a...

Every wars casts humanity back into the primordial slime.

One has indeed personally to come under the shadow of war to feel fully its oppression… by 1918 all but one of my close friends were dead.” J.R.R. Tolkien

Davout looked up and gazed intently at him. For some seconds they looked at one another, and that look saved Pierre. Apart from conditions of war and law, that look established human relations between the...

I don’t know how to stop the atrocities. I don’t know how to make people care. But looking into my sister’s eyes, we seem to have carved out something between us that none of the...

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

Good Godfrey!

Let that be absolutely clear, that if it’s war the LTTE wants … then it is war that it will get,

It is never right for any individual or government to do any vast evil as a means to some hypothetical good.

Blood is everywhere..Vultures take shelter beneath the tanks;for the fumed sky is unsafe for their avian flight to prey on the Palestinian flesh.

perception” because America is a very all-or-nothing society… We like to know, and for everyone else to know, that our victory wasn’t uncontested, it was positively devastating.

War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.” – Baba

Darling,has anyone ever fought for you?

The first casualty of a civil war was justice, Philip had realized.

Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries...

There were clashes here and there, but civil war is a red line no one wants to cross.

It was harder for the ones who were waiting, Annemarie knew. Less danger, perhaps, but more fear.

the biggest damage to the Baghdad Zoo had not been done in battle, fierce as it had been. It was the looters. They had killed or kidnapped anything edible and ransacked everything else. Even the...

Universal peace-time conscription was adopted by almost all countries as the basis of their military system. This ensured that wars would grow bigger in scale, longer in duration, and worse in effects. While conscription appeared...

There is only one way to win a war which has begun: To stop it immediately; that is the way!

The artificial primacy of defense among our national priorities is a constant unearned windfall for some, but it’s privation for the rest of America; it steals from what we could be and can do. In...

You see all the other fellows were so active and earnest and all that sort of thing- always rampaging, and skirmishing, and scouring the desert sands, and pacing the margin of the sea, and chasing...

War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in...

and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.

T.J. Hooker war ernster.

Feeling of hatred unto your enemy, drains your energy as enemy wanted.

Wie ich heimschritt bemerkte ich mit einemmal vor mir meinen eigenen Schatten so wie ich den Schatten des anderen Krieges hinter dem jetzigen sah. Er ist durch all diese Zeit nicht mehr von mir gewichen...

And maps can really point to placesWhere life is evil now:Nanking. Dachau.

In a world where the most consequential things happen by chance, or from unfathomable causes, you don’t look to reason for help. You consort with mysteries… They have been killed in place of you –...

We’re going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us what we’re doing, you can say, We’re remembering. That’s...

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war...

I told her that saying goodbye didn’t matter, not a bit. What mattered were all the days you were together before that, all the things you remembered.

Pthis violence, as a process, is perpetuated from generation to generation of oppressors, who become its heirs and are shaped by it.

It was not well to drive men into final corners; at those moments they could all develop teeth and claws.

You meet me after school right here”, I said.”Why?” he asked.I couldn’t believe he was so stupid.”Because we’re going to finish this fight.””You’re crazy,” Roger said.He got to his feet and walked away. His gang...

Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.

Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted.

When your army has crossed the border, you should burn your boats and bridges, in order to make it clear to everybody that you have no hankering after home.

If, on the other hand, in the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate ourselves from misfortune.

Unreal City, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,I had not thought death had undone so many.Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled,And each man fixed his eyes...

Who in the universe halts when the enemy tells them to?