This is how I see humanity. When enemies come to your country, destroy the countryside and your village, kill your countrymen, your comrades and the defenseless wounded, you have to kill them and defend your...

The German people in its whole character is not warlike, but rather soldierly, that is, while they do not want war, they are not frightened by the thoughts of it.

WE KNOW YOU ARE SURROUNDED BY DARKNESS… IN THE TERROR FOREST! WE HOPE FOR MOONLIGHT!

Faut-il regretter le temps des guerres “à sens” ? souhaiter que les guerres d’aujourd’hui “retrouvent” leur sens perdu ? le monde irait-il mieux, moins bien, indifféremment, si les guerres avaient, comme jadis, ce sens qui...

The universal pervasion of ugliness, hideous landscapes, vile noises, foul language…everything. Unnatural, broken, blasted; the distortion of the dead, whose unburiable bodies sit outside the dug outs all day, all night, the most execrable sights...

America at a turning point! But in 1813 the United States and Nathan Jeffries may lose everything; blockaded, imprisoned, raided, massacred, Americans are feeling the wrath of British forces on land and sea. Nathan Jeffries,...

I’m done doing this!’ Obama said, finally erupting. ‘We’ve all agreed on a plan. And we’re all going to stick to that plan. I haven’t agreed to anything beyond that.’The 30,000 was a ‘hard cap,’...

The landscape had been so maimed by this new kind of warfare it was as if human architects of great genius had sat down to plan hell, since no two of them could agree on...

They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say ‘Shit, it’s raining!

As he grew older, which was mostly in my absence, my firstborn son, Alexander, became ever more humorous and courageous. There came a time, as the confrontation with the enemies of our civilization became more...

Righteous, I like that. Kinda fitting when you think about it. If we danced and shared music, we’d be too busy en-joy-in’ life to start a war.

It were indeed to be wish’d that our art had been less ingenious, in contriving means destructive to mankind; we mean those instruments of war, which were unknown to the ancients, and have made such...

There was a clatter as the basilisk fangs cascaded out of Hermione’s arms. Running at Ron, she flung them around his neck and kissed him full on the mouth. Ron threw away the fangs and...

Anyway, there were more after the war than before.

Yes, a war is inevitable. Firstly, there’s you fellows who can’t be trusted. And then there’s the multitude who mean to have bathrooms and white enamel. Millions of them; all over the world. Not merely...

Religion isn’t the cause of wars, it’s the excuse.

My squad was my family, my gun was my provider and protector, and my rule was to kill or be killed. The extent of my thoughts didn’t go much beyond that. We had been fighting...

War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior...

Happy Birthday.

We are trying to build peace by inventing new war machines; if that isn’t insanity than what is?

War or violence never can destroy enemies, only forgiveness can do that.

In love there are two evils: war and peace.

All other trades are contained in that of war.Is that why war endures?No. It endures because young men love it and old men love it in them. Those that fought, those that did not.That’s your...

A not-too-distant explosion shakes the house, the windows rattle in their sockets, and in the next room the class of 1964 wakes up and lets out a yell or two. Each time this happens I...

The French Revolution was the best thing to ever happen inside a croissant the shape of the Fertile Crescent, with a flaky crust like a politician with dandruff.” Of course, when Orafoura told me this...

Are the great spiritual teachings really advocating that we fight evil because we are on the side of light, the side of peace? Are they telling us to fight against that other ‘undesirable’ side, the...

It’s almost hard to imagine anything more undemocratic than the view that political officials should not debate American wars in public, but only express concerns ‘privately with the administration.’ That’s just a small sliver of...

Wars are fought by teenagers, you realize that. They really ought to be fought by the politicians and old people who start these wars.” (Interview with Don Swaim of CBS Radio-1986)

Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the [war] until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until...

Obuze, mitraliere, aburi de gaze, flotile de tancuri – strivire, devorare, moarte.

Septimus grinned. “It’s not coins I seek. I seek the power of Hercules.

A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.

What worries me is that out of so much hatred for the military, out of fighting them so much and thinking about them so much, you’ve ended up as bad as they are. And no...

Showed them what? How much blood can be spilled in a pointless battle?

Before this war is over,’ [Walter] said – or something said through his lips – ‘every man and woman and child in Canada will feel it – you, Mary, will feel it – feel it...

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a...

If the militarily most powerful and least threatened states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for...

Once we recognize our shadow’s existence we must resist the enticing step of going with its flow.

We broke camp together and set off in our opposite directions: we of the XIIth and our allies marched east, towards the rising sun, combat and honour; the IVth went west, to the setting sun,...

The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.

There is a cruelty that lurks in some men’s souls which is only released when they have other men in their power.

Weakness employs many weapons in its perpetual war against strength. True strength does not attack; it is too busy enduring attacks, and defending itself against weakness.

We are forced to fall back on fatalism as an explanation of irrational events (that is to say, events the reasonableness of which we do not understand). The more we try to explain such events...

They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene.

War is not just the business of death, it is the antitheses of life.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

Wars; in the past and in the present, they were not a solution – A peaceful solution is the wisest solution in the sense of humanity.

I’d rather stub out cigarettes on my tongue than go shopping.

2. Humanity & Peace – 2.09 THE NUCLEAR QUESTIONAny act against the constitution,Must be declared to be but void,But atomic acts against humanity,Are the strength to be but tried.[22]- 2The future of any of the...