One day when I went out to my wood-pile, or rather my pile of stumps, I observed two large ants, the one red, the other much larger, nearly half an inch long, and black, fiercely...

My mind knows what is right, but my flesh is at war against my spirit?

There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.

all you say is true. But Rhaegar lost on the Trident. He lost the battle, he lost the war, he lost the kingdom, and he lost his life. His blood swirled downriver with the rubies...

I do detest the human race as a whole, but some groups are more deserving than others,

In November, when our nation remembers her fallen soldiers and honours the lost youth of my generation, the Prime Minister, government leaders and the hollow men of business affix paper poppies to their lapels and...

But what I would like to know,” says Albert, “is whether there would not have been a war if the Kaiser had said No.””I’m sure there would,” I interject, “he was against it from the...

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.

For no matter how many battles had been won or lost, no matter how many friends and soldiers killed, every battle felt like the first. And I realized that it wasn’t the training, nor the...

War is not a very good thing. It?s not nice to live in. It?s not nice for anyone.

When I got home from my war, my uncle Dan clapped me on the back, and he bellowed, ‘You’re a MAN now!’I damn near killed my first German.

He led her back to the house, the perfume from the acacia clinging to her. The djinn was supposed to live in the scent of the acacia blossom, making themselves visible only to the young...

Organizations like the UN do a lot of good, but there are certain basic realities they never seem to grasp …Maybe the most important truth that eludes these organizations is that it’s insulting when outsiders...

It is a legacy of the Cold War, … It is poorly founded, useless and can only be harmful. This should have been scrapped a long time ago.

In answer to ‘But violence hasn’t solved anything!’The hell it hasn’t. The application of violence – of killing and a willingness to be killed – on a massive scale is responsible for a lot of...

War Powers

The practice of deliberately making somebody believe things that are not true. An act, a trick or device entended to deceive somebody”.Thus, all war is based in metaphor.All war necessarily perfects itself in poetry.Poetry (since...

The war has moved to the west, which is a good . . . indicator that Iraqi and U.S. forces are having an effect elsewhere, … The amount of infiltration across the Syrian border remains...

A DEAD STATESMANI could not dig: I dared not rob:Therefore I lied to please the mob.Now all my lies are proved untrueAnd I must face the men I slew.What tale shall serve me here amongMine...

…the doctrinal differences between Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism. Holy wars are not fought over them because verbalized statements about...

Hello fake Everett children.

To put it bluntly, he could die. Any moment. But so could Robert and Sal and Toby. At least I am here with him. He’s not alone. Our other boys? They are alone out there...

War in heaven makes no peace on earth.

War’s a racket. No doubt. But war is a racket for the politicians, not the soldiers.

I’m off to make war, so that you may have love.

Then he’d come back home and found out that war didn’t cause fear- love did.

War was the ultimate chaos, a pounding, soul-destroying snarl, ending in blown-apart men lying unburied on the cold earth. There was nothing more cosmically chaotic than war.

War is a lot of things and it’s useless to pretend that exciting isn’t one of them. (pg. 144)

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

Suppose a country starts its independence with the three economic characteristics that globally make a country prone to civil war: low income, slow growth, and dependence upon primary commodity exports. It is playing Russian roulette....

It was mid-November 2008. There were pirates taking ships with impunity in African waters, terrorists punching holes in Indian security, China sinking towards depression because Americans were afraid to buy cheap goods for Christmas, and...