So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one’s fatherland is to wish evil to one’s neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country...

The best of your life could be the rest of your life, if you decide it will be so.

It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone’s fault. If it was us, what did...

as long as there arehuman beings aboutthere is never going to beany peacefor any individualupon this earth (oranywhere elsethey mightescape to).all you can dois maybe grabten lucky minuteshereor maybe an hourthere.somethingis working toward youright now,...

I WILL FOLLOW ANYONEAND TELL EVERYONEABOUT…THE REAL WAR ON WOMENON YAZIDI GIRLS & WOMEN

Go forth and light the lights of war

Au temps de La Barbarie à visage humain, je disais, comme Camus : l’idéologie est un multiplicateur de massacres ; on tue d’autant plus, et en d’autant plus grand nombre, qu’on le fait dans la...

What passing bells for these who die as cattle?Only the monstrous anger of the guns.Only the stuttering rifle’s rapid rattleCan patter out their hasty orisons.No mockeries now for them; no prayers, nor bells,Nor any voice...

My body is a political battlefield.It is a place of war, of death and suffering, of triumph and victory, of damage and repair, of blood and tears and sweat.It is a place where memories go...

Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.

In the grim darkness of the far future there is more than war. There are real people there too.

When the world is to come to it’s final destruction the powerful will always reason of peaceful nuclear programs which in my own words is a shameful chapter to start when the world has already...

This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.

Are we not all one flesh? One mind? A sword brings power. Knowledge brings coin. With either, one can make blood reckoned, can earn names. The only thing that differs between a noble man and...

The only lies that are true are the ones that you believe.

War is progress, peace is stagnation

They claimed that there were 6.2 million in Poland before the war, and they claimed after the war there were 200,000 – therefore he must have killed 6 million of them. They simply got up...

The thing people don’t understand about an army is its great, unpunctuated wastes of inaction: you have to scavenge for food, you are camped out somewhere with a rising water level because your mad capitaine...

It’s like a war – they come in completely covered with masks and goggles and check if the carcasses are disposed properly.

We took a bowl each and started eating. He went back into the little room, and by the time he returned to the table with his own bowl of food to eat with us, we...

The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.

Yea ! by your works are ye justified–toil unrelieved ;Manifold labours, co-ordinate each to the sending achieved ;Discipline, not of the feet but the soul, unremitting, unfeigned ;Tortures unholy by flame and by maiming, known,...

For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed;And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill,And their hearts but once heaved,...

Some of us, perhaps all of us, believe that it is legitimate to kill enemy soldiers in a war, as if war were a special circumstance that shrinks the sizes of enemy souls.

Captive Greece took captive her savage conquerer and brought the arts to rustic Latium

Suppose two men at cards with nothing to wager save their lives. Who has not heard such a tale? A turn of the card. The whole universe for such a player has labored clanking to...

Hitherto, the rights and wrongs had seemed so beautifully simple.

Mow the carpet, vacuum the lawn, and make love like war.

As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.

A number I’d love to know: the % of those now saying ‘we have to vote Obama to stop an attack on Iran’ who will support one if Obama does it.

The thing is, you cannot ask people to coexist by having one side bow their heads and rely on a solution that is only good for the other side. What you can do is stop...

It is morally appalling for the so called liberators of South Sudan to keep liberating their own people from a war that has already been won.

For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress — to the future.

Our problems come not from what we believe, but from how we believe in what we do.

The great Sugambrian shrugged. “I did. I supposed you’ve proven your worth. But no man should have to kill his own father. I should know.

The proposition is peace. Not peace through the medium of war; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations; not peace to arise out of universal discord, fomented from principle,...

My heart is bigger than my fist.

It was never worth the blood that has been spilled here today.

Don’t start a fight if you can’t duke it out. Either win or concede but whatever you do, don’t have others fight for you.

I did not say anything. I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so...

If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the war.[Apology to the international anti-submarine committee for being absent from several meetings during...

How could you get mad at someone who neither needed to attack nor was at all worried about being able to defend? It was like getting mad at Switzerland.

They’re going to come out hard. It’s going to be a war.

Use art, be creative. No more war. No more children dying. A pawn that does not move in chess upsets the game. I know there is love in the world still and that is what...

War has no longer the justification that it makes for the survival of the fittest; it involves the survival of the less fit. The idea that the struggle between nations is a part of the...

Teddy didn’t really understand the attraction of the dark side for the young these days. Perhaps because they had never experienced it. They had been brought up without shadows and seemed determined to create their...

The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking

There is no honor in sending men to die for something you won’t even fight for yourself

Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony.

And when there is the possibility of peace, a new fight erupts, based on an old complaint, and which some people call justice adn others madness.