Every form of human conflict may be reduced to precisely the same pattern of mental events. We are all totalitarian despots over our own thoughts, bound to keep our minds in complete control. Control requires...

Life mash, Lucia has said, when Eva told her Christopher had gone to war. Eva had asked her what it meant, and Lucia explained it was a patois expression, meaning everything was messed up and...

I have gone to war and now I can issue my complaint. I can sit on my porch and complain all day. And you must listen. Some of you will say to me: You signed...

War makes animals of men, and we can’t let that happen to us. If we do, we won’t have any chance of survival.

Lebedev: France has a clear and defined policy… The French know what they want. They just want to wipe out the Krauts, finish, but Germany, my friend, is playing a very different tune. Germany has...

Darkness. The door into the neighboring room is not quite shut. A strip of light stretches through the crack in the door across the ceiling. People are walking about by lamplight. Something has happened. The...

We would soon be on our way to war, where mercy is unwise and kindness has no place.

This tune goes manly.Come, go we to the King. Our power is ready;Our lack is nothing but our leave. MacbethIs ripe for shaking, and the powers abovePut on their instruments. Receive what cheer you may.The...

Some days in the camp you prayed to live; some days you prayed to die quick. Some days you didn’t bother praying, knowing there was no sense to anything.

I no longer feel allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself. I think that Peeta was onto something about us destroying one another and letting some decent species take over. Because...

A good roast of sun, it slows you, lets you relax–and out here if there’s anything wrong, you can see it coming with bags of time to do what’s next. This is the place and...

Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.

The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency- showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.

The Purpose of life is to thrive and save lives with passion! Save Yazidis today with love and compassion!

Vous travaillez pour l’armee, madame?’ (You are working for the army?), a Frenchwoman said to me early in the Vietnam war, on hearing I had three sons.

We have to consciously build the elements of a world based on a culture of peace and disarmament. This is a task for everyone. It is multidimensional in scope, requiring meaningful participation of people at...

Holy shadows of the dead, I am not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brother people to fight one another. I do not feel...

In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by. Even though he was a highly skilled man, a maker...

No one starts a war warning that those involved will lose their innocence – that children will definitely die and be forever lost as a result of the conflict; that the war will not end...

In both marriage and war you must cut up the things people say like a cake and eat only what you can stomach.

And so the afternoon stretched on, and Ezbon toasted their imminent defeat to the dregs.

Suppose that we agree that the two atrocities can or may be mentioned in the same breath. Why should we do so? I wrote at the time (The Nation, October 5, 1998) that Osama bin...

In the spring of 1990 I flew to Aspen, Colorado, to cover a summit meeting between Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President George Herbert Walker Bush. This fairly routine political event took on sudden significance...

I’m concerned that the American public is rapidly being given the impression that this is the bill for the war. It’s not. It’s the down payment for the bill for the war. and (by) that...

I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in...

War, in its fairest form, implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice.

The greatest thrill is not to kill but to let live.

I believe that people are holy because they’re made in the image of God, and a place can be holy when God is present—but no place is so holy that it’s worth shedding the blood...

One should never fight for a country. One should fight, if one has to, for what one believes to be right. A country is only as good as its leading citizens.

You’ll know I’ve gone into ninja mode because I’ll have turned out the light. I make love like an assassin, and if you hear me snoring, I’m only pretending to be asleep! All love is...

We have a war here,

We were hoping to get thousands of Iraqis trained before the war and as it turns out we were only able to train a few score and that was unfortunate.

I see that old flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.

One can completely rule out the threat of a civil war.

He was selling war bonds, but he still got bumped.

Acts of violence– Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death–and the meaninglessness of killing.

I want a house with a garage, so someone from the government won’t try to park a tank in my living room.

We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silent encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

CREEPOther people have written about war. About how one plane sweeps over and the whole place is ablaze in minutes. About how a young man may kill another young many with perfect legality. I prefer...

We are not in a state of war with anybody.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

[It] is hardly possible to maintain seriously that the evil done by science is not altogether outweighed by the good. For example, if ten million lives were lost in every war, the net effect of...

Give ’em all the same grub and all the same pay/And the war would be over and done in a day.” – All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 3

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

I think war is a dangerous place.

He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard.

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.