I don’t want to die.” That is what death is like. It doesn’t matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn’t matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what...

There are certain verses in the Quran which convey injunctions similar to the following: ‘Kill them wherever you find them.’ (2:191) Referring to such verses, there are some who attempt to give the impression that...

There is much to love, and that love is what we are left with. When the bombs stop dropping, and the camps fall back to the earth and decay, and we are done killing each...

right side” of the war, ever heard—let alone answered?

Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and Mehmets to us...

And so this is Christmas…what have you done?

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I...

It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win the war.

The sun rises in the east every morning and falls in the west, Ayden. Darknesses are awaken and fate is tested, destinies are foreseen. Thy soul the only enemy, a hero is born. A new...

No matter how slow or long it takes, it is never too late to right a wrong.

If you haven’t been in a war and are wondering how long it takes to get used to losing everything you think you need or love, I can tell you the answer is no time...

Love enough to end a war.

The only teacher that’s worth anything to you is your enemy.

The reason the founders chafed at the idea of an American standing army and vested the power of war making in the cumbersome legislature was not to disadvantage us against future enemies, but to disincline...

He who is ready to die for his country is a fool. For he didn’t choose where he was born; and where he was born didn’t choose him.

Ne jau par savu godu ir jācīnās. No visām šai pasaulē iespējamajām darbībām karš ir tas, kurā goda ir vismazāk. Vienīgais gods ir cīnīties un mirt tikai tāpēc, lai karš beigtos un vairs nekad nebūtu...

That our selves and all men are apt and prone to differ it is no new Thing in all former Ages in all parts of this World in these parts and in our deare native...

well, I became a drug addict and I lost my house, family, and my job and all that.” It’s not because you became a drug addict but, because there is a war on drugs which...

It comes down to this: we’re pieces of equipmentTo be counted and signed for. On occasion some of us break down,And those parts which can’t be salvagedAre replaced with other GI parts, that’s all.

The Poetic Assassin

One dead body required two men either to bury it or to transport it to the rear. A wounded soldier, on the other hand, immobilized five men for an indeterminate amount of time; and who...

Japan likewise put her hopes of victory on a different basis from that prevalent in the United States. (…) Even when she was winning, her civilian statesmen, her High Command, and her soldiers repeated that...

In War: Resolution,In Defeat: Defiance,In Victory: MagnaminityIn Peace: Good Will.

After every war someone has to tidy up.

All souls can earn IMMORTALITY.The Creators have IMMORTALITY.The Creators are the’ ONLY’ ONES’To award IMMORTALITY…FROM MY BOOK: War between Souls over First Universe Justice Awaits

It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.

The idea for the Guild first came up at a party. Your father and I met there and, well, I suppose that’s a story all its own. But we were both frustrated by the media...

…men unite against none so readily as against those whom theysee attempting to rule over them.

War crimes, you say?No matter how many policies you put on paper, in reality, there are no rights and wrongs in war. War itself is a crime. War cannot be justified. I believe, the only...

If he sends reinforcements everywhere, he will everywhere be weak.

War is nothing more than organized insanity. That’s why crazy and unexpected tactics work most of the time. When they don’t, we won’t live to tell about it.

Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity

Peace imposible,war improbable.

My species has a great many good reasons for making war, though none of them is as good as the reason for not making war.

It was not,’ said Jutta, reaching the limits of her French, ‘very easy to be good then.

In any war story, but especially a true one, it’s difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen. What seems to happen becomes its own happening and has to be told that way....

Every true artist is at war with the world.

That which is physical wears out and returns to mother nature; but the soul we sacrifice in the process of taking from mother nature we cannot get back.

A war changes people in a number of ways. It either shortcuts you to your very self; or it triggers such variations that you might as well have been a larva, pupating in dampness, darkness...

The king is a saint and cannot rule, and his son is a devil and should not.

Let me ask you one questionIs your money that goodWill it buy you forgivenessDo you think that it couldI think you will findWhen your death takes its tollAll the money you madeWill never buy back...

To the militant, identity is everything.

He who kills from afar knows nothing at all about act of killing. He who kills from afar derives no lesson from life or from death; he neither risks nor stains his hands with blood,...

The whole city seemed to be pinned down, fascinated by the glassy stare of the Lubyanka. Krymov had thought about various people he knew. Their distance from him was something that couldn’t even be measured...

The war consciousness is purposely cultivated to guide the male away from the natural, healthy balances between masculine and feminine energies, and toward more unbalanced and detached psychologies.

War would end if the dead could return.

Some only follow the holy man while others only follow the warlord. But the truth is, both sides are within all of us, and if people could only see that, they wouldn’t have to wear...

Even in war there should be lines you didn’t cross.

Thì ra cuộc đời tôi kỳ thực có khác nào con thuyền bơi ngược dòng sông không ngừng bị đẩy lui về dĩ vãng. Đối với tôi tương lai đã nằm lại phía sau xa...

Afterward, there was that long, crowded pause in which everyone decides that although they are very shaken, and possibly upside down, they are, to their surprise, still alive.