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.

War, money and greed that is the modern heinous Trinity, and they are inseparable these days.

Homo sapiens! The name itself was an irony. They had not been wise at all, but incredibly stupid. Lords of the Earth with their great gray brains, their thinking minds had placed them above all...

3. War Peace & Action – 3B.02 LOVE & PEACEHatred goes not by hatred,Violence not by violence,Disappear hatred and violence,By love, understanding, non-violence.[241]- 3B

I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will be laid desolate. And I believe that it can come true. I believe...

We believed that it was most desirable that the North should win, we believed in the principle that the Union is indissoluable, we, or many of us at least, also believed that the conflict was...

Lord of War

There is something brittle in me that will break before it bends. Perhaps if the [the enemy] had brought a smaller army I might have had the sense to run. But he overdid it.

We only dream of things we know and people that we’ve seen… War and pain is all I know, it is all I can ever see.

While There may be power in forgiveness, there is even more power in lobbing a Molotov cocktail through someone’s dining room window.

He [Harry Bosch] defined good company not by the conversation but by the lack of it. When there was no need to talk to feel comfortable, that was the right company

It’s a product thermo-nuclear war out there. Everybody is coming out with new hardware.

On the face of it, no one could have been less equipped for the job than these gently nurtured girls who walked straight out of Edwardian drawingrooms into the manifold horrors of the First World...

Ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. That was the whole idea, right? That‘s why we went. I am reluctant to let that fact disappear down the memory hole, because if— as the war ends,...

How could you have a war on terrorism when war is terrorism?

Now comes the reign of iron — and cased sloops are to take the place of wooden ships.

I am not a committed pacifist. I would not hold that it is under all imaginable circumstances wrong to use violence, even though use of violence is in some sense unjust. I believe that one...

Rather, both sides fought as soldiers fought in most wars–for survival, and to protect the men who had become extended family.

We have to HIDE from each other because we think that we are the only ones BROKEN. We think we’re the only ones whose original selves we ground up and smashed under the jack-booted heel...

Revenge is possible only if you spare the enemy.

Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel amongst the bridge players and swillers of easy-come-by whisky. My chest got me out of active service and into...

Let us also acknowledge that the hearts which suffer the most from our wars are those of mothers. Their vital voices have been left out of the political equation for too long. An Iraqi or...

I spent half my childhood trying to be like my dad. True for most boys, I think. It turns with adolescence. The last thing I wanted was to be like my dad. It took becoming...

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

They said it was only a ground shark; but I was not wholly reassured. It is as bad to be eaten by a ground shark as by any other.

Sećam se da sam jedno jutro video ispred samoposluge nekog popa kako ljušti kikiriki, odmah mi je bilo jasno da neće biti mira na Balkanu.

For no one makes aggresive war unless he excepts to win

My mom and dad refused to believe that people who had grown up together in peace and friendship, had gone to the same schools, spoken the same language, and listened to the same music, could...

Station is the paradox of the world of my people, the limitation of our power within the hunger for power. It is gained through treachery and invites treachery against those who gain it. Those most...

If those who are sent to draw water begin by drinking themselves, the army is suffering from thirst. [One may know the condition of a whole army from the behavior of a single man.]

Great results, can be achieved with small forces.

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

Commanders and historians are the people who discuss wars; I was in the infantry, and most of the time I did not know where I was or what I was doing except that I was...

There is no time to plan, there is no space to think. No respite. No forgiveness. There is only war.

We are one, you and I. Brothers in hate, brothers in cunning, brothers in the spirit of vengeance.

People walk the paths of the gardens below, and the wind sings anthems in the hedges, and the big old cedars at the entrance to the maze creak. Marie-Laure imagines the electromagnetic waves traveling into...

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

Another victim of an absurd war.

Do you know why? Because there will always be bigots and cowards and power-mad devils in positions of omnipotence. Look around you. There has been war here since time began. It’s nature. Animals kill each...

I want you, Rosa,’ Antonio said, turning to her. ‘I want you with your scars and your suffering. You are my wife and everything that has happened to you only makes you more precious to...

I have heard ballads of great battles, and poems about the beauty of a charge and the grace of a leader. But I did not know that war was nothing more than butchery, as savage...

What we dedicate today is not a memorial to war, rather it’s a tribute to the physical and moral courage that makes heroes out of farm and city boys and that inspires Americans in every...

Britain wouldn’t have won the war without its eccentric geniuses.

The Northwestern Carpathians, in which I was raised, were a hard place, as unforgiving as the people who lived there, but the Alpine landscape into which Zlee and I were sent that early winter seemed...

Only the language of civilized people may be spoken, thus no German.

I didn’t want to die – not before I’d finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow.