If you want peace in your life, you have to stop declaring war.

I think you can be an enemy of Saddam Hussein even if Donald Rumsfeld is also an enemy of Saddam Hussein.

Mawdryn stared at the Brigadier with such a look of pain and longing. For a moment the old soldier’s mind went back thirty-five years to his first taste of action as a young lieutenant in...

She supposed they were imperfections, those marks, but they didn’t feel that way to her; they were a history, cut into his body: the map of a life of endless war.

If you aren’t preparing for life like a war, you’ll end up living like a prisoner of war.

If we didn’t know better we would love one another.

I will follow anyone…And remind everyone…Of enslaved Yazidi women…Raped…And forced…To donate blood to ISIS men…

Keep the shields touching!” I shouted at my men.

We have to Build Bridges of Peace Instead of building Walls of Wars.

The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.

There were nine casualties during the battle of Kirkuk. My husband was among them.

No matter how fast weapons and technology evolve in the 21st century, one thing remains constant is that war is a human endeavor, a grueling contest between two learning and adaptive forces. Victory, therefore rests...

War pacifies itself.

Have you noticed,” said John, “how countries call theirs ‘sovereign nuclear deterrents,’ but call the other countries’ ones ‘weapons of mass destruction’?

In Sarajevo in 1992, while being shown around the starved, bombarded city by the incomparable John Burns, I experienced four near misses in all, three of them in the course of one day. I certainly...

Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than war…. We all keep quiet and they try to convince us that what we’ve seen, what we’ve done, what we’ve learned about ourselves and about others, is an illusion, a...

The best thing we could have done for Afghanistan was to get out of our Humvees and drink more green chai. We should have focused less on finding the enemy, and more on finding our...

The world had been divided into two parts that sought to annihilate each other because they both desired the same thing, namely the liberation of the oppressed, the elimination of violence, and the establishment of...

Taran. We go down fighting.

Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.

You’re going to keep making these mistakes as long as you keep carrying your brain in the same scabbard with your sword, Lelldorin.

She wanted to tell him so much, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and the surest proof is their armies. If they ask you to stand still,...

Food is like war. You have to experience it for yourself.

His men had begun gathering the wounded or stunned into a small group some distance back up the slope. Here and there an animal or human stirred, but not many. There were few cries of...

Politics is an endless, borderless war against individual liberty.

Some people create war and misery, some create wealth and money, and some create ideas and art. But we all create our own deaths, fashioned out of our lives. Nobody will remember how you died,...

Arms control is by definition a rejection of disarmament.

No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

We spent today sending men to hell. What’s more natural than to pass the night dreaming of procreating a few more to take their place?

I wish somebody would have told my grandpa about the Cold War, so he could have at least put on a jacket.

The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use.

In the realm of power, Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty—necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels. This...

Enfim, por alguma razão se fazem as guerras, respondeu o avô, levantando as sobrancelhas. Só nas guerras é que os homens podem matar-se uns aos outros sem serem castigados.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite time in the future.

-Why are we fighting them?–They’re mad. We’re sane.–How do we know?–That we’re sane?–Yes.–Am I sane?–To all appearances.–And you, do you consider yourself sane?–I do.–Well, there you have it.–But don’t they also consider themselves sane?–I think...

Destruction makes people go away so,if you hide inside destruction,you’re safe

As it stands, our patrols and bases are just targets, and the more firepower we use, the more enemies we make.

I am a war president.

Victorious troops are those who kill more, and here we were the victims. This put the finishing touch to our demoralisation. The soldiers had lost conviction long ago. Now they lost confidence.

Girls at war opt for a quieter cruelty than fistfights and drive-by shootings. Girls circumvent the corporeal and go straight for each other’s souls. The bleeding is harder to stanch.

That’s the guy. He’s next on everybody’s list. This is going to be quite a tug-of-war over him.

A pen is neither good nor bad. It’s what you do with it that makes it a weapon of war or a tool of peace.Likewise, love is neither good nor bad. It’s what you do...

I wanted to make people think, to open their minds, to give them a full picture of what was happening in Iraq so they can decide whether they supported our presence there.

War is society’s dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up some failure on the part of the adults.

Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

Peace be with you,” I said, and as I turned to resume my journey with Coyote, I added under my breath, “and asskicking be with me.

There are very few men and women, I suspect, who cooked and marketed their way through the past war without losing forever some of the nonchalant extravagance of the Twenties. They will feel, until their...

Ja nie mogę nic pani ofiarować. Nie mogę pani dać nic, prócz siebie. Nie zapewnię żadnych ziemskich dóbr, życia dostatniego, stabilnego czy bezpiecznego. Wiem, że nie jest to wymarzony moment na miłość. Jestem tylko biednym...

To us, it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other because Napoleon was ambitious or Alexander was firm, or because England’s policy was astute or the Duke of Oldenburg was...

We didn’t do it to trigger a fare war. We did it really because this is a price that we know will get people to fly more frequently. I want to put a lot of...