We are trying to build peace by inventing new war machines; if that isn’t insanity than what is?

War or violence never can destroy enemies, only forgiveness can do that.

In love there are two evils: war and peace.

All other trades are contained in that of war.Is that why war endures?No. It endures because young men love it and old men love it in them. Those that fought, those that did not.That’s your...

A not-too-distant explosion shakes the house, the windows rattle in their sockets, and in the next room the class of 1964 wakes up and lets out a yell or two. Each time this happens I...

The French Revolution was the best thing to ever happen inside a croissant the shape of the Fertile Crescent, with a flaky crust like a politician with dandruff.” Of course, when Orafoura told me this...

Are the great spiritual teachings really advocating that we fight evil because we are on the side of light, the side of peace? Are they telling us to fight against that other ‘undesirable’ side, the...

It’s almost hard to imagine anything more undemocratic than the view that political officials should not debate American wars in public, but only express concerns ‘privately with the administration.’ That’s just a small sliver of...

Wars are fought by teenagers, you realize that. They really ought to be fought by the politicians and old people who start these wars.” (Interview with Don Swaim of CBS Radio-1986)

Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the [war] until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until...

Obuze, mitraliere, aburi de gaze, flotile de tancuri – strivire, devorare, moarte.

Septimus grinned. “It’s not coins I seek. I seek the power of Hercules.

A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.

What worries me is that out of so much hatred for the military, out of fighting them so much and thinking about them so much, you’ve ended up as bad as they are. And no...

Showed them what? How much blood can be spilled in a pointless battle?

Before this war is over,’ [Walter] said – or something said through his lips – ‘every man and woman and child in Canada will feel it – you, Mary, will feel it – feel it...

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a...

If the militarily most powerful and least threatened states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for...

Once we recognize our shadow’s existence we must resist the enticing step of going with its flow.

We broke camp together and set off in our opposite directions: we of the XIIth and our allies marched east, towards the rising sun, combat and honour; the IVth went west, to the setting sun,...

The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.

There is a cruelty that lurks in some men’s souls which is only released when they have other men in their power.

Weakness employs many weapons in its perpetual war against strength. True strength does not attack; it is too busy enduring attacks, and defending itself against weakness.

We are forced to fall back on fatalism as an explanation of irrational events (that is to say, events the reasonableness of which we do not understand). The more we try to explain such events...

They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene.

War is not just the business of death, it is the antitheses of life.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

Wars; in the past and in the present, they were not a solution – A peaceful solution is the wisest solution in the sense of humanity.

I’d rather stub out cigarettes on my tongue than go shopping.

2. Humanity & Peace – 2.09 THE NUCLEAR QUESTIONAny act against the constitution,Must be declared to be but void,But atomic acts against humanity,Are the strength to be but tried.[22]- 2The future of any of the...

They are certainly bracing for war … but they continue to participate in the talks.

We have shared the incommunicable experience of war, we have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top. In our youth our hearts were touched with fire.

Certainly, they’d had to endure the war, but they had each other close by. They had never known the confusion of being a third-worlder, they had always a home!

The French model was exceptionally good at the end of the second World War. You needed a very enlightened elite of technocrats to lead the continent, with American money of course. France has been very...

The future is won or lost in the war of ideas.

An agile, well-trained, brave elephant, ridden by a good mahout, its trunk armed with the kind of sabre known as a qartal and covered with chain mail, while the rest of its body is protected...

It was the most unglamorous picture of war I’ve ever read.

One thing I know from living with Jack is that war, any war, stains a man deep, and nothing can get the stain out. They can wear clothes like a rancher or a banker, but...

He says we need to live in the real world, where war and death are a reality, not pretend.

Remember if it’s not happy then it’s not the end so babe keep fighting, you’ll win this war.

Indeed,” Fowler answered. He turned and looked at Tony critically. “I say, old man, but you’re not much older than that German kid.”Yeah,” Tony grinned. “But I’m from Texas and meaner than a junkyard bulldog....

Darwinism by itself did not produce the Holocaust, but without Darwinism… neither Hitler nor his Nazi followers would have had the necessary scientific underpinnings to convince themselves and their collaborators that one of the worlds...

What kind of peace?

The Gunner’s Dream (From The Final Cut)Floating down through the clouds Memories come rushing up to meet me now. In the space between the heavens and in the corner of some foreign field I had...

It was during this terrible night that the three wounded died, and the jeeps froze solid.

Faith is constantly at war with fear.When faith is the winner, there’s peace.

A patriot fights his government for his people whilst a traitor fights his people for his government

old” normal at least. You have to invent the new normal.I knew that I needed to take an honest appraisal of my life. Were my problems really bigger than me? Of course not. That’s why...

Some people have a heart to do evil and they don’t care if you’re Muslim or Christian.