There’s a light shining in him, moving him forward: the light of freedom. That’s what draws all of us to follow, to take risks, to keep on fighting when we see our comrades fall beside...

Oblivion has always been the most trustworthy guardian of classified files.

Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.

You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.

Anger and fear are disabling trait behaviours, instilled in the opponent with care.

Isn’t it funny how true peace describes war and chaos?

He remembered his mother’s love for him, and his family’s, and his friends’, and the enemy’s intention to kill him seemed impossible.

History is a symptom of our disease

The Wheel of Time spins: there is beginning and there is end. But why does the Wheel of Time spin? Is it some divine force that propels it? Or is that force humanity, people in...

Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even worse, as the fulfillment of God’s will.

The assassination of Allende quickly covered over the memory of the Russian invasion of Bohemia, the bloody massacre in Bangladesh caused Allende to be forgotten, the din of war in the Sinai Desert drowned out...

But as I peeked at my brother’s inert body….I was aware only of what a strange thing it was to be male. Society discriminated against women, no question. But what about the discrimination of being...

Human pigeons there the dancersGunfighters: metal-romancersThis war needs no necromancerIron shells its spell-commencerJournalists, writers: freelancerDonate words as ‘peace enhancer’Where’s the question when war’s the answer?Mortality now life’s financer!From the poem- “For Them” By Munia Khan

Wars are all fought by men who either believe they are right or who have no other choice. How they fight defines who they are when the blood stops flowing.

I would say that since the war, our methods-out and those of the opposition-have become much the same. I mean you can’t be less ruthless than the opposition simply because your government’s ‘policy’ is benevolent,...

I’m a fucking coward.””Maybe.” Craw jerked his thumb over his shoulder at Whirrun’s corpse. “There’s a hero. Tell me who’s better off.

After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned to Father and said, ‘Science has now known sin.’ And...

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer be of concern to great powers alone. For a nuclear disaster, spread by winds...

The Administration is now starting to lose its base on the war,

One month ago they started this psychological war and created a psychological atmosphere, that this or that would happen… there were even threats… but as you saw the atmosphere was strongly in favour of Iranian...

They’re strange, those wars.Full of blood and violence – but full of stories that are equally difficult to fanthom. “It’s true,” people will mutter. “I don’t care if you don’t belive me. It was the...

So the whole war is beause we can’t talk to each other.

It seemed to me then – and to be honest, sir, seems to me still – that America was engaged only in posturing. As a society, you were unwilling to reflect upon the shared pain...

People who spent the war in prison camps have written a lot of books about what a bad time they had,” she said quietly, staring into the embers. “They don’t know what it was like,...

What do you know of sacrifice? Need I tell you of York’s dead . . . of Sandal Castle? My brother did survive the battle, his first. He was seventeen and he entreated them to...

This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.

That’s war. It won’t let anyone get away unscathed. I’m sorry about Grete.”Verner aka ‘Jens’in the novel ‘the Informer’ by Steen Langstrup

Human has no experience at all aboutliving in a peaceful world without war.

It is man who kills, man who creates or suffers injustice; it is no longer man who, having lost all restraint, shares his bed with a corpse. Whoever waits for his neighbor to die in...

There’s never peace in war….perhaps it exists in one’s mind at the time.. however short-lived

There is no monopoly of common senseOn either side of the political fenceWe share the same biologyRegardless of ideologyBelieve me when I say to youI hope the Russians love their children too[…]There’s no such thing...

Hold onto one thought: You’re not important. You’re not anything. Some day the load we’re carrying with us may help someone. But even when we had the books on hand, a long time ago, we...

Un prigioniero di guerra è un uomo che cerca di ucciderti, non ci riesce, dopo di che ti chiede di non ucciderlo.

Do no be ashamed to make a temporary withdrawal from the field if you see that your enemy is stronger than you; it is not winning or losing a single battle that matters, but how...

If we can use an H-bomb–and as you said it’s no checker game; it’s real, it’s war and nobody is fooling around–isn’t it sort of ridiculous to go crawling around in the weeds, throwing knives...

We have only lost the rebounding war twice this year. This was the third. They’re a strong team. They just outworked us.

I keep thinking about the march I joined today. It’s bigger and stronger than war. That’s why it will win. The people must be the ones to win, not the war, because war has nothing...

I get ahead by fighting hard, But fighting keeps my spirit strong.

Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing.

The principle on which to manage an army is to set up one standard of courage which all must reach.

There was just such a man when I was young—an Austrian who invented a new way of life and convinced himself that he was the chap to make it work. He tried to impose his...

The essence of the Marine Corps experience, I decided, was pain.

It was like a war zone without the explosion.

You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.

What a tale he’s told, what a bitter bowl of war he’s drunk to the dregs.

There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it.

I remember Mitchell Sanders sitting quietly in the shade of an old banyan tree. He was using a thumbnail to pry off the body lice, working slowly, carefully depositing the lice in a blue USO...

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...