It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The...

I suppose there hasn’t been a single month since the war, in any trade you care to name, in which there weren’t more men than jobs. It’s brought a peculiar, ghastly feeling into life. It’s...

I wish the military were the militerary. Less fighting and more reading.

Women will bring peace into this world.

Terrorist’, noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.

[Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean tried to turn around the World War II argument.] Democratic Presidents Roosevelt and Truman led America to victory in World War II because they laid out a clear plan...

To avoid a nuclear war . . . you may think that’s pretentious but that’s its main goal.

Our culture has become so obsessed with celebrity that it’s easy to confuse fame with success. They are not the same thing.

From the earth, from the air, sustaining forces pour into us–mostly from the earth. To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier. When he presses himself down upon her long...

The specter of war, at least until the 19th of April, seems to have gone away. Until then, the cease-fire is bound to hold. But while smiling at each other, both sides will continue making...

But history, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in. Can you?””Yes, I am fond of history.””I wish I were too. I read it a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that...

Fallujah was a Guernica with no Picasso. A city of 300,000 was deprived of water, electricity, and food, emptied of most of its inhabitants who ended up parked in camps. Then came the methodical bombing...

[The wives of powerful noblemen] must be highly knowledgeable about government, and wise – in fact, far wiser than most other such women in power. The knowledge of a baroness must be so comprehensive that...

Many want to be a warrior but they don’t know what a lonely, tough, or pain staking journey it is. Warriors have to fight on behalf of the defenseless, defend what is right, as well...

You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.

When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.

Sometimes the old ways will not give you up”…Chief–Lobi Tribe

…habían sido objeto de revueltas políticas, violentas disputas con sus vecinos y finalmente de invasión por una de las nuevas superpotencias mundiales. En medio de todo esto, odiar a un adversario se convirtió en algo...

In the history of battles and wars, the massacres of civilians were the main reason of revolutions success.

Cindy Sheehan has become the Rosa Parks of the anti-war movement, … She’s tired, fed up and she’s not going to take it anymore, and so now we stand with her.

the great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood

And so there was no single cause for war, but it happened simply because it had to happen

At the advent of danger there are always two voices that speak with equal force in the human heart: one very reasonably invites a man to consider the nature of the peril and the means...

War does that, nothing for it. Reality lays siege. Your framed portrait of life is smashed, and a new one thrust upon you. It’s ugly, and you don’t even want to look at it let...

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...

Chamberlain raised his saber, let loose the shout that was the greatest sound he could make, boiling the yell up from his chest: Fix bayonets! Charge! Fix bayonets! Charge! Fix bayonets! Charge! He leaped down...

A war without a strategy cannot be won. Then it is merely a battle where more lives are lost than necessary.

The law of war is harsh. If there’s anything good at all in a war, it’s that it brings the best and the worst out of people: some people try to use the lawlessness to...

War, war is still the cry, `War even to the knife!’

Our impression is that they were mercenaries, but this is something that I’m sure will be looked into by war crimes investigators, who are now going into Kosovo in considerable numbers to try to figure...

Ich versuche mir vorzustellen, wie es wäre, wenn mir dies Erleben zum ersten Mal auf solche Art zuteil geworden wäre. Ich muß den Gedanken abbremsen, so was ist nicht vorstellbar. Eines ist klar: Wäre an...

I believe that this war, upon which I entered as a war of defence and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest.

You want Paradise, you gotta build it on war, on blood, on envy and naked greed.

When you get right down to it, militaries are essentially legalized mafias.

Hatred is always at war with love that keeps growing.

The War,’ said a soldier proverb, ‘will last a hundred years–five years of fighting and ninety-give of winding up the barbed wire.

The thrill I had looked forward to for so long just wasn’t there. In the middle of war, amidst so much suffering and death Hollywood seemed far off and unimportant.

Saigon in utter darkness this last night of the war. A gestating monster. Her letter to Linh had been simple: I love you more than life, but I had to see the end.

We obviously don’t live in a perfect world. If we did, then my dad would never have volunteered for Vietnam so he could use the GI Bill to pay for college, Uncle Google would have...

Quelli che sono in grado di vincere una guerra possono raramente realizzare una pace conveniente, e quelli che possono realizzare una buona pace non hanno mai vinto una guerra.

The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude...

We’re in the middle of a spiritual battle but also in the middle of a cultural war. Your generation is being pounded with sexual messages. … All the messages being sent through the movies, the...