Although I’m an atheist, I try not to crap all over people’s belief in God. It may be nothing more than a placebo, a fairy tale that gives the hopeless hope, but sometimes a little...

In other words, they appeal to the state for protection, but the state is precisely that from which they require protection. To be protected from violence by the nation-state is to be exposed to the...

So you love war. I used to think you were a decent man. But I see now I was mistaken. You’re a hero.

The human beings also passed canteens, which guards would fill with water. When food came in, the human beings were quiet and trusting and beautiful. They shared.

This discussion of war then lays the foundation for an understanding of change as a process and as an essential component of military affairs. Militaries must change to cope with the changing environment in which...

In her orchard the trees had been born from deaths; they marked and grew from the remains of the children that had passed through her.

That’s how Nigeria fell into civil war in the 1960s.

The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed.””I suppose one could say that Hitler didn’t betray his self.””You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray...

Stealing is what the army does. Taking your father, and mine.

Strength lies not in defence but in attack.

You actually cannot sell the idea of freedom, democracy, diversity, as if it were a brand attribute and not reality — not at the same time as you’re bombing people, you can’t.

Im Krieg machen die Starken die Schwachen zu Sklaven, im Frieden machen die Reichen die Armen zu Sklaven.

There is an old saying that there is no country as unhappy as one that need heroes.”(King Pelles the Sure)

It’s catastrophic. The south was extremely underdeveloped before the war. The war destroyed everything.

I have never been sad because my losses are my profits

Smartass Disciple: Master, you should teach people not to do war to each other.Master of Stupidity: I should teach people how to win their minds of their wars.

This isn’t champagne anymore. We went through the champagne a long time ago. This is serious stuff. The days of champagne are long gone.

I don’t remember Moses writing, ‘Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.

Civil war… What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as ‘foreign war’? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers? Wars could only be defined by their aims. There were no...

The adjacent shores resounded with the alternate shouts of the sons of liberty and the groans of their parting spirits.

Wars are an outdated way to try to solve conflicts, which is unacceptable in the 21st century. Instead of trying to conquer yourself, wars are an unconscious way to try to conquer life. Wars are...

We choose and make our heroes from what we have read, heard and believed in.

Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We were learning, expensively, just how efficient a total communism can be when used...

but without a war.

We often think of peace as the absence of war, that if powerful countries would reduce their weapon arsenals, we could have peace. But if we look deeply into the weapons, we see our own...

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical.

To begin by bluster, but afterwards to take fright at the enemy’s numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence.

The warrior learns of the spiritual realm by dwelling on the cutting edge of the sword, standing at the edge of the fire pit, venturing right up to the edge of starvation if necessary. Vibrant...

The world isn’t big enough for all of us.

The debacle in Iraq has reinforced the realist dictum, disparaged by idealists in the 1990s, that the legacies of geography, history and culture really do set limits on what can be accomplished in any given...

Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living...

Now we’re in the middle of a three-sided vampire war. Which would be an awesome video game, but I’m really not interested in playing for real. I like my reset buttons.

It was a war out there. I expected it would be a very physical game. I was surprised by how they stayed compact in front of the goal to keep us from scoring.

I detested their blind, thoughtless, automatic acquiescence to it all, their simpleminded patriotism, their prideful ignorance, their love-it-or-leave-it platitudes, how they were sending me off to a war they didn’t understand and didn’t want to...

Victory, is like a boxer that hangs his gloves, after the consecutive losses; sometimes walking away is what builds character, than the actual fight. As humble fruit on a tree that falls to the ground...

It had been his opinion that it might serve his country if the Chinese and his men saw that he was not afraid to die. For the comprehension of our age and the part treason...

During the few months Troy had been back home, he’d told his friends about us, and so we quickly eased into the conversation as though we’d all known each other for many years. They embarrassed...

Dear Beloved woman,Time… so much time has passed since my love wrote his last words for me.And yet I remember it as if it were yesterday. I remember writing back and for the first time...

They be marching hand in hand, like going to war.

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!

Do we need weapons to fight wars? Or do we need wars to create markets for weapons?

Escape.. escape.. escape by God. Never mind hunger pains, discomfort, or any other agony. Let escape become your passion, your one and only obsession until you finally reach home.

The warlike days are over. Blood is too precious a thing in these days of dishonorable peace; and the glories of the great races are as a tale that is told.

Samuel, safety is my watchword. Rest assured that proper procedures will be followed at all times.”Skipper giggled. “Tell me, Mump. What ARE proper procedures exactly?””Simple,” said Mump. “One: cause maximum chaos in the shortest possible...

The Dark Angel had seen much over the course of the past millennia, the passing of hundreds of thousands of mortal lives. He felt neither remorse nor mercy for the enemies he had felled in...

The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.

There is no right to punish. There is only the power to punish,’ she wrote. ‘A man is punished for his crime because the State is stronger than he; the great crime of War is...

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Praise be to the LORD my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.