Son, a real battlefield lacks dignity and honor. When lives are being spent—actual human lives—those high-minded concepts lose their meaning. All that matters is victory. If you have blades, you’ll use blades. If you have...

In questi anni di guerra ho visto molti attacchi di panico.Conosco due ragioni a queste crisi. Nel prima caso, sono le sensazioni fisiche violente a scatenare la paura. Ne risulta uno stato di totale smarrimento,...

No one is fighting for my freedom unless they are doing it on my soil.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

A war that includes four-year-olds with AK 47s is a war that no one can win — been if some men… go home victorious.

Each day is an opportunity to build the defenses of peace in the minds of people.

You must learn to end the wars in your world by ending them in your minds.

With commitment and vision, it is possible to build a bridge between potential partners and communities whose work is of relevance to peace-building initiatives.

We wouldn’t even have wars, if adults followed the rules they learned as children. A four-year old would be able to see how foolish grown men are behaving if you explained the war in child’s...

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.

We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.

War isn’t about making historywar is about breaking the present.

Engage the enemy more closely.

There are casualties in war. Those who don’t make it back to a place of sound hopes and dreams. Some take on their demons alone. They are deceived into fearlessness and trampled by the hooves...

Are you okay, man?””Yeah, I’m good.”It’s a lie. I wonder if I will ever be good again.

In the beginning war looks and feels like love. But unlike love it gives nothing in return but an ever-deepening dependence, like all narcotics, on the road to self-destruction. It does not affirm but places...

And in heaven’s name, who are the public enemies?” exclaimed Dr. Leete. “Are they France, England Germany or hunger, cold and nakedness?

The quick, sudden terror of exploding bombs is not the same as the never-ending, bone-sapping fear of discovery and capture. It never goes away. There isn’t ever any relief, never the possibility of an ‘All...

I would like you all to remember that we have lost the battle but not the war. Puerto Rico was one of our main rivals. This notwithstanding we did not expect to have such a...

In the time that we’re here today, more women and children will die violently in the Darfur region than in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Israel or Lebanon. So, after September 30, you won’t need the UN...

Generals were early to bed, early to rise, always brushing their teeth after every meal, never skipping a morning shave. All they had to do was sit back in Nagano drawing up their battle plans....

We are at war… the worst kind of war.

We were not told how Alexander the Great was the last person in history to successfully ‘pacify’ what would become Afghanistan, over 2,000 years ago.

More Americans died in WWII than in any other world war, with the possible exception of WWI.

An arguing couple spiraling into negativity and teetering on the brink of divorce is actually mathematically equivalent to the beginning of a nuclear war.

One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough.

She did not respond, only clung harder to my embrace, and I held her with all the afflictions of a man torn by love. What a miracle she was, what a truly exquisite paragon of...

To stop a battle, a politician would propose a war.

It is not enough to live together in peace, with one race on its knees.

Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.

I don’t think we’re so wary about war. We’re wary about being misled. We’re wary about costs of a war that didn’t have to be waged.

Whenever and wherever men have engaged in the mindless slaughter of animals (including other men), they have often attempted to justify their acts by attributing the most vicious or revolting qualities to those they would...

Once war becomes a clash of absolutes, there is no breathing room for mercy. Absolute truth is blind truth.

I lie down on many a station platform; I stand before many a soup kitchen; I squat on many a bench;–then at last the landscape becomes disturbing, mysterious, and familiar. It glides past the western...

planned to go to war all along.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we...

Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet?

You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You’re dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!

Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty.

Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to preserve one’s homeland

Heroes didn’t win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story — the dead didn’t say a word. All of it was bullshit.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

If we knew how to find the lost, we would know how to rediscover the parts of our mindsleft behindin battle.

If wars still exist, it’s because we don’t love peace enough.

It’s always good to be underestimated.

Rostov kept thinking about that brilliant feat of his, which, to his surprise, had gained him the St. George Cross and even given him the reputation of a brave man – and there was something...

I’ve come to accept that parts of life are constant, that just because something happens on two different days doesn’t make it a goddamn miracle.

The only thing more dangerous then your enemy knowing how powerful you are, is your enemy not knowing how powerful you are.

Violence is itself a form of political mobilisation. It is mainly directed against civilians and not at another army. The aim is to capture territory through political control rather than through military success. And political...