He’s finished, he must leave, peacefully better than through war,

He was just a small church parson when thewar broke out, and heLooked and dressed and acted like all parsonsthat we see.He wore the cleric’s broadcloth and he hookedhis vest behind.But he had a man’s...

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...

War was a dungeon for the spiritually condemned

When youre sharing a foxhole with another man, you don’t worry about what color he is, just whether or not he will protect your back

Why is it a shame for me to cause them to die and try to exterminate them, tell me? You did not talk that way when you used to come to my house in Jeanne-d’Arc...

No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime.

War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.

There are no atheists in the foxhole.

Peter had spent his whole life in a town where fights were either drunken and friendly, or silent and petty. True war was foreign to him. He thought of how scared and confused he had...

peace is boring, chaos is more fun

Boredom slays more of existence than war.

Men and boys always want to go fight. They are always looking for a reason to go to war. It is the saddest thing. They have this abiding notion that war is fun. And no...

Men like you and I make myths, we weave stories to sanctify the life that has been given to us. But not Govinda. Men like him don’t make myths; they make destiny. – Kshatta Vidur

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 I saw, we would never...

Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some mysterious workings of force within his soul will stand in defiance against any...

It’s always dangerous covering war, but for the most part [before], there were kind of neutral zones. That’s not the case now.

Set your peace freebefore your caged mind catchesyou again in another dream trapwhere you may loathe to be your own menace awaiting in hope of a war-less world !

There’s a natural tendency after a war ends to put it away and put it to the side. But if you don’t face up to the consequences from the get go, you’re basically going to...

The guns reminded me that this was just an attempt to punch holes in the darkness that enveloped us now.

Les djihadistes ont massacré les innocents et entendent désormais tuer l’amour.

I had the good fortune and opportunity to come home and to tell the truth; many soldiers, like Pat Tillman… did not have that opportunity. The truth of war is not always easy. The truth...

Everyone has the best of feelings towards mankind in general, but not towards the individual man. We’ll kill men, but we want to save mankind. And that isn’t right, your Reverence. The world will be...

From time to time our national history has been marred by forgetfulness of the Jeffersonian principle that restraint is at the heart of liberty. In 1789 the Federalists adopted Alien and Sedition Acts in a...

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.