How much energy they put into harming each other. How little into saving.

Akasha, for two thousand years I have watched,’ he said. ‘Call me the Roman in the Arena if you will and tell me tales of the ages that went before. When I knelt at your...

A weapon does not decide whether or not to kill. A weapon is a manifestation of a decision that has already been made.

It might be added, too, that it takes something more than preponderance of numbers to win a battle….

I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE… AND BEG EVERYONE… TO HELP RESCUE ALL IMPRISONED WOMEN.

Those darling byegone times, Mr Carker,’ said Cleopatra, ‘with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of torture, and their romantic vengeances, and their picturesque assaults and sieges, and everything...

Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate.

Fighting makes us feel alive, until it kills us. If it doesn’t kill us, the pain of sitting alone with ourselves, quietly, under constant assault by our own thoughts and memories of war can easily...

Though all the guns be silenced,each soldier in his home,There is no peace till Love comes,till the meek may safely roam.

I’m right; you’re wrong.

Inman’s only thought looking on the enemy was, “Go home.

The threat of war hung on the air like a thick fog and it blinded him until he could see nothing beyond the haze. Even the stars grew faint.

Nay, could their numbers countervail the stars,Or ever-drizzling drops of April showers,Or wither’d leaves that autumn shaketh down,Yet would the Soldan by his conquering powerSo scatter and consume them in his rage, That not a...

I don’t care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations…I don’t think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren’t...

I would be willing, yes glad, to see a battle every day during my life

There is an old saying that goes ‘Start by plucking a hair, end by killing a man’. It is also said, ‘Two hands must meet to make a sound’. The atrocities that happened here weren’t...

The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.

He even knew the reason why: because enough men had gone off to war saying the time for gardening was when the war was over; whereas there must be men to stay behind and keep...

Krieg ist eine bescheuerte Sache, doch trotzdem mussten wir ihn führen. Mussten. Fragt mich nicht, warum. Wir mussten.

Napoleon made war like I make love—from a height of about 68 centimeters. (I wear platform shoes while I’m on my knees)

Peace would always be less compelling than war. Perhaps that was why there was so little of it in the world. (p. 160)

This does not mean that you are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. But always...

It is the duty of youths to war against indiscipline and corruption because they are the leaders of tomorrow.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

When the war comes, you’ll find me on the front line, with some crayons, coloring outside the lines.

There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.

It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries,...

How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our mighty Designs, all our Navigations, and all our Wars are transacted, is when compared to them. A very...

It would be well to realize that the talk of ‘humane methods of warfare’, of the ‘rules of civilized warfare’, and all such homage to the finer sentiments of the race are hypocritical and unreal,...

Saddam’s politics was the politics of the thug, of violence from the outset of his reign. Realism suggests that some people are not going to be tractable in response to purely peaceable overtures. Indeed, it...

We came to realise – first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference – that intellect apparently wasn’t the most important thing…not ideas, but the system; not freedom, but drill. We had joined up...

In most communities it is illegal to cry “fire” in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

Food’s the killer. The clock starts as soon as the troops are on the ground. You wouldn’t believe how fast they consume what they’re carrying, and then … if I don’t get them more, if...

Consumers have fewer distractions now. There’s no threat of war any longer and the fourth quarter is traditionally a very strong sales period, … But it’s not going to be gangbusters.

Because if they grow up holding on to such terrible feelings, it could lead to another war come time in the future when the fate of the country is in their hands.

A smile flitted across War’s mouth, hidden by her helmet. She had little patience for religion (although she approved heartily of the religious fanatics who sought to cleanse the world of heresy), and the only...

A piece of benevolence, a shard of good will is sometimes all that is needed to raise a truly loyal army.

…the Constitution is an invitation for the president and Congress to struggle for the privilege of directing foreign policy. Although the president is the principal foreign policy actor, the Constitution delegates more specific foreign policy...

Most world religions denounced war as a barbaric waste of human life. We treasured the teachings of these religions so dearly that we frequently had to wage war in order to impose them on other...

In Malta, the Wars of Religion reached their climax. If both sides believed that they saw Paradise in the bright sky above them, they had a close and very intimate knowledge of Hell.

There is a dreamlike quality to the 1936 Basque government, the fulfillment of a historic longing that was to be crushed only nine months later in carnage the scale of which had never before been...

Will you still walk with me?’‘Would you walk with a bad angel?

We as Christians are called to battle. The problem is, we don’t fight about the right things and we do fight about the wrong things. We aren’t getting in the battle that we should and...

There is nothing worse than war in the summetime.

You… are the symbol of the revolution that will transform Aryavarta; you are the one who has brought us to this.– Panchali Draupadi

Some really earthshaking decisions are being made, which is why it is difficult, … And these are really decisions between war and peace and life and death.

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

How paltry are the traces left behind by a life, even one concentrated around those supposed things of permanence called words. We spend our time upon the earth and then disappear, and only one one-thousandth...

He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.