There was something terrible, but also something sad and melancholy in this long cry uttered by the Russian infantry as they staged an attack. As it crossed the cold water, it lost its fervour. Instead...

the apartment had been directly in the sight line of a Serb sniper across the river. Teta-Jozefina was a devout Catholic, but she somehow managed to believe in essential human goodness, despite all the abundant...

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

I think about something I once heard on the radio. About Abraham and Isaac.””I was afraid you’d say something like that.” “You asked.””So what about them? I don’t really know much about that kind of...

He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind – but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.

I can’t even produce a metaphor for the drug world anymore. I don’t even like the phrase the drug world since the phrase implies a different world.

Death and injury caused by armed violence is one of the most shameful epidemics of our age.

You’re not like other Wasps.””Aren’t I?” Aagen smiled, but it was a painful smile. “No doubt you’ve killed my kinsmen by the score.””A few,” Salma allowed.”Well, next time you shed my kinden’s blood, think on...

Across the world, the lack of accountability for the harm to the environment and public health caused by conflict and military activities undermines global efforts to help fragile countries recover from armed conflicts

I had only to remember that centuries before, men fell in battle for the daughter of Troy, that passions carried greater weight than decorum. It took so little to prove that human life and property...

This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds, or lands, nor anything about glory, honour, might, majesty, dominion, or power, except War....

War is always an adventure to those who’ve never seen it.

McChrystal had organized a jaw-dropping counterterrorism campaign inside Iraq, but the tactical successes did not translate into a strategic victory. This was why counterinsurgency – blanketing the population in safety and winning them over –...

Well, then he would be at war with the government, and death was an unfortunate side effect of any revolution. Change always had a price tag. But once he took over, the people would realize...

Don’t you get it? Can you imagine the…the heroism? That’s what grace is all about. He didn’t even think for one second about himself. All he thought about was that little girl, and saving her...

I will always hate war, but will be forever proud of mine.

Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.

If we don’t end war, war will end us.

He asked, ‘Croesus, who told you to attack my land and meet me as an enemy instead of a friend?’The King replied, ‘It was caused by your good fate and my bad fate. It was...

This was a matter of some small group of guerrillas in some distant caves, a primitive, fanatical, and desperate people who didn’t have the resources to intimidate the United States.

How is it possible to have a civil war?

Für wahre Marktgläubige macht es keinen Sinn, wenn du sagst, dass es dir kein Vergnügen macht, dich in einen Wettbewerb mit deinen Mitmenschen zu begeben, und dass du dich lieber zurückziehen möchtest. Du kannst dich...

Der Krieg stellt Fragen, auf die der Frieden keine Antwort hat.

War was easy. The hard part was cleaning up afterward.

I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory.

If the future generation has a difficult life, if they engage in war or commit crime it’s not their fault, it’s our fault because we fail to educate them. So responsibility resides on me, on...

War, hate, jealousy, racism – what are they but manifestations of fear?

Master of magic, god of war, Odin wanders alone.

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can...

I’d start a war just to illustrate the value of peace.

The man who did the shouting at the P.S.U.C. post down on our right was an artist at the job. Sometimes, instead of shouting revolutionary slogans he simply told the Facists how much better we...

my face for peace – no more war in my name

We are at war, and we are treating it that way. Everyone is cutting through the red tape and making decisions.

A soldier wages war, and for what, minimum wage? I’d rather make love for free—or better still, get paid to have sex.

•Engagement can be a commitment to love or a declaration of war. One must enter every battle without hesitation, willing to fully engage the enemy until death do you apart.

The things men did or felt they had to do.

Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.

This is the start of the tug of war over what Rudman really means.

Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.

Morale was deteriorating and it was all Yossarian’s fault. The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

I saw Oberon charge into the fray on a huge black warhorse, glamour swirling around him, and sweep a hand toward the thickest of the fighting. Vines and roots erupted from the ground, coiling around...

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

Are you a communist?””No I am an anti-fascist””For a long time?””Since I have understood fascism.

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

Sometimes time can play tricks. One moment it idles by, an hour can seem a lifetime, such as when sitting by the river at dusk watching the bats snatching insects above the limpid waters; the...

I doubt I would use the word ‘casualty’. There is nothing casual about killing.

But other hordes would come, and other false prophets. Our feeble efforts to ameliorate man’s lot would be but vaguely continued by our successors; the seeds of error and of ruin contained even in what...

Talk of world peace is heard today only among the white peoples, and not among the much more numerous coloured races. This is a perilous state of affairs. When individual thinkers and idealists talk of...

What a terrible thing war is, what a terrible thing!

As if men did not die fast enough, they are ingenious at finding out ways to destroy one another.