Peace in patriarchy is war against women.

I think war is a crime. If you don’t believe me, ask the infantry, ask the dead.

Politics is war without blood, while war is politics with blood.

I have placed my faith in humanity, but faith in the universal becomes meaningless without faith in the individual. – Panchali Draupadi

War! We go on killing each other to no purpose! It is war waged by humanity against humanity, and it will only end when there’s no one left to fight.

Some must be warriors, that others may live in peace.

This is the body’s nurse; but since man’s witFound the art of cookery, to delight his sense,More bodies are consumed and kill’d with itThan with the sword, famine, or pestilence.

Perhaps he simply assumed: a bitterness of habit, of boy after boy trained for music and medicine, and unleashed for murder.

Jeno wyjmij mi z tych oczuszkło bolesne – obraz dni,które czaszki białe toczyprzez płonące łąki krwi.Jeno odmień czas kaleki,zakryj groby płaszczem rzeki,zetrzyj z włosów pył bitewny,tych lat gniewnychczarny pył.

For no matter how many battles had been won or lost, no matter how many friends and soldiers killed, every battle felt like the first. And I realized that it wasn’t the training, nor the...

War is not a very good thing. It?s not nice to live in. It?s not nice for anyone.

When I got home from my war, my uncle Dan clapped me on the back, and he bellowed, ‘You’re a MAN now!’I damn near killed my first German.

He led her back to the house, the perfume from the acacia clinging to her. The djinn was supposed to live in the scent of the acacia blossom, making themselves visible only to the young...

Organizations like the UN do a lot of good, but there are certain basic realities they never seem to grasp …Maybe the most important truth that eludes these organizations is that it’s insulting when outsiders...

It is a legacy of the Cold War, … It is poorly founded, useless and can only be harmful. This should have been scrapped a long time ago.

In answer to ‘But violence hasn’t solved anything!’The hell it hasn’t. The application of violence – of killing and a willingness to be killed – on a massive scale is responsible for a lot of...

War Powers

The practice of deliberately making somebody believe things that are not true. An act, a trick or device entended to deceive somebody”.Thus, all war is based in metaphor.All war necessarily perfects itself in poetry.Poetry (since...

The war has moved to the west, which is a good . . . indicator that Iraqi and U.S. forces are having an effect elsewhere, … The amount of infiltration across the Syrian border remains...

A DEAD STATESMANI could not dig: I dared not rob:Therefore I lied to please the mob.Now all my lies are proved untrueAnd I must face the men I slew.What tale shall serve me here amongMine...

…the doctrinal differences between Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism. Holy wars are not fought over them because verbalized statements about...

Hello fake Everett children.

To put it bluntly, he could die. Any moment. But so could Robert and Sal and Toby. At least I am here with him. He’s not alone. Our other boys? They are alone out there...

War in heaven makes no peace on earth.

War’s a racket. No doubt. But war is a racket for the politicians, not the soldiers.

I’m off to make war, so that you may have love.

Then he’d come back home and found out that war didn’t cause fear- love did.

War was the ultimate chaos, a pounding, soul-destroying snarl, ending in blown-apart men lying unburied on the cold earth. There was nothing more cosmically chaotic than war.

War is a lot of things and it’s useless to pretend that exciting isn’t one of them. (pg. 144)

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

Suppose a country starts its independence with the three economic characteristics that globally make a country prone to civil war: low income, slow growth, and dependence upon primary commodity exports. It is playing Russian roulette....

It was mid-November 2008. There were pirates taking ships with impunity in African waters, terrorists punching holes in Indian security, China sinking towards depression because Americans were afraid to buy cheap goods for Christmas, and...

Decades would pass. A few short sections would be formed in time into strangely resurrected, trunkless legs-tourist sites, sacred sites, national sites.For the line was broken, as all lines finally are; it was on longing...

Attack is the secret of defense; defense is the planning of an attack.

Danger has a bracing effect.

Conceal your dispositions, and your condition will remain secret, which leads to victory; show your dispositions, and your condition will become patent, which leads to defeat.

The noble heart will find no shortage of places to offer itself in martyrdom, but you cannot die on every battlefield.”~ Duncan Sinclair, from The Outcast Highlander

War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!’ ‘Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical…There is no strength to...

On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.

In such a beast as this…” (he means the army)”…it was the collective power that went, collapsing like a long-exhausted animal, at once falling under its own weight as much as that of its enemy....

In the midst of the heavy, hot fragrance of summer, and of the clean salty smell of the sea, there was the odor of wounded men, a sickly odor of blood and antiseptics which marked...

War is essential for peace.

The missing remained missing and the portraits couldn’t change that. But when Akhmed slid the finished portrait across the desk and the family saw the shape of that beloved nose, the air would flee the...

It was nearly ten years since the peace though her memories of the war still felt fresh.

The fact that in the twentieth century a greater proportion of the people in the world could communicate with one another, using English or just a few other languages, appears not to have stopped any...

War is the health of the state.

But liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near-war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies...

War is unlike life. It’s a denial of everything you learn life is. And that’s why when you get finished with it, you see that if offers no lessons that can’t be bettered learned in...

When the old men fight, the young people die.