Religion is a belief or a curriculum. It can’t hurt people or start wars. People hurt people, and people start wars. The real problem is the narcissist, for he can’t control his anger and believes...

If one only donates what is not of want, one will always have what is not of need.

I run through the woods, at once applauding myself for my wit-“”Well deserved, sir. Well deserved.””And at the self instant, I am grinding my teeth because I am a vain, revenging idiot and shall be...

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

…this protracted war will pass through three stages. The first stage covers the period of the enemy’s strategic offensive and our strategic defensive. The second stage will be the period of the enemy’s strategic consolidation...

That day I saw people trying to feed themselves but managing to do so only on a subsistence level. And people who are hungry are not worried about communism or Communists.

The Englishman left months ago, Hana, he’s with the Bedouin or in some English garden with its phlox and shit.

The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people.

That’s what you get,’ he said, nodding towards a group of the men engaged in some close-order military drill, ‘when you give people Bibles and guns. You should give ’em either one or the other,...

This is what the war has done to me. Now I want to destroy because of it. There is such hate and rage inside of me now. The Angkar (Khmer Rouge government) has taught me...

Do you understand economics? I mean big-time, prewar, global capitalism. Do you get how it worked? I don’t, and anyone who says they do is full of shit.

Imagine there’s no countriesIt isn’t hard to doNothing to kill or die forAnd no religion tooImagine all the peopleLiving life in peaceYou may say that I’m a dreamerBut I’m not the only oneI hope someday...

Statul!… Statul care ucide!… În spate statul nostru, în față statul dușman, și la mijloc noi

When they killed him, Mother wouldn’t hold her peace, so they slit her throat. I was stupid then, being only nine, and I fought to save them both. But the thorns held me tight. I’ve...

A daughter, a wife, a grandson,’ You could say this place took away all I had. I could easily appear to be one of those unfortunate white men you hear about, who thought too lovingly...

Whenever a group produces murderers, the early parental relationship must have been abusive and neglectful. Yet this elementary truth has not even begun to be considered in historical research; just stating that poor mothering lies...

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.

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

Todavía se prolongó la lucha, y se amontonaron los muertos. Pero al final de la mañana, después de una batalla que mereció canciones, los guerreros de las Tierras Fértiles pudieron mirar su victoria. Eso que...

The people were divided into the persecuted and those who persecuted them. That wile beast, which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been...

A common strand appeared to unite these conflicts, and that was the advancement of a small coterie’s concept of American interests in the guise of the fight against terrorism, which was defined to refer only...

I can’t say for certain he was a war criminal, but I’d be willing to bet a year’s salary he was. A horrible person, it’s great to get him off the streets.

If the investigation implicates Syria, are we going to wage war on it? And if it acquits it, are we going to invite Syria back here again?

You do not mean there is danger of peace?”, cried Jack.

When you feel weak in spirit, think about the agreements you made with yourself about how to live an honourable life. We all have them, but unfortunately the contracts are often written in invisible ink...

a declaration of war against Saudi Arabia.

Some historians subsequently said that the twentieth century actually started in 1914, when war broke out, because it was first war in history in which so many countries took part, in which so many people...

If you don’t want a man unhappy politically, don’t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing...

To a happy war!’ laughter echoed with all the insane glee of an army of psychopaths.

Maybe the ultimate wound is the one that makes you miss the war you got it in.

He read reports, examined evidence, and poured more reports up the chain than the Pentagon could read. Nothing short of a human sieve. But in the end he was just one small piece on this...

John Smith: Mankind doesn’t need warfare and bloodshed to prove itself. Everyday life can provide honour and valour. Let’s hope that from now on this country can find its heroes in smaller places. In the...

In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: “In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I’m treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, ‘Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?’No,'”...

It was a part he felt himself feeling his way into, and the longer it went on, the more the men around him confirmed him in his role. It was as if they were willing...

He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.

War is obsolete

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

The only animal capable of giving man a fair fight is man. Actually, among ourselves, we fight unfairest of all, and the more we practice, the nastier we get.

The past, which as always did not know the future, acted in ways that ask tobe imagined before they are condemned. Or even simplified.

Without war there are no heroes.””What harm would that be?””Oh, Lavinia, what a woman’s question that is.

What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?

I’ve learned that from a war ignited by revenge, nothing can be born, but sorrow. – Aladdin

President Yeltsin is pushing the nation to a civil war.

From the woods that surrounded the burgh came a mass of men. Some rode, others ran. All carried weapons, mainly axes or spears. A few wore mail shirts and cloaks, but most just leather aketons....

This incomprehensible war would take from him even the humanity to find it incomprehensible.

Escapers were the cream of the crop.

On the basis of this information, it would be possible to argue that if everybody spoke English (or Chinese or Esperanto for that matter) everybody would be at war even more often.

democracy” synonymous with a republican form of government?

Peace shouldn’t be an option, it must be the objective, peace shouldn’t be a possibility, it must be the purpose.

Let me have war, say I: it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it’s spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy; mulled, deaf, sleepy, insensible; a getter...