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But if the two countries or governments are at war, the men of science are not. That would, indeed be a civil war of the worst description: we should rather, through the instrumentality of the...

The simple and terrifying reality, forbidden from discussion in America, was that despite spending $600 billion a year on the military, despite having the best fighting force the world had ever known, they were getting...

A very, in a sense, terrifying aspect of our society, and other societies, is the equanimity and the detachment with which sane, reasonable, sensible people can observe [war]. I think that’s more terrifying than the...

That Shay was in possesion of hand grenades was a comforting thought showed what kind of night this had become.

Weaponry is a fear-raising idea.

Displaced Person’s SongIf you see a train this evening,Far away, against the sky,Lie down in your woolen blanket,Sleep and let the train go by.Trains have called us, every midnight,From a thousand miles away,Trains that pass...

Invisible violence in Pakistan, violence against brown people, ongoing violence in Iraq — that’s got to be quantified in the same way as the cinematic glamorous violence that happens in recognisable cities.

She consoled herself with the thought that the pictures were graphic enough to shake people up, stop them being complacent about what was happening, and if that meant the war would end sooner, those two...

Be safe, she whispered. Then she closed her eyes and said in a low, broken monotone, “I love you.KailaniSiobhan Fallon

There is a very simple relationship between increased socioeconomic rifts in the society and increased violence, criminality, war, increased lack of trust between people, health problems and social exclusion – but it seems to be...

Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes; old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age; neither creed nor color nor place of origin is relevant to the realities of...

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.

one may know how to gain victory, and know not how to use it

The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front.

The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which...

Ciente de tuas capacidades e limitações, não inicies nenhuma empreitada que não possas levar a cabo.

first lay plans which will ensure victory, and then lead your army to battle; if you will not begin with stratagem but rely on brute strength alone, victory will no longer be assured

There is one fairly good reason for fighting – and that is, if the other man starts it. You see, wars are a great wickedness, perhaps the greatest wickedness of a wicked species. They are...

Before you leave here, Sir, you’re going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.

Well, I myself am a 100% atheist. And I am increasingly worried that the Israeli-Palestinian struggle, which dominates our entire life, is assuming a more and more religious character.

To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not. It...

Do the people in this country approve of this war?” […].”Approve? You don’t think we’d lie down and let the damned Thuvians walk all over us? Our status as a world power is at stake!””But...

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

A few names were known in full, some in part, some not at all. No one cared. Except in clearly unreasonable cases, a soldier was generally called by the name he preferred, or by what...

One cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

…I knew in the end the guilt of one side did not prove the innocence of the other.

His knowledge of war has fed a passion for peace.

As long as the peace-makers are armed with assault rifles, it’s highly unlikely we’ll ever have peace.

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant,...

Ole Miss is always a war. Both teams are going to battle and be physical. I’ve quit watching all their road games. I watch tapes only when they are home because they play at a...

Pigs are horses. Girls are boys. War is peace.

The time approachesThat will with due decision make us knowWhat we shall say we have and what we owe.Thoughts speculative their unsure hopes relate,But certain issue strokes must arbitrate;Towards which, advance the war.They exit marching.

Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth’s foundations fled,Followed their mercenary callingAnd took their wages and are dead. Their shoulders held the sky suspended;They...

Matar al enemigo, aunque su muerte ya no tenga sentido… Así es la guerra. El odio genera odio hasta que no resta más para destruir.

Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept it, I was being offered a second history.

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes

They say it is a wide road that leads to war and only a narrow path that leads home again.

The use of rape and enslavement as weapons of war MUST END!

Love is winning the war without starting the war. (L’amour, c’est gagner la guerre – Sans commencer la guerre)

The biggest threats to human survival today are not wars or conflict, it is modern business.

Nuclear deterrents on both sides have helped avert a war,

He had also learned that there is no use murdering people; there are always so many left, and if you tried to murder them all you would never get anything else done.

You can’t rewind war. It spools on, and on, and on, looping and jumping, distorted and cracked with age, and the stories contract until only the nuggets of hatred remain and no one can even...

He’d imagined peacetime would bring him a sense of belonging. During the war it kept him going, that thought of peace. He’d believed in it like a season he knew it would arrive one day

What sparks wars? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. The threat of violence, the fear of violence, or actual violence, is the instrument of this dreadful will. You can see the will...

I remember a story I read once, a soldier, was it at Shiloh? He was talking to me but not with his whole attention. Gettysburg? a soldier so mad with shock that he started burying...

Unfortunately for him he looked more like an innocent man on America’s terror watch-list rather than a gallant Viking possessing all the benefits of modernity. More like a villain in a Western fairy tale with...

If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly in a large part of mankind; indeed, this seems actually to be a...

All around them were the bodies of dead Chinese soldiers. They lined the verges of the roads and floated in the canals, jammed together around the pillars of the bridges. In the trenches between the...