A bullet leaves evidence that a mortar doesn’t.

War created the conditions for great advances in technology…without war men would not traverse oceans in hours, travel in space, or microwave popcorn.

In recent years, academics, policy-makers, and experts have raised the question of the applicability of peacetime environmental law in times of armed conflict.

Love hadn’t existed in this world. Only hate, deceit and lies, but by letting him in I’d let all of that crumble.By letting me in he’d done the same, and now we were engaged in...

Through the dense din, I say, we heard him shout”I see your lights!” But ours had long died out.

Might without right makes blight

Almost everything about Afghanistan was troubling Mullen. As Obama was giving intense focus on the war, Mullen was feeling more personal responsibility. Afghanistan had been marked by ‘incredible neglect,’ he told some of his officers....

When President Bush selected John Roberts, he disarmed his critics. They went into this war disarmed, … That’s why I would say that if he found someone of the highest caliber (for the next vacancy),...

It’s a good thing war is so terrible or else we’d get to liking it too much.

Maybe it’s time to stop being a soldier and go home to be a father. And a husband for Deanna. I’m not sure how.

There I was out in the barn playing midwife to a pregnant mare. I remember sitting there, spinning yarn in the light of a little oil lamp, a city girl who knew nothing about farming,...

Kuna vita za aina mbili zinazopiganwa hapa duniani: vita ya maisha na vita ya dhambi. Unaweza kushinda vita ya maisha (maisha ya raha) lakini ukashindwa vita ya dhambi (maisha ya laana). Kushinda vita ya dhambi...

The picture in the stock markets is still very murky. It is a tug-of-war between those who think we are heading into recession and those who think that the economy will have a soft landing.

What is left of us? … No countries, no cultures, no wars but still no peace. What’s at our core, then? What’s still squirming in our bones when everything else is stripped?

Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned…Everything is war. Me say war.That until the’re no longer 1st class and 2nd class citizens of any...

The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.

I am an atheist, but as far as blowing up the world in a nuclear war goes, I tell them not to worry.

..But for long years we healers have only sought to patch the rents made by the men of swords. Though we should still have enough to do without them: the world is full enough of...

There’s nothing funny about war. Well, aside from this joke Orafoura told me: What did WWI say to WWII? I wish I could tell you the punch line, but the restaurant was so noisy that...

It’s just a war that is systematic, that is daily, that is incremental, that is indeed debilitating, that is destroying the very fabric of Palestinian reality and infrastructure,

I cannot bring myself to judge those who are defending their lands against an immoral violent foreign invader. The fact that the immoral violent foreign invader happens to be the U.S. government does not alter...

First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.

People like to say, ‘War is hell.’ Well, that saying’s true. I’ve seen it. But the saying’s also bullshit, because it ignores a truth that’s bigger – life is hell. Life is hell, Honey, and...

It’s hard to hear over the racket of gunfire. Politicians want to talk about war, but the people want to talk about peace.

You don’t stockpile guns because ‘you never know’. You stockpile guns because you do know. And while you may be wrong, your shitload of guns says you no longer welcome debate on the subject.

I think you’re in a tug of war between those that are willing to bet on an economic recovery and those that think things have come too far too fast and are waiting to see...

Since the advent of war many things have happened to him that he could not possibly have imagined. He wonders if this is one of the subliminal reasons men wage war. To increase the daily...

They bright whiten all this sepulchre with powdered chloride of lime. It’s a perfectly sanitary war.

I think a cool band name would be War Dwarf. Of course, I’m entirely too tall and peaceful to be a member. Not to mention nonmusical.

I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one...

Through the years our business has been killing;-it was our first calling in life. Our knowledge of lif eis limited to death.

Of course a lot of guys were ashamed. Somebody said let’s go out and fight for liberty and so they went out and got killed without ever once thinking of liberty. And what kind of...

Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war’s insistence everyone move on.

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

Why of course the people don’t want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to...

The defenders retreated, but in good order. A musket flamed and a ball shattered a marine’s collar bone, spinning him around. The soldiers screamed terrible battle-cries as they began their grim job of clearing the...

I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it. 

Stopping a war; that is, stopping actual military combat, is not stopping a war in all its factors. During continuous hard strain a human mind can hold up; and it is truly amazing how much...

They would never forget the war. The world wouldn’t let them, and neither would history.

He couldn’t understand how he was awarded medals and honors for clubbing and bayoneting people, and be called a barbarian for killing seals.

There’s so many different worlds, so many different suns. And we have just one world, but we live in different ones.

The struggle against injustice is just another kind of injustice.

[N]icht durch Reden und Majoritätsbeschlüsse werden die großen Fragen der Zeit entschiedenen […] sondern durch Eisen und Blut.

If you were born in a country or at a time not only when nobody comes to kill your wife and your children, but also nobody comes to ask you to kill the wives and...

There are many ways of fighting. Many a man or woman has waged a good war for truth, honor, and freedom, who did not shed blood in the process. Beware of those who would use...

I wish I’d known those words on the day I watched those German troops land, plane-load after plane-load of them—and come off ships down in the harbor! All I could think of was damn them,...

Melodramas of moral courage provide satisfaction through the comforting fantasy that our own character would hold steady under the most extreme pressure of dreadful events. [But we must face] the painful awareness that in all...

Let the enemy fall by their swords. Words not worth reading die their own death. But our Words will be Told!

Fire’s tears were real now, and there was no helping them, for there was no time. Everything was moving too fast. She crossed the room to him, put her arms around him, clung to him,...

Not every loss was confirmed by an officer at the door. Nor a telegram with the power to sink a fleet. Loss, often the worst kind, also arrived through the deafening quiet of an absence.