We are tiny flames, Helikaon, and we flicker alone in the great dark for no more than a heartbeat. When we strive for wealth, glory and fame, it is meaningless. The nations we fight for...

In war, you win or lose, live or die-and the difference is just an eyelash.

I don’t do what I’m doing to fight terror. … I do it because I care about kids. Fighting terror is maybe seventh or eighth on my list of priorities. But working over there, I’ve...

How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

…the world was trying to change its old face and show its underbelly of earth and roots.

If science took my IQ and spread it evenly among the world’s population, like mental mayonnaise, we’d have more art, less war, and higher cholesterol.

The Spaniards are good at many things, but not at making war. All foreigners are alike appalled by their inefficiency, above all their maddening unpunctuality. The one word that no foreigner can avoid learning is...

The part of her that should have been disgusted was numb.

Terrible times breed terrible things, my lord.

The president has listened to some people, the so-called Vulcans in the White House, the ideologues. But you know, unlike the Vulcans of Star Trek who made the decisions based on logic and fact, these...

The movies, I thought, have got the soundtrack to war all wrong. War isn’t rock ‘n’ roll. It’s got nothing to do with Jimi Hendrix or Richard Wagner. War is nursery rhymes and early Madonna...

We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land. All the same, we are not often sad.

Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.

Over here not one person ever mentioned the war.

…the wrath of God pales beside that of man.

Major Major never sees anyone in his office while he’s in his office.

Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won’t be because of great statesmen or churches or organisations like this one. It’ll be because people have changed. They’ll be like you, Puffin. More...

Wars come and go; politics endure.

The priest was good but dull. The officers were not good but dull. The King was good but dull. The wine was bad but not dull.

Live for something rather than die for nothing.

Sverige har inte haft krig på egen mark sedan sextonhundratalet och hur ofta tänkte jag inte den tanken att någon borde invadera Sverige, bomba husen, plundra hela landet, skjuta männen, våldta kvinnorna, och sedan låta...

They have a war chest in a sense.

Wars are indeed fought by children, by young people who have little to say in where they are sent to die.

Sports is to war as pornography is to sex.

And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.

We were not destined to survive. The fact is, we were not destined at all. The war would take what it could get.

The only thing more dangerous than your enemy knowing how powerful you are, is your enemy not knowing how powerful you are

The end of superpower patronage to client movements worldwide created a power vacuum whose inevitable results included the spread of violence and the emergence of disparate groups, ostensibly fighting in the name of ideology, religion...

I’ve been thinking of something your father said – that the true measure of love is what one is willing to give up for it. He was talking about freedom – fighting for liberty. But...

Shall I tell you why young men love war? . . . In peace, there are a hundred questions with a thousand answers! In war, there is only one question with one right answer. ....

War is not a means but an end. It makes violence respectable and makes sadists look like heroes.

The idea is to deepen the discussion about the human cost of the war and alternatives to it.

Precarity designates that politically induced condition in which certain populations suffer from failing social and economic networks of support and become differentially exposed to injury, violence, and death.

He looked around at that one room, and the few things in it. He’d always thought retiring would be going back to his life after some nightmare pause. Some stretch of exile in the land...

American planes full of holes and wounded men and corpses took off backwards from an airfield in England. Over France a few German fighter planes flew at them backwards sucked bullets and shell fragments from...

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

Lay downYour tired & weary head my friend.We have wept too longNight is fallingAnd you we are only sleepingWe have come to this journey’s endIt’s time for us to goTo meet our friendsWho beckon usTo...

There’s never been a true war that wasn’t fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely...

The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed–thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes–because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself–and all for a few hundred yards...

War is what happens when language fails.

Our clerics neither evangelize like the apostles, nor go to war like the secular lords, nor toil like laborers

Either greed belongs in a war zone, or it doesn’t. You can’t unleash it in the name of sparking an economic boom and then be shocked when Halliburton overcharges for everything from towels to gas,...

It’s possible I’ve been through too much, lost too much. War damages different people in different ways; Hector taught me that. King Alejandro became spineless and incapable. His father before him was rash and unpredictable,...

Hitler and his regime murdered six million Jews and launched a world war that caused more than 40 million deaths. How can that be compared to current U.S. government policy?

Potential enemies make the best friends and lovers. Many a blessed union begins in adversity.

That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true…

If no war in heaven, then defeat ain’t misery.

The fact is, Bush’s war policy has failed. It’s failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?

old” normal at least. You have to invent the new normal.I knew that I needed to take an honest appraisal of my life. Were my problems really bigger than me? Of course not. That’s why...

Some people have a heart to do evil and they don’t care if you’re Muslim or Christian.