Was it the wicked leaders who led innocent populations to slaughter, or was it wicked populations who chose leaders after their own hears? On the face of it, it seemed unlikely that one Leader could...

Axsem would say nothing more to any of them. No sooner had Fallon released him than he fled deep into the trees, staff in hand, with Hailos following after. Through the morning air, they heard...

Love and respect are above any law

All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing anything to control the desires and passions of men that, on the contrary,...

I have been brought up in a world dominated by honor. I have known neither crime, poverty, nor betrayal, and here I taste hatred for the first time: it is sublime, like a thirst for...

Militarism has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations. The single art of war makes progress at the expense of all the arts of peace.

I suppose if we gain anything from this unsought experience it will be an appreciation for honesty- frankness on the part of our politicians, our friends, our loves, ourselves. No more liars in public places....

We tell the dead to rest in peace, when we should worry about the living to live in peace.

Competing interests … Katrina, the war … everything is competing.

I’m not the kind of faggot who wants to put a rainbow sticker on a machine gun.

Until they feel what we feel, they will never fully understand the own hell they caused.

It would be hard to argue that an issue like this supersedes issues like the war on terror and the economy.

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;Or close the wall up with our English dead!In peace there’s nothing so becomes a manAs modest stillness and humility:But when the blast of war blows in...

It’s too bad war gets all the attention; it’s too bad the plant is easier to see than the root.

But man, proud man,Dress’d in a little brief authority,Most ignorant of what he’s most assur’d—His glassy essence—like an angry apePlays such fantastic tricks before high heavenAs makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens,Would all...

Mechanized warfare still left room for human qualities to play an important part in the issue. ‘Automatic warfare’ cancels them out, except in a passive form. Archidamus is at last being justified. Courage, skill and...

Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.

I learned to play the instruments of war,” he said, “and paint in blood.

In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on...

My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to be denied the right to sit in a small room...

WHILE THE WORLD’S ASLEEP, ANGELS REFUSE TO SLEEP!

War begins like a pretty girlwith whom every man wants to flirtand ends like an ugly old womanwhose visitors suffer and weep- Samuel ha-Nagid

There is no conscience in a real war.

We promised that things would get better, but things were getting worse and worse, … Cold War.

It is a myth that rape is an inevitable part of conflict . . . There is nothing inevitable about it. It is a weapon of war aimed at civilians. It has nothing to do...

We love WWII because the cause was so obviously just, because you can’t be a good person and say you wouldn’t fight against an evil like that. It was so black and white on our...

The Civilized… murder their children by producing too many of them without being able to provide for their well-being. Morality or theories of false virtue stimulate them to manufacture cannon fodder, anthills of conscripts who...

It was sometimes feebly argued, as the political and military war against this enemy ran into difficulties, that it was ‘a war without end.’ I never saw the point of this plaintive objection. The war...

I missed the war and the freedom that came with it. When you are that close to death, you feel free. Every breath you take could be your last. So you inhale and savor each...

If any honor existed in war, it was in fighting to protect others from harm

It is love and reason,’ I said,’fleeing from all the madness of war.

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

He had volunteered early, rather than waiting to be conscripted, for he felt a duty and an obligation to serve, and believed that … being willing to fight for his country and the liberty it...

This ploughman dead in battle slept out of doorsMany a frozen night, and merrilyAnswered staid drinkers, good bedmen, and all bores:”At Mrs Greenland’s Hawthorn Bush,” said he,”I slept.” None knew which bush. Above the town,Beyond...

The emphasis at this point is not to go to war against the RUF,

ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred with out a head

to try and fix the world. To try and save anyone from their ration of misery.”We have always loved war. We are born knowing that war is why we’re here. And we love disease. Cancer....

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.