To a man, professional soldiers despised terrorists, and each would dream about getting them in an even-up-battle; the idea of the Field of Honor had never died for the real professionals. It was the place...

Just above our terror, the stars painted this storyin perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too oftenabused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.

One man can not wage a war alone. Therefore if humanity stops agreeing to go to war; there will be only peace.

High School students in America debate why President Roosevelt didn’t bomb the rail lines to Hitler’s camps. Their children may ask, a generation from now, why the West stared at far clearer satellite images of...

You learn, finally, that you’ll die, and so you try to hang on to your own life, that gentle, naive kid you used to be, but then after a while the sentiment takes over, and...

As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

In the world of so-called villains, what we need is not another hero. What we need is to stop the influx of people who dress themselves as menaces and proceed to harm others.

So fair a victor, how can I help but be conquered.

Lovers and warriors are not bound by the rules of fair play.

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?

Feed peace not fear, make spoon not war.

Knowing when to fight is just as important as knowing how.

The history of ancient Greece showed that, in a democracy, emotion dominates reason to a greater extent than in any other political system, thus giving freer rein to the passions which sweep a state into...

So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one’s fatherland is to wish evil to one’s neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country...

The best of your life could be the rest of your life, if you decide it will be so.

It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone’s fault. If it was us, what did...

as long as there arehuman beings aboutthere is never going to beany peacefor any individualupon this earth (oranywhere elsethey mightescape to).all you can dois maybe grabten lucky minuteshereor maybe an hourthere.somethingis working toward youright now,...

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Go forth and light the lights of war

Sometimes violence is necessary to prevent even more violence,” I concluded, almost as if it were an epiphany.

Magistrate: What do you propose to do then, pray?Lysistrata: You ask me that! Why, we propose to administer the treasury ourselvesMagistrate: You do?Lysistrata: What is there in that a surprise to you? Do we not...

War does not determine who is right – only who is left.

The ghosts will eat everything because the bellies of ghosts want the whole world, just to fill one tiny corner.

When the conflict deepens, none will have peace either.

Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.

Peace surfaced here. Hard to imagine a person finding peace through war, but no one finds peace in war—peace finds you. It crawls into your sleeping bag and helps you fall asleep, nudges your arm,...

From now on there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him.

This isn’t a war,” said the artilleryman. “It never was a war, any more than there’s war between man and ants.

After all, no one is stupid enough to prefer war to peace; in peace sons bury their fathers and in war fathers bury their sons.

His idleness was his refuge, and in this he was like many others in [occupied] France in that period; laziness became political.

The flowers left thick at nightfall in the woodThis Eastertide call into mind the men,Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, shouldHave gathered them and will do never again.

When the wounded were screaming, you dreamed of sharing a little house somewhere, of an ordinary life, of a family line, connection. All around him, men were walking silently with their thoughts, reforming their lives,...

Unlike old-fashioned Britain, where Tony Blair recruited Lord Levy to encourage his ‘Friends of Israel’ to donate their money to a party that was just about to launch a criminal war, in America Alan Greenspan...

Warriors are warriors not because of their strengh, but because of their ability strengh to good purpose

How many hopes and dreams are trapped within these bones? How many wonders lie never to be discovered? This is what war is. Desolation, despair and loss. There are no victors.

«Se anche ce ne fossero, […] sarebbe da veri criminali esaltare gli aspetti belli della guerra!»

Maybe he hadn’t thought the war through. It had seemed like simple fun when he had first pictured it, with a glorious beginning, a difficult but valor-filled middle, and a victorious end. He hadn’t accounted...

One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough.

She did not respond, only clung harder to my embrace, and I held her with all the afflictions of a man torn by love. What a miracle she was, what a truly exquisite paragon of...

To stop a battle, a politician would propose a war.

It is not enough to live together in peace, with one race on its knees.

Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.

I don’t think we’re so wary about war. We’re wary about being misled. We’re wary about costs of a war that didn’t have to be waged.

Whenever and wherever men have engaged in the mindless slaughter of animals (including other men), they have often attempted to justify their acts by attributing the most vicious or revolting qualities to those they would...

Once war becomes a clash of absolutes, there is no breathing room for mercy. Absolute truth is blind truth.

I lie down on many a station platform; I stand before many a soup kitchen; I squat on many a bench;–then at last the landscape becomes disturbing, mysterious, and familiar. It glides past the western...

planned to go to war all along.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we...

Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet?