We’re going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us what we’re doing, you can say, We’re remembering. That’s...

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war...

I told her that saying goodbye didn’t matter, not a bit. What mattered were all the days you were together before that, all the things you remembered.

Pthis violence, as a process, is perpetuated from generation to generation of oppressors, who become its heirs and are shaped by it.

It was not well to drive men into final corners; at those moments they could all develop teeth and claws.

You meet me after school right here”, I said.”Why?” he asked.I couldn’t believe he was so stupid.”Because we’re going to finish this fight.””You’re crazy,” Roger said.He got to his feet and walked away. His gang...

Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.

Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted.

When your army has crossed the border, you should burn your boats and bridges, in order to make it clear to everybody that you have no hankering after home.

If, on the other hand, in the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate ourselves from misfortune.

Unreal City, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,I had not thought death had undone so many.Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled,And each man fixed his eyes...

Who in the universe halts when the enemy tells them to?

Love and war, it seemed, worked by the same rules. One had to hurry, before the fires flared out.

It’s like we have the bones of animals and the hearts of angels.

A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. If a story...

When asked how World War III would be fought, Einstein replied that he didn’t know. But he knew how World War IV would be fought: With sticks and stones!

There is a circle of humanity, he told me, and I can feel its warmth. But I am forever outside.

Of course he was afraid of war. Only fools are not. Anaxantis was no fool. He was fully prepared to fight, but only as a last resort.

For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.

As for the military advantage of such a bombardment, I simply cannot grasp it. I have seen housewives disemboweled, children mutilated; I have seen the old itinerant market crone sponge from her treasure the brains...

There Will Come Soft Rains There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;And frogs in the pool singing at night,And wild plum-trees in tremulous white;Robins will...

As politicians weigh courses of action against their political agendas the death toll weighs heavy on the conscience of the world. The once vibrant Syrian streets are now haunted by the souls of the innocent...

Sofya now understood the difference between life and existence: her life had come to an end, but her existence could drag on indefinitely. And however wretched and miserable this existence was, the thought of violent...

I don’t believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have...

But it’s fair to say that the war’s [WWI] dialectic forced those who were more or less alive to go to their death, and gave those who were more or less dead the right to...

War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.

I mean, I don’t know much about the Civil War, but whenever I think of that time—I mean, ever since Gone With the Wind I’ve had these fantasies about those generals, those gorgeous young Southern...

Ah, my dear friend, cheer up… After all, we have peace! And because there is peace, the occupiers can’t behave so abominably anymore. All right, we’re not free. But we are used to that, Mr....

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