Yea, she hath passed hereby, and blessed the sheaves,And the great garths, and stacks, and quiet farms,And all the tawny, and the crimson leaves.Yea, she hath passed with poppies in her arms,Under the star of...

Due eserciti che si combattono, sono come un sol grande esercito che si suicida.

This morning there s first a predictable story about Darfur; an expert on African affairs notes that seven thousand African Union troops patrolling a region the size of France have been ineffectual in preventing continued...

Soldiers manage by dividing themselves. They’re one man in the killing, another at home, and the man that dandles his bairn on his knee has nothing to do wi’ the man who crushed his enemy’s...

Some people would rather that you die for their beliefs than that they re-examine those beliefs.

Question for your life: If you could change War’s name, do you think you’d change its nature?

[Football] has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.

Was there ever a war where only one side bled?

Some allies are more dangerous than enemies.

…the experience of battle forever divides those who talk of nothing else but its prospect from those who talk of everything else but its memory.

The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.

This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try...

Do you really not know of the magnificence of war? Or how worthless peace is? Peace only leads mankind to depravity! What is so good about it?! It is only for war that a human...

No era inquietud propiamente dicha, sino una extraña tristeza que tenía poco de humano, porque no comportaba ni valentía ni esperanza. Así es como los animales esperan la muerte. Así es como el pez atrapado...

All those who prefer peace to power, and happiness to glory should thank the colonized people for their civilizing mission. By liberating themselves, they made Europeans more modest, less racist, and more human. Let us...

Man with a crossbow in the proper position at the proper time’s worth a corps of heavy artillery half an hour late and ten miles down the road from where it should be.

The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime is that war is chaos, and the Americans practice chaos on a daily basis.

World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.

Thar is two things that every national crisis is bound to show up: first, a lot o’ dum fools in command; second, lot o great commanders in the ranks. An’ fortunately before the crisis is...

We All Bleed RedWe have a confirmed threat against the homeland and I for one am grateful for the Americans sitting in the Army conference room in Fort Stewart, Georgia. The display cubes and screens...

The supernatural Christ of the New Testament, the god of orthodox Christianity, is dead. But priestcraft lives and conjures up the ghost of this dead god to frighten and enslave the masses of mankind. The...

We have to accept that any action we take might promote an equal and opposite reaction that we do not want. We have to realize that even the most noble actions or most obviously correct...

Mud and water and the stumps of trees. In every direction that was all there was. Bodies fell, but the trees died standing up.

He concluded that governments were like wars: the reasons and the forces might change, but it was still the same dying over the same soil.

He was in a fairy kingdom where everything was possible.He looked up at the sky. And the sky was a fairy realm like the earth. It was clearing, and over the tops of the trees...

We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take...

In moments Akiva was up in the ether, scarcely feeling the sting of ice crystals in the thin air. He let his glamour fall away, and his wings were like sheets of fire sweeping the...

It’s always fallen to women to forge the peace between all these hot-blooded men, always ready to go to war at the slightest provocation….Why do men behave the way they do, warring?””What do you think?”...

In the times of barbaric wars; Love is the most beautiful sacrifice of the world.

If you asked why the post had not come, or why the boat did not sail for England, or why your coffee was cold, or why your boots were not cleaned, or why your window...

3A.02 WARExpenses for war equipment,Training and peoples recruitment,Be at the cost of hunger and pride,Humanity be charred in this ride.[196]- 3A

The street is no longer measured by meters but by corpses … Stalingrad is no longer a town. By day it is an enormous cloud of burning, blinding smoke; it is a vast furnace lit...

But, nevertheless, the generation that carried on the war has been set apart by its experience. Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us...

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?

War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too. The things they saw, the things they did. Sometimes they just wanted to forget.

Peace is not an easy prospect–it requires greater bravery than does conflict.

All family stories are important, just as all people are important, and they deserve to be passed along.

On the warm stone walls, climbing roses were just coming into bloom and great twisted branches of honeysuckle and clematis wrestled each other as they tumbled up and over the top of the wall. Against...

This is ridiculous. This war is not the same, … It’s not a war. It’s an invasion on our part, what we did to those innocent citizens in Iraq.

The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.

The Army’s new pitch was simple. Good pay, good benefits, a manageable amount of adventure… but don’t worry, we’re not looking to pick fights these days. For a country that had paid so dear a...

Great men are allowed to spill the blood of others.

– all that you left behind when you signed up. when you dropped out of that world, went out on the plains with the thousands of other eager, nervous, frightened young men to push the...

My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state, for two reasons. For one thing, because it happens to be the larger component of international violence. But also for...

On both sides in 1915 there would be more dead on any single day than yards gained in the entire year. And there would be nearly four more years of attrition–not to determine who was...

What is so often said about the solders of the 20th century is that they fought to make us free. Which is a wonderful sentiment and one witch should evoke tremendous gratitude if in fact...

Peace without shield and weapon is a no man’s land.Shield and weapon without war won’t be thoroughly tested.

The worst kind of tyrant is one that is righteously wrong

One example of an uniquely Sethian approach towards initiation is for the initiate to regard his or her own life with the same urgency and need experienced as in a war zone in which every...

A life well-lived in the present is all but impossible when you are tethered to your past.