But don’t they say that all is fair in love and war? I heard that somewhere.””‘They?’ Who are ‘they?'””I don’t know. Just people.””That’s what the victorious claim, not the defeated; the powerful, not the powerless....

There are betrayals in war that are childlike compared with our human betrayals during peace. The new lovers enter the habits of the other. Things are smashed, revealed in a new light. This is done...

Mmm,” said Ares, without turning his head. “This war on terror isn’t producing enough casualties. Bringing in Iran is the obvious choice, but I don’t think they’ve got enough fire power yet. I wonder if...

Give me liberty or give me death.’ A human named Patrick Henry said that. I wonder if the Yeerks knew before they came to conquer Earth that humans said things like that. I wonder if...

War is sweet to those who have never fought.

Honor LostAmbulant sunshine piercedthe soot covered glass ~the feeble man wandered byin this ritual morning pass …

Because of the times, and because the child has been living in a world filled with every kind of thrill and adventure, it is safe to assume that he is not interested in the same...

A minister stands for Father Peace, but a good one is no stranger to Mother War.

It was a war of reason against barbarism, supposedly, with the issues at stake on such a high plane that most of our feverish fighters had no idea why they were fighting—other than that the...

The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we...

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.

I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.

In 1944-1945, Dr Ancel Keys, a specialist in nutrition and the inventor of the K-ration, led a carefully controlled yearlong study of starvation at the University of Minnesota Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene. It was hoped...

poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you

I took the thin magazine from the pouch in front of me and began to thumb through it. I felt self-conscious, as if I shouldn’t be there. My mind began to wander, as I knew...

When you hear somebody justifying a war by citing the Almighty, I get a little worried, frankly.

You are well aware that it is not numbers or strength that bring the victories in war. No, it is when one side goes against the enemy with the gods’ gift of a stronger morale...

This war ends, then so do the taxpayer-funded contracts, the drumbeats in the media, the nice Combatant faces, and the patriotic cause to lull the civilians and shame the dissenters. The other thing that comes...

Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will.

There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general:(1) Recklessness, which leads to destruction;(2) cowardice, which leads to capture;(3) a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults;(4) a delicacy of honor which is...

Is killing a known terrorist wrong? I ask this, did the terrorist allow any of his victims quarter? No, then allow him no quarter, and hoist the black flag.

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

I think we’re seriously screwed when the men with guns decided to help the bad guys.

What the war did to dreamers.

I have to get out of this room as soon as possible, or my own thoughts will wage war against me.

Do you still think Mianaai controls the Radchaai through brainwashing or threats of execution? Those are there, they exist, yes, but most Radchaai, like people most places I have been, do what they’re supposed to...

Have you ever heard of the theory that it is better for one man to die than an entire nation to suffer? Do you believe that to be true? Is it ever okay to take...

A magnificent fireworks began: magnesium flares blindingly white, yellow, and then red, like dying stars; straight bright red streaks of machine-gun fire; elegant and clear lines of bullets traced like fugitive neon light; and scarlet,...

When he told me that he would fight forever, I knew that he would have to be defeated.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

During the war some of the country’s sharpest minds had looked as if they had been dragged through a hedge backwards.

The only difference between life here and on the battlefield was there we believed that the outcome of the war would be different, and so fought to that end. Here we were reminded of our...

When you think about new-born babies being killed in our own lifetime,’ he said, ‘all the efforts of culture seem worthless. What have people learned from all our Goethes and Bachs? To kill babies?

The pinnacle of human consciousness must be the rejection of unhealthy competition, war and violence.

You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you’ll never know The hell where youth and laughter go.” “The War Poems

You’re really going to do it, aren’t you? You’re really going to go back to war?” Gregor said. He could feel something boiling up inside of him. “So, we’ll just forget about what happened. The...

You’re fighting this war in the worst way possible.” “I don’t know how to fight it, Dad.””You should ask for help,” he said.”I don’t know how to do that, either.