There is an old Arab Bedouin saying: I, against my brothers. I and my brothers against my cousins. I and my brothers and my cousins against the world. That is jungle law. It is the...

Every war has it’s turning points, and every person too.

Every war and conflict that the United States enters has its own ROE [rules of engagement]. Contrary to what most people think, the U.S. military does not have a complete license to kill, even in...

The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.

When civilians are not asked to pay any price, it’s easy to be at war – not just to intervene in a foreign land in the first place, but to keep on fighting there. The...

Religion, with its metaphysical error of absolute guilt, dominated the broadest, the cosmic realm. From there, it infiltrated the subordinate realms of biological, social and moral existence with its errors of the absolute and inherited...

If human beings weren’t ‘dumbable’ enough to be made soldiers, war would be nothing but an exchange of swear words between a handful of individuals.

War is the remedy for peace.

Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.

stick your nose in other people’s business” Is so compulsive and epidemic to human society.

The most important thing I gained from my travels was the knowledge that one could achieve anything with determination and an ounce of luck.

Dear, Missus, Mister – I beg you never to give thoughts to war, in no way, not to work for it, not by writing nor by reading about it nor by looking at the pictures...

There is something almost insane about countries without common borders going to war, something unnatural.

Cope? Adapt? Uh, no. These are military kids. They roll with it. I once asked a new student, ‘See any familiar faces?’ She pointed out various kids and replied, ‘Seattle, Tampa, Okinawa, New Jersey.’ For...

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in foreign lands there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them,...

If freedom is free and none need worry, then what blood drops for thee?

[From a May 1, 2004 article entitled “Still Up to Mischief” from The Guardian reporting on and quoting Altman]Still, it’s worth noting that by the age of 20 this whistle- blower had resisted two of...

Ceres wanted a united front in the plant war.””The plant war,” Percy said. “You’re going to arm all the little grapes with tiny assault rifles?

After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right,...

Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.

If there is disturbance in the camp, the general’s authority is weak. 

The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming.

Do they see the lethal insanity of a race to the brink of oblivion, and then over the edge? Apparently not. If they did, surely they wouldn’t be racing to begin with. Or is it...

When they think about Africa, they think about War, Poverty, Hunger and Diseases.

No matter how long you behest, to the fruit draped tree. It will do you no best, until a shingle you free.

There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.

It’s a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn’t felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid. When you’re afraid, really...

represented the generation of young Scots who fought in the First World War, and endured unimaginable horrors.

Wars of the foolish are destructive, wars of the wise bring transformation.

Yes, lots have gone in already, … If there’s civil war, lots more will go.

War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace.

Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.)

Abuse of the military metaphor may be inevitable in a capitalist society, a society that increasingly restricts the scope and credibility of appeals to ethical principle, in which it is thought foolish not to subject...

People whose lives were determined for them by a group of politicians whose severing, dissecting and reattaching of their lands has turned their world into a monster that not even its creator can control.

As a ground-combat force approaches the deadly zone and moves within range of the enemy’s rifles, mortars, and machine guns, the dynamics of war become more art than science. Intangibles such as training, confidence, leadership,...

This is the beginning of the end (talking about the war)… Everyone was saying… But the British Prime Minister said, “This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But...

Phantoms of thought and memory thinned and fled.

How much energy they put into harming each other. How little into saving.

Akasha, for two thousand years I have watched,’ he said. ‘Call me the Roman in the Arena if you will and tell me tales of the ages that went before. When I knelt at your...

A weapon does not decide whether or not to kill. A weapon is a manifestation of a decision that has already been made.

It might be added, too, that it takes something more than preponderance of numbers to win a battle….

I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE… AND BEG EVERYONE… TO HELP RESCUE ALL IMPRISONED WOMEN.

Those darling byegone times, Mr Carker,’ said Cleopatra, ‘with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of torture, and their romantic vengeances, and their picturesque assaults and sieges, and everything...

Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate.

Fighting makes us feel alive, until it kills us. If it doesn’t kill us, the pain of sitting alone with ourselves, quietly, under constant assault by our own thoughts and memories of war can easily...

Though all the guns be silenced,each soldier in his home,There is no peace till Love comes,till the meek may safely roam.

I’m right; you’re wrong.

Inman’s only thought looking on the enemy was, “Go home.

The threat of war hung on the air like a thick fog and it blinded him until he could see nothing beyond the haze. Even the stars grew faint.