How stand I, then,That have a father killed, a mother stained,Excitements of my reason and my blood,And let all sleep, while to my shame I seeThe imminent death of twenty thousand menThat for a fantasy...

A pacifist between wars is like a vegetarian between meals.

Frankly, our ancestors don’t seem much to brag about. I mean, look at the state they left us in, with the wars, the broken planet. Clearly, they didn’t care about what would happen to the...

Put a man on the brink of the abyss and – in the unlikely event that she doesn’t fall into it – he will become a mystic or a madman… Which is probably the same...

Are we entirely ready, sir?” said Lieutenant Hornett, with the special inflection that means “We are not entirely ready, sir.””We had better be. Glory awaits, gentlemen. In the words of General Tacticus, ‘let us take...

It’s a real tug of war in the yen.

ISIS BEHEADS CIVILIANS WHILE WORLD KEEPS FORGETTING WHAT VICTIMS’ SOULS R BEGGING:HUMANITY SAVE KOBANE

And there they ring the walls, the young, the lithe. The handsome hold the graves they won in Troy; the enemy earth rides over those who conquered.

These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment.

Somehow whether or not the war is winnable is beyond our scope, an irrelevant detail. We don’t do it to win anymore; we do it because it’s what we know how to do. Get ready...

No soldier ever really survives a war.

Jen pohleďte na ty ďábelské prostředky ničení. Vynalezli je docela dobráčtí gentlemani, rozumní a vážení občané, kteří jsou přesně takoví, jaké si je přejeme mít. A když to potom všechno vyletí do vzduchu a rozpoutá...

With war, most people are heartless and less weighed as a ton of nothing.

Some readers may have noticed an icy little missive from Noam Chomsky [“Letters,” December 3], repudiating the very idea that he and I had disagreed on the “roots” of September 11. I rush to agree....

I guess I was always looking for something. What it was, I didn’t know. I wanted help from the VA, but didn’t want to go back, didn’t want to be subjected to that second-rate treatment...

In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.

We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots ad executions. We kill every time we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame.

Things to do, places to be, people to kill.

It was becoming evident to many that while evil grows all by itself, good can be achieved only through hard struggle and maintained only through tireless effort, ..

The risks of not following through on the war on terror are so huge that we must make this down payment,

The first casualty when war comes is truth.

It’s a thin line between what we’re calling acceptable and not acceptable. As a leader, you’re supposed to know when not to cross it. But how do you know? Does the army teach us how...

It struck me that such analyses had it backward. It’s the American public for whom the Iraq War is often no more real than a video game. Five years into this war, I am not...

Make pizza, not war. No matter how you slice it, that’s wise.

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless.

It must be instilled in man that ‘peace’ is the best legacy we would leave behind for the generations to come, as we practice and follow the edicts of human rights.

…you never knows where a spark may drop and a fire begin to run.

Too much coffee has been spilled in the name of war. Let us love and savor every drop.

A story is a wondrous invention.

The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling. (Varys)

Bless God, he went as soldiers,His musket on his breast—Grant God, he charge the bravestOf all the martial blest!Please God, might I behold himIn epauletted white—I should not fear the foe then—I should not fear...

If you believe Might is Right, it follows that whoever cannot hold their ground does not deserve to keep it.

To say that the first casualty of war is truth is to miss the rather more important point that a principal weapon of war is lies.

We’re no longer young men. We’ve lost any desire to conquer the world. We are refugees. We are fleeing from ourselves. From our lives. We were eighteen years old, and we had just begun to...

I keep your photo in the pocket on the side without the gun. For balance.

Africa must remain on the path of democracy. But democracy MUST also remain about the PEOPLE, not about power

Think about itThis xenophobia has hurt me without anyone touching me, but by what I am seeing and the damages it’s causing to this country, business, celebrities and citizens.For I believe there is a conspiracy...

Humans have been doin’ awful things to each other throughout history. Humanity’s not as great as you make it out to be. I do what needs to be done, and that’s that. We’re about to...

In wartime, everyone’s birthday turns into a commemoration of something so sad.

Les vases du fleuve ensevelissaient ces vengeances obscures, sauvages et légitimes, héroïsmes inconnus, attaques muettes, plus périlleuses que les batailles au grand jour et sans le retentissement de la gloire.Car la haine de l’Étranger arme...

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

The only meaningful statistic in warfare is when the other side quits.

The enemy came towards us thick as mercury poured into a channel; a simmering tide oozing from the furnace of the risen sun into the pass below us. I felt Syrion tighten his grip on...

Then he leaned over, right there in the restaurant parking lot, and kissed me. And it wasn’t a friendship kiss, either. It was tender and real, and utterly romantic.

Since youre here, Courtauld said wearily, youd better explain why these lollipops or whatever they’re called have to be on silk. If I’d had a lollipop I knew precisely where Id stick it.

Those are the men,’ added Bolkonsky with a sigh which he could not suppress, as they went out of the palace, ‘those are the men who decide the fate of nations.

War is the most painful act of subjection to the laws of God that can be required of the human will.

That day I saw people trying to feed themselves but managing to do so only on a subsistence level. And people who are hungry are not worried about communism or Communists.

The Englishman left months ago, Hana, he’s with the Bedouin or in some English garden with its phlox and shit.

The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people.