The old Lie:Dulce et decorum estPro patria mori.

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

…Obama said, ‘I welcome debate among my team, but I won’t tolerate division.

Occasionally, a flicker of curiosity would urge the pilots to turn their heads and glance out past the sharp metallic casing of their jets to gaze at the distant, inland desert. They could barely recognise...

They say this war is a cloud over the land! But they make the weather and then they stand in the rain and say, ‘Shit, it’s raining!

War has to have some decorum. Otherwise it’s back to the Bleakening for all of us, and Kresimir be damned.

If war is the answer, it’s a bloody stupid question.

God works through people by stirring their hearts and sometimes people never know how they are helping others.

I feel proud that I have been counted worthy to have blood shed by a traitor, and to suffer torture at the hands of those who have undertaken to trail our Flag in the dust....

I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.

So does nobody care about Ireland?””Nobody. Neither King Louis, nor King Billie, nor King James.” He nodded thoughtfully. “The fate of Ireland will be decided by men not a single one of whom gives a...

It’s like a war — they come in completely covered with masks and goggles and check if the carcasses are disposed properly.

Patriotism is nationalism, and always leads to war.

It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk. Leaves were never such an intense and iridescent green; sunlight glinted on flower-studded meadows as...

Isn’t it amazing that, historically, the “Prince of Peace” has most often been introduced to new cultures through extreme violence? European and American colonialists bring this disparity to light in a way that makes me...

You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you’d run no risk of death: you lack the...

I once asked an old Japanese man why Japan decided to team up with Germany during WWII, and do you know what he told me? Well, you would if you speak Japanese, which I don’t.

To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind

This is an orchestration for an event. For a dance in fact. The participants will be apprised of their roles at the proper time. For now it is enough that they have arrived. As the...

War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair. In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they might recognize their common interest and therefore limit the destructiveness of war, did...

I have a protective coating, like a tank. It’s called Love. And when I get you naked, I’ll want to make war to you.

When politicians declare war, I declare my love for antilove for them.

They were in a long line, an endless line, and as they burst from the wood there was an instant, the smallest part of a heartbeat, when all Catelyn saw was the moonlight on the...

I remember the lightning in the air, and the lovers bidding goodbye to each other in the streets, and I can tell you what I think. We went to war because going to war is...

The idea that we’re going to win this war is an idea that unfortunately is just plain wrong.

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.