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...

So why had he come? He’d said he’d had no choice, but for centuries men had chopped off their own limbs, faked insanity, gone into hiding or to prison rather than to war. Was there...

I realized that more and more I was saying, ‘It seems to me that we have come to the time war ought to be given up. It no longer makes sense to kill 20 million...

Ah my friend, if you and I could escape this fray and live forever, never a trace of age, immortal, I would never fight on the front lines again or command you to the field...

They were mostly French, a few Arabs, and despite their uniforms they didn’t look very important any more. Later I learned that if you watch men die, especially if you’ve known them at all, they...

The most basic barrier was language itself, very few Americans in Iraq whether soldiers or diplomats or news paper reporters could speak more than a few words of Arabic. A remarkable number of them didn’t...

Humour is the best weapon to fight any battle. But there is a thin line between humour and humiliation and beware not to cross it.

Why would the US try to win a war? War is an assembly line of death that is highly profitable for politicians and weapons manufacturers. An ongoing war is a conveyer belt of cash. Once...

Home? What is home? Home is where a house is that you come back to when the rainy season is about to begin, to wait until the next dry season comes around. Home is where...

Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic wars going on inside millions and millions of individuals.

It is precisely that requirement of shared worship that has been the principal source of suffering for individual man and the human race since the beginning of history. In their efforts to impose universal worship,...

As suddenly the whole world would slip back into a mollifying, untormented dark; their aching bodies knew its calm.

Was there any meaning to life or to war, that two men should sit together and jump within seconds of each other and yet never meet on the ground below?

But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our...

Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival with entrance-tickets and bands, like a bull fight. Then in the arena the...

Then there was this freedom the little guys were always getting killed for. Was it freedom from another country? Freedom from work or disease or death? Freedom from your mother-in-law? Please mister give us a...

I notice I am taking risks with my own security and losing my sensitivity to danger. I don’t know it at the time, but the effects of war are reaching into me in unexpected ways,...

How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?

Oh! What honour for the female sex! It is perfectly obvious that God has special regard for it when all these wretched people who destroyed the whole Kingdom – now recovered and made safe by...

I’ll find out who’s inside. Wait here and keep alert!’ Hallam rasped. He skirted the main path to skulk towards one of the shuttered windows on the building’s eastern wall. There was a crack in...

I hope I am not for the killing, Anselmo was thinking. I think that after the war there will have to be some great penance done for the killing. If we no longer have religion...

O my Mansoul, I have lived, I have died, I live, and I will die no more for thee. I live that thou mayest not die. Because I live thou shalt live also; I reconciled...

far better option to wait a little bit longer than to resort to war.

Very little of what he learned of people’s actions began or ended with either the noble ideals or the fiendish wickedness he had been taught lay behind all great struggles. There was something comforting in...

We prayed these wars would end all wars –In war we know is no romance.”(Done With Bonaparte)

Being over there changes a man. Right and wrong don’t look so different anymore to some.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.

The events of the day overcame me all at once, and I struggled to breathe without crying.As darkness fell over Qalat Sukkar, I sat alone in the dim green light of the radios. I felt...

… the greatest mystery, the greatest wonder of creation is that we are capable of both relentless reason and boundless love … It is not about what we are, but what we can become.– Govinda...

Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!

Everything we do in life reflects through the virtues of a nation. For example if a nation is ruled through Fear, the Manifestation of War rises; If a nation is ruled through Love, War would...

Luck often comes to those who are brave.

Fire supposed he needed to be there in order to give rousing speeches and lead the charge into the fray, or whatever is was commanders did in wartime. She resented his competence at something so...

There is no place for innocence on the battlefield.

That summer, Titanic fever gripped Kabul. People smuggled pirated copies of the film from Pakistan- sometimes in their underwear. After curfew, everyone locked their doors, turned out the lights, turned down the volume, and reaped...

Thomas looked around and tried not to let his duty turn him bitter. These were good men, and he would not leave them behind. He had chosen this, an unselfish life.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

No one gets left behind, remember?

Make your enemies bleed.

In the heat of battle it ceases to be an idea or a flag for which we fight. Rather we fight for the man on our right or left. When the years fall away, all...

The Americans were understandably on hair triggers. There was a good reason for all of this security. For despite TV images of quick victory, much of Baghdad certainly had not fallen and firefights with die-hard...

The West Bank awaits the jihad (holy war) and martyrdom, and Jerusalem should expect more resistance.

Wars are the strongest evidence for the claim that man is still a wild animal.

The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind riding on your shoulders.

In school, it got so that Elijah learned to talk his way out of anything, gave great long speeches so that his words snaked themselves like vines around the nuns until they could no longer...