I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.
I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
Wars of the foolish are destructive, wars of the wise bring transformation.
The Iraq war fueled distrust of the press from both sides.
War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War.
The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie.
I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War.
I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.
In case of war, a treaty would have to be made at the end of the war.
When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
The fact that in the twentieth century a greater proportion of the people in the world could communicate with one another, using English or just a few other languages, appears not to have stopped any wars, nor to have reduced the frequency with which...
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Finally, I wish to remember the millions of Allied servicemen and prisoners of war who lived the story of the Second World War. Many of these men never came home; many others returned bearing emotional and physical scars that would stay with them for...
Former civilians did not anticipate how disoriented they would feel as they lost access to their hobbies and interests while being drilled into a pattern of uniformity and sameness. It felt foreign to them to be told when to wake up, how to dress, wh...
In the beginning war looks and feels like love. But unlike love it gives nothing in return but an ever-deepening dependence, like all narcotics, on the road to self-destruction. It does not affirm but places upon us greater and greater demands. It de...
