Quotes of: Great-war Keyword

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

Shakti Gawain

Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.

Walter Savage Landor

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

G.K. Chesterton

I haven't got ambitions. Actually, I'm determined not to die until I get very old. I want to be a great-great-great-grandmother.

Charlotte Rampling

Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead.

Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two

(On surviving on the raft for 47 days) We had truly made it on a wing and prayer.

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perf...

Ends and Means

If blue helmeted UN peacekeepers show up in your town or village and offer to protect you, run.

Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures): True Stories from a War Zone

Precarity designates that politically induced condition in which certain populations suffer from failing social and economic networks of support and become differentially exposed to injury, violence, and death.

Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable?

Men are stupid and ignorant. That is why they suffer. Instead of thinking, they believe all that they are told, all that they are taught. They choose their lords and masters without judging them, with a fatal taste for slavery.

Fear: A Novel of World War I

It's not much. You begin by thinking there is something extraordinary about it. But you'll find out, when you've been out in the world a while longer, unhappiness is the commonest thing there is.

Flotsam: A Novel of World War II

To this day, I believe the unity of the world's countries in the fight against terror is more powerful than the fight itself.

A General Speaks Out: The Truth About the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

He thinks Goliath can end the war," Alek managed at last. "The man wants peace!" "As do we all," Count Volger said. "But there are many ways to end a war. Some are more peaceful than others.

Goliath

5,6. The Moral Law causes the people to be in complete accord with their ruler, so that they will follow him regardless of their lives, undismayed by any danger. Excerpt From: Sunzi. “The Art of War.” iBooks. This material may be protected by cop...

The Art of War

Gentlemen. You are looking at the true Abraham Lincoln of Arabia. And in order to end our internal bickering - our civil war, if you will - I have solicited your aid.

Brethren: A Gripping Tale of Counter Espionage

A brick could be used to sell war to the peacemongers. The trick is to sell war cheap, because the real profit is in the renewals and extending the service as long as possible.


Brick and Blanket Test in Brick City (Ocala) Florida

Please remember, no matter how hard it seems and no matter how badly you feel you can always become courageous.

Become Courageous Abeba: A Story of Love, Loss, War and Hope

The U.S. might enjoy overwhelming military advantage, but its relative economic power, which in the long run is almost invariably decisive, is in decline. The interregnum after the Cold War, far from being the prelude to a new American age, was beari...

Martin Jacques

Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker ...

Russell Baker

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise...

1984

War does not only kill soldiers and warriors. It also kills rules and moral values. No! Those cannot be killed. War kills the pretense at rules and moral values. It also kills the pretense of being human beings...

Arjun: Without a Doubt