Quotes of: Korean-war Keyword

How then to enforce peace? Not by reason, certainly, nor by education. If a man could not look at the fact of peace and the fact of war and choose the former in preference to the latter, what additional argument could persuade him? What could be more...

The Currents of Space

I was hell-bent on being an effective humanitarian in Cambodia and Somalia. But a naïve fog is finally lifting. Revealed is a train wreck of illusions, the depravity of someone else's war, the futility of a competence stillborn there. To understand ...

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

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 to go. Get ready to come back. And the moments in between we mark on the ...

No Man's War: Irreverent Confessions of an Infantry Wife

Whether they come from Brooks Brothers or a thrift store, the sweaters we wear have a magnificent ancestry. Their history spans the worlds of Irish fishermen, French knights, World War I soldiers, busty Hollywood 'sweater girls,' and the television s...

Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible: The Fascinating History of Everything in Your Closet

This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds, or lands, nor anything about glory, honour, might, majesty, dominion, or power, except War. Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is ...

The Poems Of Wilfred Owen

You’ll know I’ve gone into ninja mode because I’ll have turned out the light. I make love like an assassin, and if you hear me snoring, I’m only pretending to be asleep! All love is based on deception. I mean war. War is based on deception. I...

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Brave Americans in past wars didn't die for the actual flag--they died for the freedom it represents, including the freedom to burn it.

When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism

And then you got us. Yeah, we stopped the zombie menace, but we're the ones who let it become a menace in the first place. At least we're cleaning up our own mess, and maybe that's the best epitaph to hope for. "Generation Z, they cleaned up their ow...

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

Nobody ever wanted to go to war, but if a war came your way, it might as well be the right war, about the most important things in the world, and you might as well, if you were going to fight it, be called "Rushdie," and stand where your father had p...

Salman Rushdie

Jealousy knows no logic, nor does it respect reciprocity.

Eisenhower in War and Peace

Suddenly he knew all the things he should have said.

Flotsam: A Novel of World War II

Sometimes, war can make a change. Sometimes, change can ignite a war.

Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

The opposite of war is not peace but civilisation, and civilisation is purchased with violence and cold-blooded murder. With war.

The Blind Man's Garden

I'd done the method bit before from, like, age 15 to 19. I was a Civil War re-enactor.

Cary Fukunaga

We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs... are changing the face of war and how we prepare for war.

William J. Perry

Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.

Lajos Kossuth

I sleep lightly and tread to keep my head out of the sea of dreams.

Acacia: The War with the Mein

Before Venus, censorious; before Mars, timid.

Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument With Historical Illustrations

Bfore Venus, censorious; before Mars, timid.

Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument With Historical Illustrations

The only lies that are true are the ones that you believe.

My War: Killing Time in Iraq

The other day, we went somewhere, and did something.

My War: Killing Time in Iraq