Quotes of: Modern-war Keyword

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

Proving himself to himself was no small matter.

The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace

Hope is a fruit of proven character.

Love and War: Finding the Marriage You've Dreamed Of

The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.

Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.

Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

The first casualty of a civil war was justice, Philip had realized.

The Pillars of the Earth