A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.
Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.
World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.
The world has already been saved from war. The question is how Christians can and should live in a world of war as a people who believe that war has been abolished.
After World War II, the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism blew through the developing world.
I have gone through so many examinations of what a hero is, between the World War II stuff and the astronaut stuff.
My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.
The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
…this was not as real as my despairing sense that nothing was real for me, nothing would ever be real for me again – unless, indeed, this sensation of falling was reality…
A real man can use power, rather than let power use him
Oh my God ... YOU are real. Oh my God ... You ARE real. OH MY GOD ... You are REAL! Oh my God ... You're really real!
Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.
Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.
I want to tell authentic, real stories with real characters.
Point being that you don't have to get too worked up about us, dear educated minds. You don't have to think of us as real girls, real flesh and blood, real pain, real injustice. That might be too upsetting. Just discard the sordid part. Consider us p...
Real Toby: [looking at jellybeans on a tray] I think one might be lime. One might be like mint. Real Harvey: Well, what's the difference between this and this? Real Toby: One's cherry, one's cinnamon. Real Harvey: You can tell that by just looking at...
I argue that even as the war is framed in certain ways to control and heighten affect in relation to the differential grievability of lives, so war has come to frame ways of thinking multiculturalism and debates on sexual freedom, issues largely cons...
You may think you know someone very well. But there'll always be parts you can't see. Sometimes she'll look weak, but she is hiding her strength. Sometimes she'll seem strong... and yet she's so fragile on the inside.
Some printed pages are medical plasters to extract pain, others are tourists' tickets out of boredom or loneliness to exhilarating adventures, still others are diplomas for promotion and drilling ideas into a quick-step.
Can you ever "solve" disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no. All you can hope for is to make them manageable enough to allow people to get on with their lives. That's not cynicism, that's maturity.
