War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, consolidates nations, and indeed, constitutes the principal factor in the progress of civilization through its successive stages.
The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.
Of course I would never compare myself to someone who actually went through a war, but I definitely matured shooting 'The Pacific.' I'm more calm and I have more patience.
I see lots of cycles, for sure. There's the whole post-Star Wars era, but I don't think it's the whole story.
I have served in the Congress during two wars and I have seen the impacts on our military, on their families and on our national deficit.
I've lived through a war. I've seen burning corpses on the road side. And yes, I will tell you, peace is the only way out.
In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called war between good and evil.
If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.
Lending war equipment is a good deal like lending chewing gum. You don't want it back.
As a sea is full of drops of liquid, I was but one in the ocean of War Many are swept ruthlessly into the battering, bashing waves, and only few survive to swim to shore
Orcs do not have enemies.” Monde tried to search for the proper term, “We have…adversaries.” “Isn’t that the same thing?” “Depends on who’s winning the war.
The War,' said a soldier proverb, 'will last a hundred years--five years of fighting and ninety-give of winding up the barbed wire.
Will we shoot virtually at each other over the Internet? Probably not. On the other hand, there may be wars fought about the Internet.
Earth is a homicide victim. We lose our children. There are wars. Disease. And God comes strolling by like a cosmic Billie Burke.
And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.
The ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming with alarming rapidity.
Though no one wants war, Congress needed to give the President the authority he needs to protect America while encouraging the use of diplomacy and negotiations to try and arrive at a peaceful solution to this problem.
Genius, scholar, and war hero though he is, you have to admit - or maybe you should think about admitting - that George Bush might have rushed things a little in invading Iraq.
We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.
These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges.
Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
