The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
Wars are all fought by men who either believe they are right or who have no other choice. How they fight defines who they are when the blood stops flowing.
So you love war. I used to think you were a decent man. But I see now I was mistaken. You're a hero.
You've lived through a lot of wars, I said. "Yes." Do they ever make more sense? "No.
In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.
I have no interest in dying. But I have to. I have to care one day about things that don't matter to me.
In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.
Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
Maybe it's time to stop being a soldier and go home to be a father. And a husband for Deanna. I'm not sure how.
The happiness of a family is such a complex matter. Like a table laid out with a tea service, it looks so ordinary until it's threatened. Then it becomes infinitely precious.
I refuse to believe that gods want to make mortals unhappy and torment them. That's what humans do. And humans are very definitely not divine.
Of course he was afraid of war. Only fools are not. Anaxantis was no fool. He was fully prepared to fight, but only as a last resort.
Someday this war will be over. A new order of the world will appear in its place. The idea of Socialism will prevail. In the future they’ll remember us as heroes.” Thorkild aka ‘Borge’ The Informer by Steen Langstrup
Here they [the Jaredites] became a flourishing nation; but, giving way in time to internal dissensions, they divided into factions, which warred with one another until the people were totally destroyed (p. 15).
There are plenty of laws to protect guys' money even in war time but there's nothing on the books says a man's life's his own.
In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.
In peacetime some sort of introduction is generally required to make a person's acquaintance; in war a small eatable will perform the same office.
It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
Do you know, sire, I think that if we live to tell our grandchildren about this war, they will accuse us of making it up.' -Marielle
Before you leave here, Sir, you’re going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.
When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it. If we really want to escape this war, we have to stop bringing it with us.
