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Democrats see our voluntary military supported by taxpayer dollars as their personal Salvation Army. Self-interested behavior, such as deploying troops to serve the nation, is considered boorish in Manhattan salons.

~ Ann Coulter

Ann Coulter Fighting Liberalism Self Interest Skirmish War

It (politician) wants to separate them. And to do so it has chosen the worst, blackest pencil of all - the pencil of war, which spells only misery and death.

~ Zlata Filipović

Zlata Filipović Diary War Young Generation

Even exciting places are boring most of the time. Wars. Movie sets. Emergency rooms.

~ Ann Brashares

Ann Brashares Emergency Room Movie Set War

War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up some failure on the part of the adults.

~ Karl Marlantes

Karl Marlantes Society War

What we dedicate today is not a memorial to war, rather it's a tribute to the physical and moral courage that makes heroes out of farm and city boys and that inspires Americans in every generation to lay down their lives for people they will never meet, for ideals that make life itself worth living.

~ Bob Dole

Bob Dole Inspirational Memoir War World War 2

It's all very well for us to sit here in the west with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate the sovereignty of another state. But if the effect of that is to bring people in that country economic and political freedom, to raise their standard of living, to increase their life expectancy, then don't rule it out.

~ Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson Humanitarian Intervention Interventionism Isolationism Noninterventionism Realpolitik Sovereignty War

It was sometimes feebly argued, as the political and military war against this enemy ran into difficulties, that it was 'a war without end.' I never saw the point of this plaintive objection. The war against superstition and the totalitarian mentality is an endless war. In protean forms, it is fought and refought in every country and every generation. In bin Ladenism we confront again the awful combination of the highly authoritarian personality with the chaotically nihilist and anarchic one. Temporary victories can be registered against this, but not permanent ones. As Bertold Brecht's character says over the corpse of the terrible Arturo Ui, the bitch that bore him is always in heat. But it is in this struggle that we develop the muscles and sinews that enable us to defend civilization, and the moral courage to name it as something worth fighting for.

~ Christopher Hitchens

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Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized... we shall have war.

~ Henri Bergson

Henri Bergson Overpopulation Population Population Growth War

War is nothing more than organized insanity. That's why crazy and unexpected tactics work most of the time. When they don't, we won't live to tell about it.

~ R.g. Risch

R.g. Risch Crazy Fighting Insanity Tactics Unexpected War

One day when I went out to my wood-pile, or rather my pile of stumps, I observed two large ants, the one red, the other much larger, nearly half an inch long, and black, fiercely contending with one another. Having once got hold they never let go, but struggled and wrestled and rolled on the chips incessantly. Looking farther, I was surprised to find that the chips were covered with such combatants, that it was not a duellum, but a bellum, a war between two races of ants, the red always pitted against the black, and frequently two red ones to one black. The legions of these Myrmidons covered all the hills and vales in my wood-yard, and the ground was already strewn with the dead and dying, both red and black. It was the only battle which I have ever witnessed, the only battle-field I ever trod while the battle was raging; internecine war; the red republicans on the one hand, and the black imperialists on the other. On every side they were engaged in deadly combat, yet without any noise that I could hear, and human soldiers never fought so resolutely.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau Ants Black Field Red War Wood Pile

A good roast of sun, it slows you, lets you relax–and out here if there's anything wrong, you can see it coming with bags of time to do what's next. This is the place and the weather for peace, for the cultivation of a friendly mind.

~ A.l. Kennedy

A.l. Kennedy Introspection Nature Outdoors Peace Sun War

...this protracted war will pass through three stages. The first stage covers the period of the enemy's strategic offensive and our strategic defensive. The second stage will be the period of the enemy's strategic consolidation and our preparation for the counter-offensive. The third stage will be the period of our strategic counter-offensive and the enemy's strategic retreat.

~ Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong Politics Revolution Strategy War

Warfare is now an interlocking system of actions—political, economic,psychological, military—that aims at the overthrow of the establishedauthority in a country and its replacement by another regime.

~ Roger Trinquier

Roger Trinquier Politics Revolution Theory Of The Partisan War

I dreamed kind Jesus fouled the big-gun gears, and caused a permanent stoppage in all bolts, and buckled with a smile Mausers and Colts, and rusted every bayonet with His tears.

~ Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Owen Dream Jesus War

War between free-will and predestination makes the idea of time travel is still too difficult to digest.

~ Toba Beta

Toba Beta Free Will Idea Ideas Predestination Time Travel War

Like war, love - all kinds of love - is for men who can take it. If they dare.

~ Ensan Case

Ensan Case Love War

...all the men in the photograph wear puttees. All the men in the picture are bound, trying to keep themselves together. That is how considerate they are, for the love of God and country and women and the other men--for the love of all that is good and true--they keep themselves together because they have to. They are afraid but they are not cowards.

~ Elena Mauli Shapiro

Elena Mauli Shapiro First World War France Great War Trenches War

Too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam.

~ Don Delillo

Don Delillo Autobiography Korea Korean War Robert Mccrum Vietnam Vietnam War War

I notice I am taking risks with my own security and losing my sensitivity to danger. I don't know it at the time, but the effects of war are reaching into me in unexpected ways, and I am being changed by them. I am surrounded by destruction and the randomness of death, which I cannot fathom. I have felt the closeness of death as tangibly as the whisper of a murderous seducer, and felt the richness, twinged by guilt, of having escaped its grasp. I have seen too often the numb lost look of men consumed by undiluted grief, and heard the howl of children as their mothers are pulled from the rubble of a rocket-blasted home, and I am coming to understand the long dark pain of those who silently endure what first seems unendurable.

~ Jason Elliot

Jason Elliot War

You can blow the world to pieces, but you can't blow the world to peace.

~ Dennis Kucinich

Dennis Kucinich Peace War

A woman sees war differently.

~ Tatjana Soli

Tatjana Soli War

At war, there's no right or wrong.Winner's right while loser's wrong.

~ Toba Beta

Toba Beta Loser Right Or Wrong War Winner

Human has no experience at all aboutliving in a peaceful world without war.

~ Toba Beta

Toba Beta Life Peace War

One thing I know from living with Jack is that war, any war, stains a man deep, and nothing can get the stain out. They can wear clothes like a rancher or a banker, but the stains are under there, never far from the surface of their skin.

~ Nancy E. Turner

Nancy E. Turner War

Speaking the truth is for losers and egomaniacs.

~ Dennis Perrin

Dennis Perrin Media War

She had always assumed that her life would end inside the war, that the war itself would be her eternal present, as it was for Darrow and for her brother. The possibility of time going on, her memories growing dim, the photographs of the battles turning from life into history terrified her.

~ Tatjana Soli

Tatjana Soli History War

Saigon in utter darkness this last night of the war. A gestating monster. Her letter to Linh had been simple: I love you more than life, but I had to see the end.

~ Tatjana Soli

Tatjana Soli War

Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of a state for Jews (or a Jewish state; not quite the same thing, as I failed at first to see) had been 'sold' to me as an essentially secular and democratic one. The idea was a haven for the persecuted and the survivors, a democracy in a region where the idea was poorly understood, and a place where—as Philip Roth had put it in a one-handed novel that I read when I was about nineteen—even the traffic cops and soldiers were Jews. This, like the other emphases of that novel, I could grasp. Indeed, my first visit was sponsored by a group in London called the Friends of Israel. They offered to pay my expenses, that is, if on my return I would come and speak to one of their mee

~ Christopher Hitchens

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Civil war... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as 'foreign war'? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers? Wars could only be defined by their aims. There were no 'foreign' or 'civil' wars, only wars that were just or unjust. Until the great universal concord could be arrived at, warfare, at least when it was the battle between the urgent future and the dragging past, might be unavoidable. How could such a war be condemned? War is not shameful, nor the sword-thrust a stab in the back, except when it serves to kill right and progress, reason, civilization, and truth. When this is war's purpose it maeks no difference whether it is civil or foreign war - it is a crime. Outside the sacred cause for justice, what grounds has one kind of war for denigrating another? By what right does the sword of Washington despise the pike of Camille Desmoulins? Which is the greater - Leonidas fighting the foreign enemy or Timoleon slaying the tyrant who was his brother? One was a defender, the other a liberator. Are we to condemn every resort to arms that takes place within the citadel, without concerning ourselves with its aim?

~ Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo War

And in heaven's name, who are the public enemies? exclaimed Dr. Leete. Are they France, England Germany or hunger, cold and nakedness?

~ Edward Bellamy

Edward Bellamy Government Political Utopia War

Bolt actions speak louder than words.

~ Craig Roberts

Craig Roberts Noremorse Rifle Snipe Sniper War Words

Millions cheer the warriorspilling blood across the ringwhile the one who stands for peaceis ridiculed and shamed.Must hearts forever sufferfrom ignorance and greed?Can bombs heal our soulsor set our spirits free?

~ Aberjhani

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Now the valley cried with anger, Mount your horses draw your sword. And they killed the mountain people, so they won their just reward. Now they stood beside the treasure, on the mountain dark and red. Turned the stone and looked beneath it. Peace on earth was all it said. Go ahead and hate your neighbor,go ahead and cheat a friend. Do it in the name of heaven, you can justify it in the end. There won't be any trumpets blowing come the judgment day. On the bloody morning after one tin soldier rides away.

~ Dennis Lambert

Dennis Lambert Judgement Day Justification Peace Peace On Earth War

Patriotism is nationalism, and always leads to war.

~ Helen Caldicott

Helen Caldicott Nationalism Patriotism War

Of course I do know it is the French who are so wicked; but there are all these people who keep coming and going - the Austrians, the Spaniards, the Russians. Pray, are the Russians good now? It would be very shocking - treason no doubt - to put the wrong people in my prayers.

~ Patrick O'brian

Patrick O'brian Prayer Shifting Enemies War

I do detest the human race as a whole, but some groups are more deserving than others

~ James D. Sass

James D. Sass Genocide Noremorse Racial War

If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a theory.

~ Jefferson Davis

Jefferson Davis American Historical War

In the German tongue, in the Polish townScraped flat by the rollerOf wars, wars, wars ...

~ Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath German Poland War

If you believe Might is Right, it follows that whoever cannot hold their ground does not deserve to keep it.

~ James D. Sass

James D. Sass Genocide Lonewolf Noremorse Race War

To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.

~ John Updike

John Updike Madness War
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