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I regard President Trump as an international terrorist.

~ Steven Magee

Steven Magee International Poltics President Psychology Terrorism Terrorist Trump Usa War

The holy war is within.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Lailah Gifty Akita Fight Good Fight Of Faith Inspirational Self Help War Within

The ease with which moneyforgives bayonets and liesto justify the massacre with reasoned arguments

~ Xiaobo Liu

Xiaobo Liu Military Industrial Complex Oppression War

The fear had precedent. Toward the end of the Civil War, having witnessed the effectiveness of the Union's 'colored troops,' a flailing Confederacy began considering an attempt to recruit blacks into its army. But in the nineteenth century, the idea of the soldier was heavily entwined with the notion of masculinity and citizenship. How could an army constituted to defend slavery, with all of its assumptions about black inferiority, turn around and declare that blacks were worthy of being invited into Confederate ranks? As it happened, they could not. 'The day you make a soldier of them is the beginning of the end of our revolution,' observed Georgia politician Howell Cobb. 'And if slaves seem good soldiers, then our whole theory of slavery is wrong.' There could be no win for white supremacy here. If blacks proved to be the cowards that 'the whole theory of slavery' painted them as, the battle would be lost. But much worse, should they fight effectively--and prove themselves capable of 'good Negro government'--then the larger war could never be won.

~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

Ta-Nehisi Coates Civil War Confederacy Georgia Good Negro Government Race Theories Of Race Us Civil War War White Supremacy

It was a frightening metaphor for what the United States was becoming – a Titanic of rich, proud dimwits heading for the iceberg of anti-colonialist backlash.

~ M.b. Dallocchio

M.b. Dallocchio Backlash Colonialism Government Corruption Imperialism Titanic War

Aside from clinically-diagnosed psychopaths, I have not met one person in war who thoroughly enjoyed killing. If someone ended up bragging over a kill, it was safe to assume that their story was mere fabrication or that they were one bad day away from an inpatient psychiatric ward. No matter how much someone may appear to deserve to be killed, something dies within us when we kill. It's contradictory, the antithesis of our species survival instinct.

~ M.b. Dallocchio

M.b. Dallocchio Combat Iraq Killing Murder Ptsd Survival War

Veterans being sent into unjust wars for corporate profit is a perversion of trust, at best. I found the emotional manipulation of both sides, the propaganda at play so incredibly revolting that I couldn't stand to idly wave a flag or flaunt yellow ribbons without asking serious questions regarding motive.

~ M.b. Dallocchio

M.b. Dallocchio Government Manufactured Consent Patriotism Ptsd Trauma War

Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.

~ Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell Barbarism Peace Violence War

A woman in combat? Yes. Since when? Since Native American warrior Buffalo Calf Road Woman knocked that prick General George Custer off of his horse. Since Pantea Arteshbod propelled herself to become one of the greatest Persian commanders during the reign of Cyrus the Great. Since Hua Mulan disguised herself as a male to engage in combat and became one of China’s most respected heroines.

~ M.b. Dallocchio

M.b. Dallocchio Army Home Iraq Ptsd Survival Trauma Veteran War Women In Combat

Sometimes I see myself driving through hell with this wagon and selling brimstone. And sometimes I’m driving through heaven handing our provisions to wandering souls! If only we could find a place where there’s no shooting, me and my children—what’s left of ‘em—we might rest a while.

~ Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht Courage Peace War

Hungry men are not known for their patience or their kindness.

~ Karen Essex

Karen Essex Hunger Patience Kindness Pestilence War

There exists a line within every man, a line that frightens even us. When an enemy comes to our very doorstep to endanger wife and child, our Beast is unleashed. The Lionmage had gone feral.

~ Braith Maxwell

Braith Maxwell Fantasy Life Love Philosphy War

You must bear losses like a soldier, the voice told me, bravely and without complaint, and just when the day seems lost, grab your shield for another stand, another thrust forward. That is the juncture that separates heroes from the merely strong.

~ Margaret George

Margaret George Bravery Inspirational Julius Caesar Loss Resilience War

In the battle for possession of souls and worlds, it is likely that all serve to only one master.

~ Robert Neil Fleischer

Robert Neil Fleischer Battles Quotes Ideology Religion War Compromise Manipulation Quotes Mass Manipulation Master Quotes Religion Quotes Slavery Quotes Spiritual Quotes War Wars Of Religion

Every country has its own problem too numerous to name, so does North Korea. And it’s no one’s business to solve the latter’s problem unless it seeks for it. If North Korea shows off its nuclear weapon capability, it’s because its sovereignty was threatened by foreign powers. It doesn’t want to happen to its country what’s happening now in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, and Yemen. Justice and charity begin at home, not at someone’s backyard. Hence, any country trying to solve North Korea’s problem by force or by any means should start first in its own backyard and solve the political and social injustices, divisions, and neglect suffered by its own citizens.

~ Danny Castillones Sillada

Danny Castillones Sillada Foreign Powers North Korea Nuclear Weapon Social Injustice Social Responsibility Sovereignty Superpower War

Because it is a systematic negation of the other person and a furious determination to deny the other person all attributes of humanity, colonialism forces the people it dominates to ask themselves the question constantly: In reality, who am I? The defensive attitudes created by this violent bringing together of the colonised man and the colonial system form themselves into a structures which then reveals the colonised personality. This 'sensitivity' is easily understood if we simply study and are alive to the number and depth of the injuries inflicted upon a native during a single day spent amidst the colonial regime. It must in any case be remembered that a colonised people is not only simply a dominated people. Under the German occupation the French remained men; under the French occupation, the Germans remained men. In Algeria there is not simply the domination but the decision to the letter not to occupy anything more than the sum total of the land.

~ Frantz Fanon

Frantz Fanon Africa Algeria Capitalism Colonialism Imperialism Politics Psychology Slavery War

On armageddon day,' Sandy said, 'both armies will think they fight for good. And both of them will be wrong.

~ George R.r. Martin

George R.r. Martin Morality War

Armageddon,' Sandy said. 'The final battle. The ultimate confrontation between good and evil. That's what armageddon is supposed to be. Right?'Hobbins lifted a pale white eyebrow, said nothing.'Which side are we?' Sandy demanded. 'Which side are we?''That's one you got to work out yourself, friend. This ain't like in Tolkien, is it?

~ George R.r. Martin

George R.r. Martin Battle Good And Evil Tolkien War

So much of war is sitting around and doing nothing, waiting for somebody else. With no guarantee of the amount of time you have left it doesn't seem worth even starting a train of thought.

~ Graham Greene

Graham Greene War

Life went on. Death went on. The war went on.

~ Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy Death Life War

You've got to cram it into your thick heads: the sickos that sent us to this place are so stuffed with hate they've got to spew it out on someone, it almost doesn't matter who. If it's not one race, face or religion it'd be another. Right now it's us they vomit on. Next war it'll be some other poor beggars, then some others, then -''I want to go home!' the poor woman gasped, in between shakes and sobs.'And I want to murder every last beast in this hellhole with my bare hands,' Girder raged. She had hands as big as dinner plates. 'The best we can do instead is live. Are you listening? The only way to beat them is by not dying. So shut up and survive, you miserable cow. And let the rest of us sleep.

~ Lucy Adlington

Lucy Adlington War

War is not an art, boy. Send a hundred men over a hill and know that they won’t make it. Hold a drummer boy, cut open from groin to neck, guts spilling out as he cries for his mother, telling him it’s going to be all right. Make him believe you. Be his commanding officer, his god. Let him let his guard down and be kind enough to snap his neck. War is butchery. And I am the better butcher.

~ Alex Avrio

Alex Avrio War

Humans want peace, not war. But, sometimes war is needed to establish peace!

~ Md. Ziaul Haque

Md. Ziaul Haque Establish Humans Need Peace Want War

Nothing can stop an enemy from picking wireless messages out of the free air - and nothing did.

~ Barbara Tuchman

Barbara Tuchman Espionage Intelligence War Zimmerman Telegram

[Blinker] Hall, operating on the quaint theory that the Navy might be needed for battle and that whatever increased the ship's efficiency was a criterion for change, had continued trampling on the toes of orthodoxy.

~ Barbara Tuchman

Barbara Tuchman Espionage Intelligence Room 40 War William Reginald Hall

The problem is that it's hard to aim a rifle when your heart is pounding, which points to an irony of modern combat: it does extraordinarily violent things to the human body but requires almost dead calm to execute well.

~ Sebastian Junger

Sebastian Junger Combat War

She looks to be about three, the same age as his daughter at home in California...the girl's eyes are open. She seems to be cowering...Graves reaches in to pick her up- thinking about what medical supplies he might need to treat her...when the top of her head slides off and her brains fall out.

~ Evan Wright

Evan Wright Dark War

I cruised into this war thinking my buddy's going to take a bullet, and I'm going to be the fucking hero pulling him out of harm's way. Instead, I end up pulling out this little girl we shot, hiding in the backseat of her dad's car.

~ Evan Wright

Evan Wright Dark War

War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy. His wife and children may be shoeless, someone will always buy him drink or weapons.

~ William Faulkner

William Faulkner Alcohol Drink Money Violence War

To stay alive, you have to keep moving. Running, relocating, driving, doing everything in your power to stay in motion and make it to safety.

~ M.b. Dallocchio

M.b. Dallocchio Iraq Ptsd Running Away Safety Survival Trauma War

A moving target is harder to kill, and I didn't stop running, maneuvering, until I reached home base, where I could breathe between death-defying sprints. I just need to make it home alive, and this will all be over, I told myself. Home.

~ M.b. Dallocchio

M.b. Dallocchio Army Home Iraq Ptsd Survival Trauma Veteran War

Today, we have mercenaries in Africa, corporate armies from the western world, and unemployed men throughout the Middle East killing their own people - and people of other nations - for a paycheck. To act without a conscience, but for a paycheck, makes anyone a dangerous animal. The devil would be powerless if he couldn't entice people to do his work. So as long as money continues to seduce the hungry, the hopeless, the broken, the greedy, and the needy, there will always be war between brothers.

~ Suzy Kassem

Suzy Kassem Capitalism Colonialism Devil Greedy India Mercenaries War

Some days I feel like I will die for them. Some days, with them.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Lamont Walker Death Dying Fighting Revolution Revolutionary War

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother? Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.

~ Ernst Toller

Ernst Toller Empathy Humanity Suffering War

The war dragged on, as wars tend to do.

~ Kelsey Brickl

Kelsey Brickl Battle Civil War Conflict Dragging On Interminable Tendency War

Pick a side? You done picked the wrong side.

~ Kelsey Brickl

Kelsey Brickl Choosing Sides Civil War Division Picking Sides The Wrong Side Of Right War

My friends I tell you this, we are a jolly group but put us in uniform and all that change. In war I don’t know who my brother. In war I don’t know who my friend. War make everybody savage. Who can say what lies inside the heart of each one of us when everything is taken away.

~ Edna O'brien

Edna O'brien Brothers War

The Marine Corps forced me to come home from Afghanistan. It's up to me to allow myself to come home.

~ Thomas J Brennan

Thomas J Brennan Memoir Military Veterans War

Can it be that there is not enough space for man in this beautiful world, under those immeasurable, starry heavens? Is it possible that man's heart can harbour, amid such ravishing natural beauty, feelings of hatred, vengeance, or the desire to destroy his fellows? All the evil in man, one would think, should disappear on contact with Nature, the most spontaneous expression of beauty and goodness.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy Beauty Hatred Nature Vengeance War

They killed him because he was too innocent to live. He was young and ignorant and silly and he got involved. He had no more of a notion than any of you what the whole affair's about, and you gave him money and York Harding's books on the East and said, 'Go ahead. Win the East for democracy.' He never saw anything he hadn't heard in a lecture hall, and his writers and his lecturers made a fool of him.

~ Graham Greene

Graham Greene Ideology Innocence Nation Building War
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