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We’ve been put into war, between body and soul. 28.06.11

~ Vicdo

Vicdo Body Soul War

It was harder for the ones who were waiting, Annemarie knew. Less danger, perhaps, but more fear.

~ Lois Lowry

Lois Lowry Danger Fear Inspirational War World War 2

There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general:(1) Recklessness, which leads to destruction;(2) cowardice, which leads to capture;(3) a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults;(4) a delicacy of honor which is sensitive to shame;(5) over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble.

~ Sun Tzu

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The idea for the Guild first came up at a party. Your father and I met there and, well, I suppose that's a story all its own. But we were both frustrated by the media at the time. We set out to tell the truth when everyone else seemed set on choosing sides. We had grand ideas about how far we could reach. … Back then, we knew we should be careful, but we had no idea how dangerous it would turn out to be.

~ Sonny And Ais

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At the advent of danger there are always two voices that speak with equal force in the human heart: one very reasonably invites a man to consider the nature of the peril and the means of escaping it; the other, with a still greater show of reason, argues that it is too depressing and painful to think of the danger since it is not in man's power to foresee everything and avert the general march of events, and it is better therefore to shut one's eyes to the disagreeable until it actually comes, and to think instead of what is pleasant. When a man is alone he generally listens to the first voice; in the company of his fellow-men, to the second.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy Danger War

Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves. There are Greek troops, to be sure, in Persian service — but how different is their cause from ours! They will be fighting for pay — and not much of at that; we, on the contrary, shall fight for Greece, and our hearts will be in it. As for our foreign troops — Thracians, Paeonians, Illyrians, Agrianes — they are the best and stoutest soldiers in Europe, and they will find as their opponents the slackest and softest of the tribes of Asia. And what, finally, of the two men in supreme command? You have Alexander, they — Darius!

~ Alexander The Great

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They said it was only a ground shark, but I was not wholly reassured. It is as bad to be eaten by a ground shark as by any other.

~ Winston S. Churchill

Winston S. Churchill Danger Sharks War

Revenge is not redress. Revenge is a wheel, and it turns backwards.

~ Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett Politics Observation Revenge War

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero Defense Provocation Revenge War

Remembering the treatment that had been accorded the Knights and soldiers of St. Elmo, the Maltese inhabitants of Senglea took no prisoners. Hence there arose the expression (used in Malta to this day) 'St. Elmo's pay' for any action in which no mercy is given.

~ Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford

Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford Mercy Retribution Revenge St Elmo War

Engagement can be a commitment to love or a declaration of war. One must enter every battle without hesitation, willing to fully engage the enemy until death do you apart.

~ Emily Thorne

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Without empathy, there'd be no harmony in diversity

~ Jennifer Tindugan-Adoviso

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The Dark Angel had seen much over the course of the past millennia, the passing of hundreds of thousands of mortal lives. He felt neither remorse nor mercy for the enemies he had felled in the course of wars and battles. He did what he had to do and believed that the people of Earth did not deserve all the good things they had received. For him, most people were harmful parasites who, in the process of their brief mortal lives, tried to get ahead by climbing over each other and destroying their own homes. He looked down on them and their love of material things. He believed that the star of humankind was waning, and that its brief stay on Earth would serve, at most, to swell the ranks of slaves in the underworld, where eventually darkness would eat them away.

~ A.o. Esther

A.o. Esther Angels Elijah War

On bad days you wonder, ‘Why not just back off from the war and lead a quiet metalife?

~ David Mitchell

David Mitchell Bad Days Metalife War Wonder

Our task over the next few generations is to transform the world of independent states in which we live into some sort of genuine international community. If we succeed in creating that community, however quarrelsome, discontented, and full of injustice it probably will be, then we shall effectively have abolished the ancient institution of warfare. Good riddance.

~ Gwynne Dyer

Gwynne Dyer Community International Law War

Everyone was important during the war. Everyone. We worked together and we won.

~ Sara Sheridan

Sara Sheridan Community Fighting Teamwork United War Work

Death, it turns out, is the mother of all conflicts.

~ Mark Z. Danielewski

Mark Z. Danielewski Death Death And Dying War

Jason smiled. The sound of wings was louder now, the fluttering of angels come to carry him home.

~ Robert Ferrigno

Robert Ferrigno Alternate History Civil War Death And Dying War

Verily, there is no dishonor in death at the hands of a far superior enemy.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

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Thus spake brave Horatius, the captain of the gate. To all men upon this Earth, death cometh soon or late. And what better way to die, than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of ones' fathers, and the temples of ones' G/Ds? For the tender mother, who dandled him to rest. And for the wife, who nurses his baby at her breast. And for the holy maidens, who feed the eternal flame. To save them from false sextus, that wrought the deed of shame. Lay down the bridge, Sir Consul, with all the speed ye may. I, with two more at either side, shall hold the foe in play. In Yon straight path a thousand may well be stop by three. Now who will stand on either hand and hold the bridge with me?

~ Thomas Babington Macaulay

Thomas Babington Macaulay Death And Dying Epic Honor Poetry War

She died in my arms saying, “I don’t want to die.” That is what death is like. It doesn’t matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn’t matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we could never have war anymore.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer Death Death And Dying War

Differences disappear when faced with death.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

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They dropped like flakes, they dropped like stars,Like petals from a rose,When suddenly across the luneA wind with fingers goes.They perished in the seamless grass,No eye could find the place;But God on his repealless listCan summon every face

~ Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson Death And Dying Love War

‎The days are hot and the dead lie unburied. We cannot fetch them all in, if we did we should not know what to do with them. The shells will bury them...

~ Enrich M. Remarque

Enrich M. Remarque All Quiet On The Western Front Death And Dying War

It was during this terrible night that the three wounded died, and the jeeps froze solid.

~ Pat Frank

Pat Frank Death And Dying Korean War War

For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed;And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill,And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still!

~ George Gordon Byron

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A dagger wants flesh, her father would say. Find it.

~ Marie Rutkoski

Marie Rutkoski Dagger Fight Flesh General Trajan Kestrel War

I will have thee, as our rarer monsters are, painted upon a pole,and underwrit: Here you may see the tyrant, Macbeth

~ William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare Fight Monsters War

When your mother and your father are having a fight, do you want them to kill each other? Or do you just want them tostop fighting?

~ Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston Fight War

Equality before the enemy -that is the main condition to fight a fair duel. Where you have contempt, you cannot wage war; where you are in command, where you can see someone beneath you, you should not wage war.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche Equality In War Fair Duel Fight Nietzsche War

The greatest war we fight is the one within ourselves.

~ Eric Christopher Jackson

Eric Christopher Jackson Fight Internal Struggle War

Don't start a fight if you can't duke it out. Either win or concede but whatever you do, don't have others fight for you.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Donna Lynn Hope Battle Coward Fight War

Stopping a war; that is, stopping actual military combat, is not stopping a war in all its factors. During continuous hard strain a human mind can hold up; and it is truly amazing how much it can stand. Day by day, with that war-strain of worry pulling it down, it staunchly holds aloof, as a mighty oak in facing a storm. But it has a limit!! With too much too long strain, it will snap; just as that mighty oak will fall, in a long fight.

~ Ernest Vincent Wright

Ernest Vincent Wright Fight Gadsby Sickness War

Evan stares at me.I try to hug him. He takes a step back. I pause, my heart in my throat. I’ve got to reach out to him, let myself be vulnerable. I find the courage, but he backs up again.“You can’t go to Iraq anymore.”“I know.”He looks up at Deanna, then back to me. “Did you fight bad guys? You told me you weren’t.” His voice is suspicious, full of accusation. He doesn’t trust me, and I don’t blame him for that.“No, Evan. I didn’t fight bad guys.”I can’t bring myself to tell him the complete truth. I want so desperately to go back into this fight. I miss it every day. I always felt I could change the world with a rifle in my hands and our flag on my shoulder.“Did you get shot?” he looks me over, apparently searching for bullet wounds.I grin a little. “No, Bud, I didn’t get shot.”“People get shot in Iraq.”“Yes, they do.” It strikes me then that Evan for the first time has a grasp on the dangers that are faced over there. He’s six now, and the world is coming into focus for him.“People get shot, Daddy. They die. Bad guys kill them.”I think of Edward Iwan and Sean Sims.“Yeah, I know they do, Evan.

~ David Bellavia

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He is a true casualty of battle. There's not a physical scar, but look at the man's heart, and his head, and there are scars galore.

~ David Finkel

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It's always funny that you can try and try again to steal all your critics' ammo, predict their responses, but no matter what, they'll still have a water gun stashed somewhere.

~ Criss Jami

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We were not told how Alexander the Great was the last person in history to successfully 'pacify' what would become Afghanistan, over 2,000 years ago.

~ Jake Wood

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Many want to be a warrior but they don't know what a lonely, tough, or pain staking journey it is. Warriors have to fight on behalf of the defenseless, defend what is right, as well as fight believers and non-believers alike. In reality, few like warriors because they confront their own, and their own think they're above being confronted. The warrior, you see, most often walks alone.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Donna Lynn Hope Defenders Fight Fighting Lonely War Warriors

But I will never ask anyone from our village-from any village in Tlanth-to risk his or her life unless I'm willing to myself.

~ Sherwood Smith

Sherwood Smith Fight Life Morals War

There was a loud shuffling above. A line of redcoats took their position at the edge of the ravine and aimed down at the rebels. Present! the British officer screamed to his men. Present! yelled the American officer. His men brought the butts of their muskets up to their shoulders and sighted down the long barrels, ready to shoot and kill. I pressed my face into the earth, unable to plan a course of escape. My mind would not be mastered and thought only of the wretched, lying, foul, silly girl who was the cause of everything. I thought of Isabel and I missed her. FIRE!

~ Laurie Halse Anderson

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