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Live for something rather than die for nothing.

~ George S. Patton Jr.

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Victory is a thing of the will.

~ Marshal Foch

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With a savage grin, he let out an inhuman roar of bloodlust and threw himself into an unholy orgy of blood, fangs, claws, and death.

~ Alan Kinross

Alan Kinross Battle Bloodlust Claws Death Fangs Heroic War

When your enemy is tough make your actions rough, you will meet at the same point.

~ Auliq Ice

Auliq Ice Battle Enemies And Opposition Success War Warfare Wining

Never mind of what your enemy thinks of you, relax and think a head of him.

~ Auliq Ice

Auliq Ice Battle Enemies And Opposition Success War Warfare Wining

I suffered my own battles. I suffer still.

~ Carla H. Krueger

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The noble heart will find no shortage of places to offer itself in martyrdom, but you cannot die on every battlefield.”~ Duncan Sinclair, from The Outcast Highlander

~ R.l. Syme

R.l. Syme Battle Heroism Martyrdom War

Waiting for a battle was the hardest part. Unless you got a dagger in your gut during the battle. Then that was hardest. Or you got through just fine and saw your men dead around you. Then that was.

~ Daniel Abraham

Daniel Abraham Battle War Warfare

Humour is the best weapon to fight any battle. But there is a thin line between humour and humiliation and beware not to cross it.

~ Girish Kohli

Girish Kohli Battle Humour War

Amnesia was a soldier's best friend, and luckily, it could be taught. Missing limbs still ache, but missing memories never do.

~ Alex London

Alex London Amnesia Battle Ptsd Soldier War Warfare

In battle, in a war, a soldier sees only a tiny fragment of what is available to be seen. The soldier is not a photographic machine. He is not a camera. He registers, so to speak, only those few items that he is predisposed to register and not a single thing more. Do you understand this? So I am saying to you that after a battle each soldier will have different stories to tell, vastly different stories, and that when a was is ended it is as if there have been a million wars, or as many wars as there were soldiers.

~ Tim O'brien

Tim O'brien Battle Soldiers Vietnam War

The battle fever. He had never thought to experience it himself, though Jamie had told him of it often enough. How time seemed to blur and slow and evenstop, how the past and the future vanished until there was nothing but the instant, how fear fled, and thought fled, and even you body. You don't feel your wounds then, or the ache in your back from the weight of the armor, or the sweat running down into your eyes. You stop feeling you stop thinking, you stop being you, there is only the fight , the foe, this man and then the next and the next and the next, and you know they are afraid and tired but you're not, you're alive, and death is all around you but their swords move so slowly, you can dance through them laughing. Battle fever. I am half a man and drunk with slaughter, let them kill me if they can!

~ George R.r. Martin

George R.r. Martin Battle Tyrion Lannister War

The battle had been as hideous as you might expect between one side who were simply not afraid to die and another who regarded death as merely a door to the eternal life.

~ Paul Hoffman

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About a week after they had come back, a load of mail came to the island. They were the first letters the men had received in several weeks, and for a night it relieved the changeless pattern of their lives. One of the infrequent rations of beer was given out the same night, and the men finished their three cans quickly, and sat about without saying very much. The beer had been far too inadequate to make them drunk; it made them only moody and reflective, it opened the gate to all their memories, and left them sad, hungering for things they could not name.

~ Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer Drinking War

If the war had a noble purpose, it was this - to end the inhumanity those photographs showed. While India rarely spoke about its imperative as the moral one, and few people steeped in realpolitik can shed their cynicism when a politician speaks in moral terms, and the intervention certainly suited India's strategic interests, the fact remains that in the annals of humanitarian interventions, few were as swift, successful, purpose-driven and with humanitarian goals as the Indian intervention to liberate Bangladesh. India went in when it was attacked, and left before its troops became unpopular.

~ Salil Tripathi

Salil Tripathi 1971 Bangladesh India Pakistan War

Everything is touched by the holy when it is in the presence of death.

~ Karl Marlantes

Karl Marlantes Death Holy Spirit War

War, misery, and death spared no soul, and took pity on no family.

~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

Sherrilyn Kenyon Death Misery War

A woman wearing a half hijab sat on a dirty rag. I could see her toes through her ripped shoes. A baby cried in her arms. She opened her palm to me, saying, “We have no home. Please help me and my baby. God will bless you.” I noticed her broken teeth. My heart sank; I turned my face to the other side. My God! If I turned to every misery around me, I would be crying rivers on the street.

~ Sarah Salem

Sarah Salem Beggers Hunger Misery War

There were people who gave everything they had to the war because it was the last war and by winning it we would remove war like a thorn from the flesh of the world and there wouldn't be any more such horrible nonsense.

~ John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck Nonsense War Winning

I can see the little girl, the face of the little girl. And as much as people say that they don't care about these people and all that, I don't care about these people - but I do, at the same time, if that makes any sense. They don't want to help themselves, they're blowing us up, yeah, that hurts, but it also hurts to know that I've seen a girl that's as old as my little brother watch me shoot somebody in the head. And I don't care if she's Iraqi, Korean, African, white - she's still a little girl. And she watched me shoot somebody.

~ David Finkel

David Finkel Army Girl Guns Iraq Marines Shooting Soldiers War

It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk. Leaves were never such an intense and iridescent green; sunlight glinted on flower-studded meadows as the Germans encircled the Maginot Line and overran not only France but Belgium and Holland. Birdsong filled the air in the lull between bursts of gunfire and accompanied the fleeing refugees who blocked the roads. It was as though the weather was preparing a glorious requiem for the death of Europe.

~ Eva Ibbotson

Eva Ibbotson Europe Summer War Wwii

If the bro army and sky army broke into war, I would die from the chose to fight for.

~ Sebastian Loving

Sebastian Loving Die War

If you don’t die screaming in this war, then you’re fuckin’ doing it wrong. At least I’m fucking doing it right.

~ Daniel H. Wilson

Daniel H. Wilson Die Screaming War

The street is no longer measured by meters but by corpses ... Stalingrad is no longer a town. By day it is an enormous cloud of burning, blinding smoke; it is a vast furnace lit by the reflection of the flames. And when night arrives, one of those scorching howling bleeding nights, the dogs plunge into the Volga and swim desperately to gain the other bank. The nights of Stalingrad are a terror for them. Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure.

~ Max Hastings

Max Hastings Endurance Russia Stalingrad War Wehrmacht Wwii

Garahel always used to say that heroism was just another word for horror, and maybe a worse one. A hero always feels that he has to do what's right. Sometimes that leads to tormenting himself with doubt long after the deed is done.

~ Liane Merciel

Liane Merciel Heroes War

Far to our left I could see a commercial airliner on final approach to Soekarno-Hatta. Far to our right I could see the outline of tall city buildings. The imagery was hard to ignore. In the midst was an impoverished world filled with dangerous radicals. Some believed it was God’s will to crash airplanes into buildings. Some recruited children to self-detonate on buses and in coffee shops. It must be incredibly difficult to hold fast to hope when you live in such a world. It’s also hard to keep faith with humanity when religious ideology is used as an impetus for war. But I also believe that for every war there is a hero … and for me, Jakarta will always be Indira’s city.

~ Tucker Elliot

Tucker Elliot Heroes Jakarta Terrorism War

Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.

~ George R.r. Martin

George R.r. Martin Heroes Inspirational Life Villains War

No war is ever glorious. Heroes are usually dead. Besides, they rarely turn into heroes because they are super-humans, but because of circumstances.

~ Aleksandr Voinov

Aleksandr Voinov Heroes Heroism War

There’s no glory in this whole shit. No war is ever glorious. Heroes are usually dead. Besides, they rarely turn into heroes because they are super-humans, but because of circumstances.Heroes rarely think. Heroes just act. So, all this is, is a stage for glory, small, personal and up to each one of us.

~ Aleksandr Voinov

Aleksandr Voinov Act Heroes War

They were dealt with as in war, and they naturally employed the means that were used against them.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy Political Activism Political Terrorism Prisoners Terrorism War

DB: There's a lot of talk about terrorism. In fact, it's become almost an obsession for the media in the United States. But it's a very narrow definition of terrorism.AR: Yes. It completely ignores the economic terrorism unleashed by neoliberalism, which devastates the lives of millions of people, depriving them of water, food, electricity. Denying them medicine. Denying them education. Terrorism is the logical extension of this business of the free market. Terrorism is the privatization of war. Terrorists are the free marketeers of war - people who believe that it isn't only the state that can wage war, but private parties as well.If you look at the logic underlying an act of terrorism and the logic underlying a retaliatory war against terrorism, they are the same. Both terrorists and governments make ordinary people pay for the actions of their governments. Osama bin Laden is making people pay for the actions of the US state, whether it's in Saudi Arabia, Palestine, or Afghanistan. The US government is making the people of Iraq pay for the actions of Saddam Hussein. The people of Afghanistan pay for the crimes of the Taliban. The logic is the same.Osama bin Laden and George Bush are both terrorists. They are both building international networks that perpetrate terror and devastate people's lives. Bush, with the Pentagon, the WTO, the IMF, and the World Bank. Bin Laden with Al Qaeda.

~ Arundhati Roy

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And a strange, deadly war is raging around the world. Yet, each person who has lost a loved one surely knows secretly, deeply, that no war, no act of revenge, no daisy-cutters dropped on someone else’s loved ones or someone else’s children, will blunt the edges of their pain or bring their own loved ones back. War cannot avenge those who have died. War is only a brutal desecration of their memory.

~ Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy Death Peace Terrorism War

How could you have a war on terrorism when war is terrorism?

~ Kenneth Eade

Kenneth Eade Terrorism War War Or Terrorism

Invisible violence in Pakistan, violence against brown people, ongoing violence in Iraq — that's got to be quantified in the same way as the cinematic glamorous violence that happens in recognisable cities.

~ Russell Brand

Russell Brand Iraq Iraq War Pakistan Political Commentary Politics Terrorism Trews War

We obviously don’t live in a perfect world. If we did, then my dad would never have volunteered for Vietnam so he could use the GI Bill to pay for college, Uncle Google would have more important things to do than searching for eight hundred million reasons why our schools suck, and I wouldn’t be at an education leadership conference in Jakarta because there’d be no need for it … right?

~ Tucker Elliot

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The [Israelis] believed - they were possessed of an absolute certainty and conviction - that 'terrorists' were in Chatila. How could I explain to them that the terrorists had left, that the terrorists had worn Israeli uniforms, that the terrorists had been sent into Chatila by Israeli officers, that the victims of the terrorists were not Israelis but Palestinians and Lebanese?

~ Robert Fisk

Robert Fisk Terrorism War

A common strand appeared to unite these conflicts, and that was the advancement of a small coterie’s concept of American interests in the guise of the fight against terrorism, which was defined to refer only to the organized and politically motivated killing of civilians by killers not wearing the uniforms of soldiers. I recognized that if this was to be the single most important priority of our species, then the lives of those of us who lived in lands in which such killers also lived had no meaning except as collateral damage. This, I reasoned, was why America felt justified in bringing so many deaths to Afghanistan and Iraq, and why America felt justified in risking so many more deaths by tacitly using India to pressure Pakistan.

~ Mohsin Hamid

Mohsin Hamid International Conflict Politics Terrorism War

War is legitimized state-sponsored terrorism in a grand scale.

~ Newton Lee

Newton Lee Terrorism War

Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.

~ Glenn Greenwald

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You stay in the war because it would be shameful to stay out of it. An then grief seizes you and hold its grip till anger has turned you into a soldier.

~ Erri De Luca

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