Quotes About Conflict

I'm still staring at that irritating NVA flag flapping in a wet breeze that blows over the river when the lull ends as it usually does in Hue. People resume dying.

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Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge

You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.

Caleb shook his head. "No, they

A decision has been called for. The Nodders sit paralyzed. The Men crouch in their various holes. Tradition and Revolution, having spoken, perch high and unflinching. Fear and Loathing quietly cha-cha down the table's length. A distant referee's whistle.

young men should not fight in old men's wars

He too had been taken away from his home. He too had been put into the service of another without his consent. He too had been sent to a foreign country far from his native parts. He too had been forced to fight against other slaves of his own kind in a strange place.

You plan the wars you masters of men plan the wars and point the way and we will point the gun.

When armies begin to move and flags wave and slogans pop up watch out little guy because it's somebody else's chestnuts in the fire not yours.

This is a war and war is hell and what the hell and so to hell with it.

Somewhere it is being prepared.Somewhere deep in the heart of Germany the shell is being made.Some German girl is polishing it right now polishing it and cleaning it and fitting the charge into it. It glistens in the factory light and it has a number and the number is mine. I have a date with the shell. We shall meet soon.

Please all you guys who want to fight to preserve our honor let us know what the hell honor is. Is it American honor for the whole world we're fighting for? Maybe the world doesn't like it. Maybe the South Sea Islanders like their honor better.

Before a war, military science seems a real science, like astronomy. After a war it seems more like astrology.

Mary the Canary lives in a cloud of perfume and colours. She's an auxiliary nurse by day and a country and western singer by night: bed pans and power ballass. She's so glamorous she makes Mrs Hart look plain. She is the other woman and I'm bring trained to hate her even though I've never met her.

Her husband's foot touches hers, she pulls her foot away. Terrible to flinch from what you once, briefly, loved, or thought you did, or wanted to think you did. But are shackled to, regardless, for life.

They are being driven by a psychopathic Indian apparently bent on killing them all, overtaking on blind rises, racing some other bus to settle an old score, hurtling into corners without slowing down.

The distinction between Trade and Warfare is seen only by those who have no experience of either.? -Heironymo Sondar, House Sondar

Aleuton sat back and sighed. 'Eight days ago. They're getting hammered. Twenty-two engines, that's all Macaroth allowed us to keep here as a standing defence. The enemy has at least seven times that power.' He reached over and picked up a sheaf of black-edged papers. 'You see these? Death notices. Eight of them. Eight engines dead. What does that tell you?

Dorn shook out his shoulders, and raised his sword and shield. 'Try me,' he said. They rushed him.

The distinction between trade and warfare is seen only by those who have no experience of either.

Never argue with a gun-cutter, [...]

Truth is amoral. So you said, but in serving your fine truth, invader, you make yourself immoral.