Quotes About War

In wartime a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away.

Or if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it, Making it momentary as a sound Swift as a shadow, short as any dream Brief as the lightening in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth; And ere a man hath power to say "Behold!" The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion.'" "Brava!

In 1950, at Orange, a train full of Far East wounded had been stopped by the Communists who had insulted and struck the men lying on the stretchers. A Paris hospital advertising for blood donors had specified that their contribution would not be used for the wounded from Indo-China. At Marseilles, which could now be seen looming over the horizon, they had refused to disembark the coffins of the dead.

It's always a mere handful of men who account for the masses, and nothing great, alas, has ever emerged from peace, neither a nation- as Amar has just pointed out- nor a great work. Peace has always been the reign of mediocrities, and pacifism the bleating of a herd of sheep which allow themselves to be led to the slaughter-house with defending themselves.

La guerre civile, c'est exactement ça : le triomphe des salauds. On les voit sortir de partout. On s'étonne même qu'il y en ait autant et qu'on ne les remarque pas plus d'habitude.

Les guerres sont toujours une providence pour les criminels. La violence tout à coup devient sainte ; pourvu qu'ils sachent mimer la dévotion, au moins en paroles, licence leur est donnée par un Dieu d'accomplir les infamies dont ils ont longtemps rêvé. (Partie IV Sienne, Ch. 3)

Le pèlerinage est, avec la guerre, la plus ancienne cause du déplacement des hommes.

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

We have war when at least one of the partes to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

Saddam Hussein is a product of Western departments of state and big companies, just as Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco were born of the 'peace' imposed on their countries by the victors of the Great War. Saddam is such a product in an even more Flagrant and cynical way. Because the Iraqi dictatorship proceeds, as do the others, from the transfer of aporias in the capitalist system to vanquished, less developed, or simply less resistant countries.

Deanna Durbin's movies are about innocence and sweetness. They're from a different time and a different place. Outside the movie house, there was Depression, poverty, war, death, and loss. Audiences then were willing to pretend, to enter into a game of escape. No one really thought that the world was like a Deanna Durbin movie, they just wanted to pretend it was for about an hour and a half.

The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.

Nu se murea sub bombele englezilor È™i ale americanilor. Dar se murea încetul cu încetul, din nemâncare, din lips? de aer, din lips? de libertate, se murea pentru c? oamenii nu mai visau. Marea era doar o dung? albastr? în zare, printre palmieri, pe deasupra acoperiÈ™urilor roÈ™ii.

avec ses lourdes pertes humaines, est de toutes les civilisations et de tous les temps. Les religions elles-mêmes sont souvent à l'origine de ces tueries que pourtant elles dénoncent, comme il en fut jadis au temps des croisades et des guerres de Religion, voire, aujourd'hui, de l'islamisme extrême. C'est qu'entre-temps les hommes, poussés par l'immémorial instinct de pouvoir, se sont approprié le fait religieux et en ont fait leur affaire. Au

trop fameux Gott mit uns, aujourd'hui repris par George Bush dans le cadre de sa lutte contre l'« axe du Mal », l'homme justifie ses intentions belliqueuses en utilisant la religion à ses propres fins, et n'hésite pas à déclarer la guerre en son nom. Une pratique mal décelée dans le bouddhisme, encore que ce soit en terre bouddhique que se sera perpétrée, on l'a dit, la folle aventure génocidaire de Pol Pot. Une

Evoking the events of 10 May 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt declared: We all know that books burn. But we know still better that books can never be destroyed by fire. Men die, but books never die. No man and no violence can extinguish their memory. No man and no violence can lock ideas up for ever in a concentration camp. No man and no violence can chase from the world the works that express the eternal struggle of humanity against tyranny. We know that, in this War, books are weapons.

Sabrina Starr was fuming. Her sprained ankle was a disaster. If she didn't rescue the Chinese ambassador from his kidnappers within the next forty-eight hours, discord would spread, countries would fall, and World War III would loom. And here she was stuck in the hospital. "Ms. Starr? I'm Dr. Albert, Ankle Specialist." Sabrina gazed up at the doctor and her heart sang.

Av, sava??n yerini tutan bir etkinlik olarak görülürdü ya da daha sonraki bir tarihten kalma bir metne göre sava?? en iyi ö?reten etkinlikti. Türklerin gözünde sava? ile av hemen hemen e? anlaml?yd? ve genel kural olarak eri?kin say?labilmek için bir insan? öldürmek gerekiyordu, av ba?ar?s? da genellikle buna e? tutulurdu.

When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.

When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.

The best nonfiction book on the war came out in 1988 by a former war journalist, Neil Sheehan. Titled A Bright Shining Lie

The best nonfiction book on the war came out in 1988 by a former war journalist, Neil Sheehan. Titled A Bright Shining Lie, it told in hellish detail of endless American waste and failure. It told of intelligence ignored and wisdom cast aside. The book

Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets.

All there ever seems to be in this world anymore is war and killing, so let's enjoy fellowship and peace here for a little while before we go out into the confusion again.