Quotes About War

Using the confirmation bias, these people will tell you that religion was horrible for mankind by counting deaths from the Inquisition and various religious wars. But they will not show you how many people were killed by nationalism, social science, and political theory under Stalinism or during the Vietnam War. Even

One would suppose that people living through the beginning of WWII had an inkling that something momentous was taking place. Not at all.*

Who gets rewarded, the central banker who avoids a recession or the one who comes to "correct" his predecessors' faults and happens to be there during some economic recovery? Who is more valuable, the politician who avoids a war or the one who starts a new one (and is lucky enough to win)?

One would suppose that people living through the beginning of WWII had an inkling that something momentous was taking place. Not at all.fn3

Esse é o argumento que David Hume, em sua História da Inglaterra,5 apresenta em favor dos pequenos Estados, já que os grandes cedem à sedução da guerra.

Vivevano così, in stretta amicizia, dividendosi il poco che avevano, e senza appoggiarsi a nessun gruppo, senza fare progetti per il futuro, perché non c'era nessun futuro possibile; probabilmente sarebbe scoppiata la guerra, e l'avrebbero vinta gli stupidi; perché gli stupidi, Mario diceva, vincevano sempre.

No nos curaremos nunca de esta guerra. Es inútil. Jamás volveremos a ser gente serena, gente que piensa y estudia y construye su vida en paz. Mirad lo que han hecho con nuestras casas. Mirad lo que han hecho con nosotros. Jamás volveremos a ser gente tranquila.

En cambio, después de la guerra, el mundo se presentaba enorme, ignoto y sin confines. Mi madre sin embargo volvió a vivirlo como pudo. Volvió a vivirlo con alegría, porque tenía un carácter alegre. Su espíritu no sabía envejecer y no conoció nunca la vejez, que consiste en quedarse humillado en un rincón llorando el desmoronamiento del pasado.

They've really begun the war, he said to himself. And all over a word in a dictionary, the ninnies!

Philip's local squabble with Plymouth Colony had mutated into a regionwide war that, on a percentage basis, had done nearly as much as the plagues of 1616–19 to decimate New England's Native population.

During the forty-five months of World War II, the United States lost just under 1 percent of its adult male population; during the Civil War the casualty rate was somewhere between 4 and 5 percent; during the fourteen months of King Philip's War, Plymouth Colony lost close to 8 percent of its men.

Lee wrote, "[and] lament with you that fatal indecision of mind which in war is a much greater disqualification than stupidity or even want of personal courage. . . . Eternal defeat and miscarriage must attend the man of the best parts if cursed with indecision." Washington was as aware as

Midshipman Edward Pellew was in the British boat right behind Arnold's. The American general had escaped, but in his haste he had left behind his stock and buckle, which Pellew took as a keepsake. Years later, by which time Pellew had become the much-decorated admiral Viscount Exmouth, he could not help but wonder how differently the War of Independence might have turned out if on that cold autumn day near the southern tip of Lake Champlain he had captured Benedict Arnold.

The Uranium Club would require a steady, robust supply of the precious liquid. Unfortunately, the world's sole producer, Norsk Hydro's Vemork plant, was far away in an inaccessible valley in Norway, a country whose neutral status in the war made it an unreliable partner.

Since the Allied thrust into France just over a week before, it had become clear that there would be no invasion to free Norway. His countrymen would have to do it themselves.

By spring 1945, the time for action looked imminent. Nazi Germany was collapsing, and the march into Berlin would soon cut off the head of the snake. Throughout Norway, the sabotage of railway transports, ports, ships, and communication lines was hobbling the Wehrmacht and obstructing the removal of its troops to reinforce their defenses inside Germany itself.

Since the day Hitler invaded Poland seven months earlier, it was plain to Tronstad that Norway would not be allowed to maintain the neutral stand it had held during the Great War.

A week after the celebration, on June 28, 187 members of Kompani Linge, with Poulsson and Rønneberg in the lead, paraded in uniform before King Haakon. Of their select unit, fifty-one had died during the war. The king paid tribute to the men and their clandestine work.

The war is singing its last verse, and it requires every effort from all who would call themselves men. You will understand that, won't you?

Making history was never the aim of the Norwegian saboteurs, nor of the British sappers who were sent before them. After the war, the sacrifice of the British Royal Engineers and RAF crews of the ill-fated Operation Freshman was not forgotten. Thirty-seven bodies were recovered and buried at gravesites in Norway. Bill Bray's headstone reads, To live in the hearts of those that loved me is not to die.

For a brief spell, he would try to avoid all war news and think only of science and history and the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake. It would not be easy.

We can lie to ourselves, saying we believe one thing, and sometimes we convince other's it's true, with the hope that by convincing others, we can convince ourselves. Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.

The Bill of Life was signed, the Unwind Accord went into effect, and the war was over. Everyone was so happy to end the war, no one cared about the consequences

She smiles at them as they go by and continues to play, making it clear that this furnace of a place, full of planes that cannot fly, is more than it seems. It is a womb of redemption for every Unwind, and fora ll those who fought the Heartland War and lost - which was everybody.