Quotes About War

But whenever the War Department supplies the funding, part the curtains and you'll see the needs of conflict masquerading as the needs of science.

every day—every twenty-four-hour rotation of Earth—people kill and get killed in the name of someone else's conception of God, and that some people who do not kill in the name of God, kill in the name of needs or wants of political dogma.

World, they have taken the small children like butterflies and thrown them, beating their wings, into the fire--

Without women, there would be perpetual war and chaos. With them, there was only chaos.

The American dream was not supposed to look like this, and when men went off the war, too often other men came in the night to the bedroom at the back of the long, narrow trailers. In fact, I had lived there and had gone off to war, and someone took of my place in the bed and took of my young wife. But that was few wars ago, and so much has happened since , that the only lingering bitterness left is that the bastard also took my dog.

Cursed are the peacemakers for they make the next war harder than the last.

The first casualty of war is the truth.

ATTF) represented in this novel is based on the actual Joint Terrorism Task Force, though I have taken some literary license where necessary. The Joint Terrorism Task Force is an organization of dedicated, professional, and hardworking men and women who are in the front line in the war

I trust you'll both keep in mind the political considerations that may arise as a result of this incident." Alevy stood. "As a political affairs officer, that will be foremost in my mind, sir. Foremost." "Splendid. Colonel Hollis?" Hollis remained seated and didn't reply. "Colonel?" Hollis said to Banks, "Once I bombed only politically approved targets. We lost the war.

Where have all the young men gone? Gone to soldiers, every one.

You can always tell a police state, or a country at war, by how government vehicles move

Hollis said to Banks, "Once I bombed only politically approved targets. We lost the war.

When I was in boarding school, which is English-run, I read a very beautiful passage---something that George VI said in his Christmas message to the English people, in the darkest year of the war, 'Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown. And he replied, Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a knownew way.

The short-timers, who'd gone through hell without even a small pee in their pants, were all jittery that something was going to happen before they boarded the freedom bird home. I mean, after you've cheated death for so long, you become paranoid, sure that death had just remembered you were leaving.

Depression, the war, and the ninety-percent tax rates of the forties and fifties, there was less and less of this paper, and it finally vanished as mysteriously as it had first appeared.

one of Jack's informative T-shirts: "Join The Army, See The World, Meet New People And Kill Them.

We weren't going to win the war on terrorism until we won the war of the words.

Every veteran since the first war got fucked big-time. Maybe you should stop feeling sorry for yourself. There's no war long enough or bad enough to mess up your head as bad as you messed it up yourself.

You risked your life once in a war that had enough bombing limitation rules to make sure you didn't hurt anyone but yourself.

When you and I are dead, and all the rest of us who served in the last war, in all the countries," she said, "there'll be a chance of world peace. Not till then.

People who spent the war in prison camps have written a lot of books about what a bad time they had, she said quietly, staring into the embers. They don't know what it was like, not being in a camp.

So let them pass, small people of no great significance, caught up and swept together like dead leaves in the great whirlwind of the war.

defence on the Irene.

after all that I had read during the night. Even into this quiet place the war had reached like the tentacle of an octopus and had touched this girl and brought about her death. Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it's all over.