Quotes About War

the Aleph-Null campaign.

Wars in the past often accelerated social reform, provided technological benefits, even sparked artistic activity. This one, however, seemed tailor-made to provide none of these positive by-products.

In Norman's mind, there were no enemies in war. Just victims. Victims of historical process. Heavy

Her father contended the War was behind it all: any person who showed a shred of talent was sucked up by UNEF;

Unless the war changed radically, our chances of surviving the next three years were microscopic. We were remarkably healthy victims of a terminal disease(...).

V??ná válka je daleko spíÅ¡ dílem odsuzujícím válku, než antimilitaristickým románem

Jsem proti válce, ne proti voják?m.

There had been an army in which that sort of thing was done, a strong quasi-memory told me. The Marxist POUM militia in the Spanish Civil War, early twentieth. You obeyed an order only after it had been explained in detail; you could refuse if it didn't make sense. Officers and men got drunk together and never saluted or used titles. They lost the war. But the other side didn't have any fun.

Acest roman este dedicat lui John W. Campbell, care a respins o povestire fiindc? a considerat c?-i absurd s? scrii despre femei americane care lupt? È™i mor în r?zboi, È™i lui Ben Bova, care a avut alt? p?rere.

If a member of the military can be killed and left in the road, in front of his own house, then who will be safe in this country?

Kim Sun-il died

I tell them that in Finland the first thing men coming back from the front wanted was sex; only after that did they take their skis off.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

There is no greater guilt than the unneccessary war.

We hear very often declarations on the demoralizing tendency of war, but as much as I hate war, I cannot be of the opinion that frequent wars are so corrupting to human nature as long peaces.

I'll tell you something about that war, Billy. With great respect to all the men who died. I don't think it was worth the fighting. Too many good men perished. For what? Is the world a better place for their sacrifice? You know what's going on in Spain and Germany. Has anyone really learned the lessons? It was supposed to be the war to end wars. Do you see any sign of that?

One of the finest snipers that ever graced the mud of the Western Front.

Child of the First War, forgotten by the Second, We called you Metro-land. We laid our schemes, Lured by the lush brochure, down byways beckoned

He pushed his two feet together and shot his right arm in the air before clicking his two heels together and saying in a deep and clear voice as possible the words he said every time he left a soldiers presence. 'Heil Hitler,' he said, which, he presumed, was another way of saying, 'Well, goodbye for now, have a pleasant afternoon'.

I suppose you wish you'd won the war." I raised an eyebrow. "Oh, Mr. Darcy-Witt," I said, as if I were explaining something obvious to a child. "No one wins a war.

Something must be done. Not just for him but for all the Pierrots out there. The Führer will destroy the whole country if he's not stopped. The whole of Europe. He says that he is illuminating the minds of the German people—but no, he is the darkness at the center of the world.

Heil Hitler

What are you playing?" I asked him. "War." "Is that a game?" "It's the best game in the world." "And are you winning?" "I won't know till it's over." "And perhaps not even then.

A person with internalized shame believes he is inherently flawed, inferior and defective. Such a feeling is so painful that defending scripts (or strategies) are developed to cover it up. These scripts are the roots of violence, criminality, war and all forms of addiction.