No War Quotes
General Peckem even recommends that we send our men into combat in full-dress uniform so they'll make a good impression on the enemy when they're shot down".
In a middle of a war a single doubt about what you are fighting for could mean death.
I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy. ... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.
Vengeance is pointless, but certain men do not have a place in the world we sought to construct
Vengeance is pointless, but certain men did not have a place in the world we sought to construct
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.
Engagement can be a commitment to love or a declaration of war. One must enter every battle without hesitation, willing to fully engage the enemy until death do you apart.
To be a strong and empathetic person always requires us to trust that God will send angels to the people's heart we tried to reach, but couldn't.
On bad days you wonder, ‘Why not just back off from the war and lead a quiet metalife?
Everyone was important during the war. Everyone. We worked together and we won.
Verily, there is no dishonor in death at the hands of a far superior enemy.
"The days are hot and the dead lie unburied. We cannot fetch them all in, if we did we should not know what to do with them. The shells will bury them...
How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
When your mother and your father are having a fight, do you want them to kill each other? Or do you just want them tostop fighting?
Don't start a fight if you can't duke it out. Either win or concede but whatever you do, don't have others fight for you.
He is a true casualty of battle. There's not a physical scar, but look at the man's heart, and his head, and there are scars galore.
It's always funny that you can try and try again to steal all your critics' ammo, predict their responses, but no matter what, they'll still have a water gun stashed somewhere.
We were not told how Alexander the Great was the last person in history to successfully 'pacify' what would become Afghanistan, over 2, 000 years ago.
But I will never ask anyone from our village-from any village in Tlanth-to risk his or her life unless I'm willing to myself.
Those who are skilled in combat do not become angry. The wise win before the fight and the ignorant fight to win.
One should never fight for a country. One should fight, if one has to, for what one believes to be right. A country is only as good as its leading citizens.
There is no honor in sending men to die for something you won't even fight for yourself
The greatest war every fought, and are still fighting, where more people have been defeated and died, is the war within.
Otaguro’s bosom heaved with an ineffable surge of joy. “Every man is fighting, ” he murmured. “Every man.
Never had a decent report in his life!" Tony repeated, hardly able to believe the words. He was thinking, in shocked surprise, that even Tante Bettina did not know how mad the English could be.
God works through people by stirring their hearts and sometimes people never know how they are helping others.
It would be wrong to kill oneself if one did not know exactly the nature of one's eyes.
And yet it's there, we witnessed it being lit. And fires once lit have to burn until they spend themselves or someone extinguishes them, ” Anaxantis said, with some deep regret coating his voice.
When a single cat let loose a war cry, it was an unsettling sound. When two cats suddenly wailed at each other in a similar fashion, it was downright unne
It is in unity that we find strength, in unity we find hope, and in unity we can stand firm as the darkness approaches. Let us stand together – and stand firm – against the many faces of hate.
War doesn’t start with an explosion….It bears far more subtlety. A simmer beneath the surface, as if bringing broth to a boil.
He threw his burning cigarette onto our clean living room floor and ground it into the wood with his boot.We were about to become cigarettes.
(The golden goose has died, my prince turned into a frog, the Kingdom is lost, everyone has turned into stone and I am locked in the tower)
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Tolerance over time breeds resentment. Only through understanding, that comes from the acceptance of one another's differences, shall we find true peace.
The porcelain doll residing in her white-pillared dollhouse was a mirage.