war

"Speaking of Spinoza he says: "How much of personal timidity and vulnerability does this masquerade of a sickly recluse betray!" Exactly the same may be said of him, with the less reluctance since he h…"

"He had looked forward to making posthumous reports to Illyan. Now he wondered if he was going to live long enough."

"War is always a failure. It means we’ve failed in diplomacy and we’ve failed in talking to one another."

"In fact, as we shall see in the next section, most attempts to explicitly measure military power are mere tabulations of forces of various sorts: the numbers of men underarms, the number of weapons of…"

"There are never any occasions when you need think yourself safe because you wield the weapons of Fortune; fight with your own! Fortune does not furnish arms against herself; hence men equipped against…"

"This was attributed to Trotsky in an epigraph in Night Soldiers: A Novel by Alan Furst but it may actually be a revision of a statement earlier attributed to Trotsky: "You may not be interested in the…"

"In the World War a mere handful garnered the profits of the conflict. At least 21,000 new millionaires and billionaires were made in the United States during the World War. That many admitted their hu…"

"I feel that while we are indeed engaged in a war against terror, it is inadequate and even misleading. If Churchill had informed the country in 1940, we are engaged in a war against bomber aircraft an…"

"His conflict with the Catholic Church arose because deep in his heart Galileo was a believer. There was for him no path of compromise, no way to have separate secular and theological cosmologies. If t…"

"In every disadvantage that a woman suffers at the hands of a man, there is inevitably, in what concerns the man, an element of cowardice. When I say "inevitably," I mean that this is what the woman se…"

"Mattis still saw Iran as the key destabilizing influence in the region. In private, he could be pretty hard-line, but he had mellowed. Push them back, screw with them, drive a wedge between them and t…"

"The question is not whether Total Information Awareness is here to stay; the real question is whether TIA is a one-way street or a two-way street."

"He is a dissimulator, a back-pedaler, a coward, and a self-serving ignoramus. In other words, he’s a politician."

"War is destruction and destruction is easy," Madero said."

"The thing about the Army Corps of Engineers is that they don’t build things very well."

"It will not be long before MahãrãNã Pratãpa SiMha of Mewar becomes renowned as hindu-kula-kamala-divãkara, the Sun which brings bloom to the lotus that is the Hindu nation."

"...her breasts swam towards me like two pink-nosed fish and she let me hold them."

"The man who kan ware a paper collar a hole week and keap, it klean, aint fit for enny thing else."

"My poetry is a declaration of war, not an exordium to defeat. It is not the defeated soldier's drumbeat of despair, but the fighting warrior's will to win. It is not the de-spirited voice of dejection…"

"If Christians give their consent and support to preparedness to wage war with atomic bombs and other weapons of annihilation and devastation, they will thereby repudiate the way of Jesus."