war

"Most of these who are thrust into combat soon find it impossible to maintain the mythic perception of war."

"Many handis make light warke."

"Mary Augusta Ward at The Victorian Web"

"The measures taken during the war by our military agencies, in restricting the free intercourse among scientists on related projects or even on the same project have gone so far that it is clear that …"

"When the pack is out hunting, the dogs do not fight among themselves."

"Auden is able to set up a We in opposition to the enemy They..."

"Asimov: Battlestar Galactica for instance, started off with twenty to thirty minutes of space battles which looked exactly like air battles in World War I. You could swear that the space ships were su…"

"Beware the ides of March."

"ISIL herded approximately 450−500 women and girls to the citadel of Tal Afar in Ninewa where, two days later, 150 unmarried girls and women, predominantly from the Yezidi and Christian communities, we…"

"The government of Myanmar denied committing any atrocities against the Rohingyas, asserting that many widely reported incidents had been fabricated, but the media generally brushed aside these denials…"

"Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war."

"It is not an opinion that "enhanced interrogation techniques" are torture. It is a legal fact. And it is also a legal fact that the president is a war criminal."

"Here, for the first time, I felt an unshakable conviction that no momentary military advantage — even if such could have been calculated to exist — could have justified this stupendous, careless destr…"

"For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions."

"But success in a military operation always feels short-lived. You shoulder your rifle and move on from there to the next battle."

"When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war."

"After the close call yesterday when you called off the planned military strike on Iran, we remain concerned that you are about to be mousetrapped into war with Iran. You have said you do not want such…"

"A nation is not a complex of wheels, nor a wild horse race, but a stride upward concerted by real men."

"We obey orders, and we don’t ask if the officer is crazy or not!"

"The is right to point to an international movement aimed at the collapse of the United States. He has gone after that threat in the right way and with great energy and vigor, and I applaud the fact th…"