Whenever and wherever men have engaged in the mindless slaughter of animals (including other men), they have often attempted to justify their acts by attributing the most vicious or revolting qualities to those they would destroy; and the less reason there is for the slaughter, the greater the campaign for vilification.
Farley MowatStichwörter: animal-rights war justification destroy
The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.
Huey P. NewtonStichwörter: politics war fate anarchy revolution resignation revolutionaries
...all the horrors of war are soon forgotten in the pomp and circumstance of show and parade.
James Henry GoodingStichwörter: war
He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard.
Gabriel García MárquezStichwörter: war
Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
Alice WalkerStichwörter: war
Take the glamour out of war! I mean, how the bloody hell can you do _that_? Go and take the glamour out of a Huey, go take the glamour out of a Sheridan...Can _you_ take the glamour out of a Cobra, or getting stoned at China Beach? It's like taking the glamour out of an M-79, taking the glamour out of Flynn." He pointed to a picture he'd taken, Flynn laughing maniacally ("We're winning," he'd said), triumphantly. "Nothing the matter with _that_ boy, is there? Would you let your daughter marry that man? Ohhhh, war is _good_ for you, you can't take the glamour out of that. It's like trying to take the glamour out of sex, trying to take the glamour out of the Rolling Stones." He was really speechless, working his hands up and down to emphasize the sheer insanity of it.
"I mean, you _know_ that it just _can't be done!_" We both shrugged and laughed, and Page looked very thoughtful for a moment. "The very _idea!_" he said. "Ohhh, what a laugh! Take the bloody _glamour_ out of bloody _war!
I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?
William ShakespeareStichwörter: war
The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely the bed they self-exhaust each other on.
William FaulknerStichwörter: war
not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo,
The hundred
Stichwörter: war
Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
Walt WhitmanStichwörter: war
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