If in fact your time to be called before God, you typically won't know it. Sometimes you will, and these are the hardest of times: When the blood pours from your nose and down your throat, clogging it, causing you to spit and gag. You heave for breath in the smoke and dust. Your equipment seems to suffocate you. You wipe the salty sweat and grime from your eyes, only to realize that it is blood, either yours or that of the enemy. You would stand, but you can't move your legs. You grasp the open, gaping wounds in your body, trying not to pass out from the pain. You feel the anger thinking of the loved ones you will never see again, and losing your life infuriates your soul. You rage to get to your feet and grab for a weapon, any weapon. Regardless of your race, culture, or religion, you want to die standing, fighting like a warrior, an American, so others won't have to. For those looking for a definition, this is the price of freedom.
Rusty BradleyTags: inspirational freedom war death warrior army-in-afghanistan
People talk about history and things like slavery, genocide, and religious persecution as horrors that happened in the past because we were ignorant. But nothing's changed. We still hate what we don't understand.
J. Matthew NespoliTags: fear war hatred prejudice ignorance crime bigotry
Only when we learn to value the differences among us can we achieve the true spirit of humanity.
Charles S. WeinblattTags: politics equality justice philosophy war psychology prejudice attitude bigotry sociology
Every form of human conflict may be reduced to precisely the same pattern of mental events. We are all totalitarian despots over our own thoughts, bound to keep our minds in complete control. Control requires security. Security demands war. All war is the macrocosmic residue of neural synapses struggling to maintain their rhythm.
Bō JinnTags: war psychology conflict
But I won’t watch them go to war again. I’ve been to war, you know, to save civilization from the reptile hordes. I bled for it, I saw friends and other men die for it. And then I watched men like you piss it away again, the civilization we’d saved, in squabbles over a few hundred square miles of territory and what language the people get to speak there, what color their skin and hair is and what kind of religious horseshit they get crammed down their throats.
Richard K. MorganIt was called the Smiling War because it left so many skulls, white and grinning, in the fields.
Stefan BachmannTags: war smiling creepy skulls
Nobody wins wars. Generals plan battles to be swift and decisive. When they are not, the aim is to end the conflict less defeated than your opponent.
Steph BennionTags: war
You feel guilty. You wonder why him and not me, then you're glad it was him and not you, then you feel guilty. Soldiers live. And wonder why.
Glen CookWe were still young enough to remember the cubist architecture of the piles of corpses we had seen during the war.
George KonrádThere is no sanctity. This is the downfall of innocence.
Nadège RichardsTags: innocence war dystopia downfall end-of-world no-sanctity
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