Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.
Dag HammarskjöldThe choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
Martin Luther King Jr.Tags: war
It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
Adlai E. Stevenson IITags: war leadership horses
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Mahatma GandhiTags: politics liberty society war democracy loss totalitarianism fascism
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
Tags: inspirational freedom war ignorance
For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.
Elie WieselTags: war genocide holocaust witness
We're going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us what we're doing, you can say, We're remembering. That's where we'll win out in the long run. And someday we'll remember so much that we'll build the biggest goddamn steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in it and cover it up.
Ray BradburyTags: books history war winning aftermath burial generations grave history-repeating-itself lonely remember
Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing.
Dag HammarskjöldTags: war existential
It wasn't so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly.
Margaret AtwoodTags: war
Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.)
Gaius Julius CaesarTags: war imperialism rome conqueror
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