The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.
Jeffrey EugenidesMay God have mercy for my enemies because I won't.
George S. Patton Jr.Tags: war
He asked, 'Croesus, who told you to attack my land and meet me as an enemy instead of a friend?'
The King replied, 'It was caused by your good fate and my bad fate. It was the fault of the Greek gods, who with their arrogance, encouraged me to march onto your lands. Nobody is mad enough to choose war whilst there is peace. During times of peace, the sons bury their fathers, but in war it is the fathers who send their sons to the grave.
Tags: inspirational war
Stood in firelight, sweltering. Bloodstain on chest like map of violent new continent. Felt cleansed. Felt dark planet turn under my feet and knew what cats know that makes them scream like babies in night.
Looked at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and God was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves, go into oblivion. There is nothing else.
Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose. This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It’s us. Only us. Streets stank of fire. The void breathed hard on my heart, turning its illusions to ice, shattering them. Was reborn then, free to scrawl own design on this morally blank world.
Was Rorschach.
Does that answer your Questions, Doctor?
Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
Audre LordeTags: humanity war conflict battle dehumanization endless
There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.
Roger ZelaznyTags: war civilization culture
The use of force is always an answer to problems...[It] isn't an attractive answer, though.
David DrakeTags: war
War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
J.R.R. TolkienI'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
George S. McGovernTags: peace war death youth battle anti-war old-men soldiers
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert EinsteinTags: wisdom future war albert-einstein
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