Suppose two men at cards with nothing to wager save their lives. Who has not heard such a tale? A turn of the card. The whole universe for such a player has labored clanking to his moment which will tell if he is to die at that man’s hand or that man at his. What more certain validation of a man’s worth could there be? This enhancement of the game to its ultimate state admits no argument concerning the notion of fate. The selection of one man over another is a preference absolute and irrevocable and it is a dull man indeed who could reckon so profound a decision without agency or significance either one. In such games as have for their stake the annihilation of the defeated the decisions are quite clear. This man holding this particular arrangement of cards in his hand is thereby removed from existence. This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest form of divination. It is the testing of one’s will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select. War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god.
Cormac McCarthyMots clés war
If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you.
Jacqueline CareyWars come and go; politics endure.
Jacqueline CareyTo be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not. It all becomes a question of style.
Albert CamusGenocide, after all, is an exercise in community building.
Philip GourevitchNot that she's a political animal, she's just an ordinary woman, but as a woman she's of the view that you don't bring children into the world to have them shot.
Hans FalladaMots clés politics women children war
When one treats people with benevolence, justice, and righteoousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders'.
Sun TzuForce and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Thomas HobbesEven the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.
Sun TzuMots clés philosophy war thought-provoking
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.
Robert A. HeinleinMots clés history war violence
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