In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down.
Kristina McMorrisTag: inspirational god war faith world-war-ii philosophy-religion japanese-fiction
The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love.
Kristina McMorrisTag: war loss mourning tragedy world-war-ii drama grief
The line between him and the enemy had simultaneously blurred and solidified. Somehow, while perhaps it shouldn't have, this thought provided a strange sense of peace.
Kristina McMorrisTag: wisdom philosophy peace war world-war-ii japanese-fiction
It's all very well for us to sit here in the west with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate the sovereignty of another state. But if the effect of that is to bring people in that country economic and political freedom, to raise their standard of living, to increase their life expectancy, then don't rule it out.
Niall FergusonTag: war isolationism sovereignty noninterventionism interventionism realpolitik humanitarian-intervention
This new war, like the previous one, would be a test of the power of machines against people and places; whatever its causes and justifications, it would make the world worse. This was true of that new war, and it has been true of every new war since...
I knew too that this new war was not even new but was only the old one come again. And what caused it? It was caused, I thought, by people failing to love one another, failing to love their enemies.
Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world.
Erich Maria RemarqueTag: war
One hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful, subduing the other's military without battle is the most skillful.
Sun TzuMawdryn stared at the Brigadier with such a look of pain and longing. For a moment the old soldier's mind went back thirty-five years to his first taste of action as a young lieutenant in Palestine, with his platoon badly shot up by terrorists, and he remembered the mangled conscript who screamed at the officer to take his rifle and kill him.
Peter GrimwadeTag: war doctor-who brigadier-lethbridge-stewart
Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.
Robert JordanBefore you leave here, Sir, you’re going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.
Philip CaputoTag: boys war americans teenagers cruel brutality teenage brutal
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