A man without equals is a dangerous man indeed. He must exercise the most difficult of attributes, restraint.
Daniel McHughTag: fantasy warfare magic epic-fantasy wizards-of-waverly-place
(Evil people) do not believe in forgiveness. Their transgressions are either punished or not punished. That is the only result that matters.
Daniel McHughTag: fantasy warfare magic wizards epic-fantasy
Why all this death?
You might as easily ask ‘Why all this life?’.
Tag: fantasy warfare magic wizards epic-fantasy
Those of strong character and training are chosen by fate. They cannot help but rise to the forefront when their nations are troubled.
Daniel McHughTag: fantasy warfare magic wizards epic-fantasy
War, they say, is the answer of those who have no arguments left.
Andrew AshlingTag: war warfare answers diplomacy arguments
The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.
Friedrich NietzscheLovers and warriors are not bound by the rules of fair play.
Wayne Gerard TrotmanTag: love war romance warfare rules lovers fair-play warriors chivalry restrictions
This time it is not a simple, understandable war, within the same culture. This time it is an assault of the animal world upon the house of the human being. I don’t know what you saw in Africa and Italy, but I know what I saw in Russia and Poland. We made a cemetery a thousand miles long and a thousand miles wide. Men, women, children, Poles, Russians, Jews, it made no difference. It could not be compared to any human action. It could be compared to a weasel in a henhouse. It was as though we felt that if we left anything alive in the East, it would one day bear witness against us and condemn us. And, now, we have made the final mistake. We are losing the war
Irwin ShawWhen I went into the Army, I made up my mind that I was putting myself at the Army's disposal. I believe in the war. That doesn't mean I believe in the Army. I don't believe in any army. You don't expect justice out of an army, if you're a sensible, grown-up human being, you only expect victory. And if it comes to that, our Army is probably the most just one that ever existed. . . . I expected the Army to be corrupt, inefficient, cruel, wasteful, and it turned out to be all those things, just like all armies, only much less so than I thought before I got into it. It is much less corrupt, for example, than the German Army. Good for us. The victory we win will not be as good as it might be, if it were a different kind of army, but it will be the best kind of victory we can expect in this day and age, and I'm thankful for it.
Irwin ShawHorror would not annoy a soldier any more than the sight of a hammer annoys a carpenter. It is sentimental to pretend that horror is not the tool of the soldier, just as the hammer is the tool of the carpenter. We live off death and the threat of death and we must take it calmly and use it well.... Eventually I came to enjoy killing, as a pianist enjoys the Czerny which keeps his fingers limber for the Beethoven.
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