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Religion is the worst enemy of mankind. No single war in the history of humanity has killed as many people as religion has.
I wrote in the War of Art that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are slaves of desperation.
When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor.
There is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. Both kill innocent people for political reasons.
Youth is the time when hearts are large, And stirring wars Appeal to the spirit which appeals in turn To the blade it draws.
War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist
If the Lord should once more give us sunshine and I do not give you enough fighting, I will never ask you to come out again.
As far as world war goes, there are really only two possibilities: either war provokes revolution, or revolution averts war.
Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.
We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers.
If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.
Christianity has not failed. It is simply that nations have failed to try it. There would be no war in a God-directed world.
The achievements of Labour in the years after the Second World War should never be underestimated, but they are now history.
It amazes me that we spend 20% of the US budget on defense and far-off wars, and not on fighting cancer, disease, and aging.
I can't believe a war against drugs when they have anti-drug commercials on TV all day long followed by This Bud is for you.
This is our fault. My fault as much as the next man's, because even if I was against the war, I didn't do enough to stop it.
...the high roads of the future will be clear, not only for us but for all, not only for our time but for a century to come.
He is cautious. He ought to be. But he is NOT slow. Lee is a phenomenon. He is the only man whom I would follow blindfolded.
Osama Bin Laden is dead? Oh my God, that was so easy! And it only took two trillion dollars, two wars and too many good men.
If a man does not investigate into the matter of bushido daily, it will be difficult for him to die a brave and manly death.
America is not at war with Islam. And it is a mistake and it plays into the hands of the terrorists to act as though we are.
Hate begets hate, violence engenders violence, hypocrisy is answered by hypocrisy, war generates war, and love creates love.
I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.
Can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself?
Once the war against Saddam begins, we expect every American to support our military, and if they can't do that, to shut up.
Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.
It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win the war.
The task of saving the earth's environment must and will become the central organizing principle of the post-Cold War world.
The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.
We have been involved in more wars, on a bilateral basis, since the United Nations was formed than any other country by far.
They're on our right, they're on our left, they're in front of us, they're behind us; they can't get away from us this time.
If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying.
If one thinks only of winning, a sordid victory will be worse than a defeat. For the most part, it becomes a squalid defeat.
Great nations do not succumb through lost wars, but rather through racial decay and the destruction of their internal order.
...war is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.
Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.
Can the foot soldier teach anything important about war, merely for having been there? I think not. He can tell war stories.
Do you care about freedom? Dreams may have inspired it, and wishes prompted it, but only war and weapons have made it yours.
Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.
Why spend 18 hours watching someone else's war, when you know how it comes out? We win, and then have to buy all their cars.
I still believe that even though 'The Empire Strikes Back' is better in innumerable ways than 'Star Wars,' 'Star Wars' wins.
If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the war.
Armies are created to protect an established system, not people. In the future, an educated humanity will not stand for war.
...men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.
It is soldiers who pay most of the human cost. In war it is extraordinary how it all comes down to the character of one man.
It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.