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This is what it means to be in the middle of love, I thought. Being in the middle of love is like being in the middle of a war zone.
It baseball is an American institution and more lasting than some marriages, war, Supreme Court decisions and even major depressions
One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss.
We do not need to divide America over who served and how. I have personally always believed that many served in many different ways.
I don't support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of the civilian refugee.
On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia.
One might have thought that the Cold War's conclusion would have convinced the Left that appeasement of dictators is not profitable.
I grew up watching 'Braveheart' and 'Gladiator.' Those are my 'Star Wars.' They have values and traits about them that I wish I had.
World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.
The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?
According to CNN, Donald Rumsfeld said the war in Iraq did not go according to plan. And President Bush said, 'What? We had a plan?'
In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.
If one of your best friends is making a Star Wars movie, you're not gonna not abuse that privilege. I defy anybody to say otherwise!
[Nuclear weapons] now I think I mentioned around 27,000 and during the Cold War the total global arsenal was on the order of 70,000.
During World War II, the pilot losses were staggering. In some bombing raids, as many as 80% of the planes that left did not return.
I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.
When no one is selfless in a relationship, there is war. When one is selfless, there is peace. When both are selfless, there is joy.
Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city." "There are no limits in war," Volger said, still staring out the window.
There is only one purpose to which a whole society can be directed by a deliberate plan. That purpose is war, and there is no other.
I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone.
The most powerful weapon known is the weapon of blessing. Therefore, a clever person relies on it. He wins with peace, not with war.
Our Navy is now the smallest it's been since, believe or not, World War I. Don't worry. It's going to soon be the largest it's been.
We were such a part of everybody's life in the Second World War. We represented something overseas and at home - a sort of security.
War is and always has been a brutal exercise that destroys lives, families and communities. It is never something for which we hope.
The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
We were too intelligent, too cynical for war. Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid, primitive death.
During my lifetime, America has been constantly waging war against much of humanity: impoverished people mostly, in stricken places.
Do you know, sire, I think that if we live to tell our grandchildren about this war, they will accuse us of making it up.' -Marielle
He walked with long, ungraceful strides, enormous feet adding to the spectacle, and he sat a horse as if leaning into a strong wind.
Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.
So many nurses had turned into emotionally disturbed handmaidens of the war, in their yellow-and-crimson uniforms with bone buttons.
Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
Life brings sorrows and joys alike. It is what a man does with them - not what they do to him - that is the true test of his mettle.
The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.
The market-driven spectacle of war demands a culture of conformity, quiet intellectuals and a largely passive republic of consumers.
For me to speak out against the war in Iraq, you know - most of my fans are lefties anyway, so I don't really get much flack for it.
To perceive victory when it is known to all is not really skilful. Everyone calls victory in battle good, but it is not really good.
There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn't a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why can’t we study peace?
A fighter should not think only of his shete, just because he has a shete in his hand. Everything is a weapon in the warrior's mind.
We will form an army of poor, where every poor will be a soldier and we will win the war against poverty on behalf of their strength.
Raw in the fields the rude militia swarms, Mouth without hands; maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence.
I was totally against the war in Iraq, you can check Reuters, July of oh-four, I was against it, I said you are going to destabilize.
I have never witnessed on any previous occasion such entire disregard of the usage of civilized warfare and the dictates of humanity.
Right here, in this same headquarters, 52 years ago, the Convention that gave the birth certificate to the war on drugs was approved.
The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.
A prince ought to have two fears, one from within, on account of his subjects, the other from without, on account of external powers.
The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.
Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity.
[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy.
What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene, and joyful? O yes!