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Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected.
Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries.
A sovereign of high character and intelligence must be able to know the right man, should place the responsibility on him, and expect results.
All the Democrats do is bicker. They're not concerned about the war or the fate of the United States of America. They're desperate characters.
Order or disorder depends on organisation and direction; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on tactical dispositions.
Reconstruction is the great black hole that remains to be filled. Even experts on the Civil War don't really understand its full significance.
Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.
We find ourselves in what I consider to be the most challenging, difficult, threatening time since World War II because of this War on Terror.
I started to read as obsessively about Star Wars as I once did about Kant - and still do about behavioral economics and behavioral psychology.
Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.
Everything can be taken from you in a second, but the human spirit is so strong. War can teach you so much about evil, and so much about good.
Sooner or later the world will have to return to the good old days when we fought wars and killed people the old-fashioned way, one at a time.
Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars...we lost all three of them and for the same reason-hubris.
The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.
Alexander III of Macedon is known as Alexander the Great because he killed more people of more different kinds than any other man of his time.
The American way of war is to build an army, then another, then a third, while building fleets. If the war is still on at that point we smash.
There is no doubt that the course and character of the feared 'European war'... will become the first world war in the full sense of the word.
You cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things now, they are a part of everyday demeanor.
I think we put our children at an enormous disadvantage by not educating them in war, by not letting them understand about it at an early age.
In war, three-quarters turns on personal character and relations; the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter.
War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people.
The poets who have written the best poems about war seem to be the poets whose countries have experienced an invasion or vicious dictatorships.
Music plays a huge role in the movie. The music in Star Wars, I can't imagine what the movie would have been like without it. It made the film.
There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
We're saying to anyone who dares to attack us, Do not do it, you couldn't win, the result would be devastating! I think you're saying the same.
Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.
Imagine if the United States, in its war against Hitler, had said to Stalin: we don't want your support until you make your country democratic.
All I know, is that I feel extremely blessed to be on TV. Its a hard job, but real life is harder. Truth be told, playgrounds can be war zones.
Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.
I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth.
What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
The current oil crisis has not been produced by the oil companies. It is a result of governmental mismanagement exacerbated by the Mideast war.
I did do a war movie, 'Windtalkers.' That was a lot of action. But once you've done one big action/war movie, you don't need to do another one.
All that is good in Heaven and on Earth is born of love. This war is not just. This war is not good. Love is the only thing worth fighting for.
So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.
Wars are not caused by the buildup of weapons. They are caused when an aggressor believes he can achieve his objectives at an acceptable price.
For this, deep waters whelm the fruitful lea, Wars ravage, famine wastes, plague withers, nor Shall cease till men have chosen the better part.
We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere.
I'm not sure Americans are hesitant to do this again - to fight another war, because it looked to them like a courageous and terrific endeavor.
Andrew Saul is John Hall in a business suit. He's wrong on the war, on national security, immigration, abortion. He's Sue Kelly all over again.
Winning the war on terrorism will also require a level of moral clarity that can provide a vision for struggling people and nations everywhere.
The right wing in this country is waging a war against women, and let me be very clear, it is not a war that we are going to allow them to win.
People regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, - about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them.
From now on, we're home schooling you. Whatever we don't know, you don't know. When did the Korean War start? I don't know, and neither do you!
If Nightcloud were a gentle, loving cat like Leafpool, or feisty and warmhearted like Squirrelflight, it would be easier to feel sorry for her.
At the age of 9, I read David Copperfield by Dickens. At 14, I read War and Peace by Tolstoy. They're both books I have reread regularly since.
Leonid Breznev was an old man and despite his own military experience in World War II, he on the other hand was not very close to the military.