127 quotes found
“If you can't experience the humanity of people who don't look like you, you're not civilized enough to be an officer of the peace.”
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”
“My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I attack.”
“The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.”
“In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.”
“1. Most wars are asymmetrical or irregular.2. In these wars, the guerrillas/irregulars/insurgents do not aim for military victory.3. You can not defeat these groups by killing lots of their members...”
“Whatever the challenge, never quit, never give up, never surrender.”
“We don't all make it out the other side, not all of us. But somewhere, there's the click of a pen, a proud signature, a father's hand on a young man's shoulder, and we reload. That's the sound of o...”
“War creates many strange juxtapositions, perhaps none stranger than this: men who are doing their utmost to kill other men can transform in a split second into lifesavers. Soldiers who encounter a ...”
“the military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its totality.”
“For some twenty years the window that opened at the end of the Cold War has been allowed to hang flapping in the wind. It is high time that the five nuclear-weapon states take seriously their commi...”
“The era of revolution by military means produced a greater degree of desperation and frustration. This was brought to an end by the people.”
“Like I don't have anything better to do than think about you every minute you're gone?" "Every minute?" He smiled a little.”
“War is hell and waiting is hell and war is waiting.”
“Foods the killer. The clock starts as soon as the troops are on the ground. You wouldnt believe how fast they consume what theyre carrying, and then if I dont get them more, if I dont find them mo...”
“Ive come to accept the voices in my head I just wish they didnt spit when they talk.”
“What you mons making all the racket about? You wake me again and Ill put the voodoo hex on you. All you only call me Tuberculosis behind my back now. You want the real thing? Sergeant "T. B" Tinker...”
“Yet if he had been asked if he were happy He would have admitted readily enough that he was uncomfortable, that he was cold, and badly fed, and venomous; that his clothes were in rags, and his feet...”
“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
“These cumbersome vehicles were as convenient as if dinosaurs had survived to be used by cowboys for driving cattle”