653 quotes found
“How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.”
“Even the king's Erkynguard might have wished to be elsewhere, rather than here on this killing ground where duty brought them and loyalty prisoned them. Only the mercenaries were here by choice. To...”
“Each Javelin round costs $80,000, and the idea that it's fired by a guy who doesn't make that in a year at a guy who doesn't make that in a lifetime is somehow so outrageous it almost makes the war...”
“The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is more a universe than the u...”
“ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred with out a head”
“War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. (pg. 144)”
“We lie under the network of arching shells and live in a suspense of uncertainty. If a shot comes, we can duck, that is all; we neither know nor can determine where it will fall." - All Quiet On Th...”
“...all the horrors of war are soon forgotten in the pomp and circumstance of show and parade.”
“This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.”
“How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.”
“Your blood for mine. If not these, then those. War is the supreme mathematics problem. It strains our skulls, yet we work out the sums, believing we have pressed the most monstrous quantities into ...”
“Bella Swan: Jasper? Are you sure there's nothing I can do to help? Jasper Hale: Well just your presence alone, your scent, will distract the newborns. Their hunting instinct will take over, and dri...”
“Did you see the frightened ones,Did you hear the falling bombs,Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter in the promise of a brave new world unfurlled beaneath the clear blue skies.Good bye...”
“The slaying of multitudes should be mourned with sorrow. A victory should be celebrated with the funeral rite.”
“I shall remain vigilant and unyielding in my pursuit of the enemies of the Coalition.I will defend and maintain the Order of Life as it was proclaim by the Allfathers of the Coalition in the Octus ...”
“not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo,The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.”
“It was necessary that millions of men in whose hands lay the real power -- the soldiers who fired, or transported provisions and guns -- should consent to carry out the will of these weak individua...”
“War, in its fairest form, implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice.”
“You've lived through a lot of wars, I said. "Yes."Do they ever make more sense?"No.”
“...much of modern military tactics is geared toward maneuvering the enemy into a position where they can essentially be massacred from safety. (pg. 140)”
