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Driving your car through deep pools of flood water is a great way of making your car unreliable. Smart people turn around and avoid it.
— Steven Magee
While police officers who blatantly shaft the common people believe that they are God, they are the Devil to those that they wrong.
— Steven Magee
For many people, a western lifestyle equates to living in a toxic home, working a toxic job, eating toxic food, being sick from your thirties onward and eventually dying from preventable disease.
— Steven Magee
The truth of the world is that in every group you will find some good and some bad people - which is why i am keenly aware that no group is ALL bad, just as no group is ALL good.
— Christina Engela
The people who work with solar photovoltaics (PV) tend to be sick, I've worked with many of them. They were showing classic symptoms of Radio Wave Sickness (RWS).
— Steven Magee
Publishing is definitely something you do because you enjoy educating or entertaining people.
— Steven Magee
Most of the time, we see only what we want to see, or what others tell us to see, instead of really investigate to see what is really there. We embrace illusions only because we are presented with the illusion that they are embraced by the majority. When in truth, they only become popular because they are pounded at us by the media with such an intensity and high level of repetition that its mere force disguises lies and truths. And like obedient schoolchildren, we do not question their validity and swallow everything up like medicine. Why? Because since the earliest days of our youth, we have been conditioned to accept that the direction of the herd, and authority anywhere — is always right.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
We're not moments, Megan, you and me. We're events. You say you might not be the same person you were a year ago? Well, who is? I'm sure not. We change, like swirling clouds around a rising sun.
— Brandon Sanderson, Calamity
Observing people. A spark of idea for a story sometimes comes from the simple act of observation.
— Ika Natassa, The Architecture of Love
I all of a sudden got to feeling like talking to people. Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I’m talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean. I’m weird like that.
— Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing
Just imagine the silence in the world, if people talked only what they knew
— Karel Čapek
All single people are not really singleThey all have untold stories behind the scene.
— Ahmed Ali Anjum
A label locks me into a definition that people use to control me. A vision graces me with an idea that serves to release me.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Some people do everything, some do something, many do nothing - which is bad enough - but the worst of the lot are those who break down what others have built.
— Christina Engela, Fearotica: An Anthology of Erotic Horror
Any religion which demands death for other people is itself worthy of nothing less than it expects for others. In fact, it is probably long overdue.
— Christina Engela, Inanna Rising: Women Forged in Fire
The world, I tell you, is bored -- bored now to the explosive pitch. It's bored by all this incessant war preparation. It is bored by aimless violence, now here, now there. It is tired of hatred politics. It's tired of fresh murders every day. It is not indignant, not excited; it is bored. Bored and baffled..."I don't believe a man begins to know anything of politics until he realises the immense menace of mental fatigue, of world-wide mass boredom. It accumulates. It makes the most frightful convulsions and demoralisation possible. It makes them at last inevitable. Nobody wants fundamental changes in a world where hope and interest prevail. Then people accept their careers, settle down to them, rear children. But throw them out of work, in and out and no sense of security, deprive them of bright expectations, regiment them in masses, underfeed them, bore them with organised mass patriotism, and they begin to seep together into a common morass of discontent and impatience. Almost unconsciously..."They're like that now.
— H.G. Wells, The Holy Terror
Rejecting people for who and what they are will not make you a better, more 'righteous' or more 'moral' person - than the other person, or even in your own right - in fact, if that's why you're doing it, it is far more likely to do the opposite.
— Christina Engela, Blachart: Galaxii Series Book 1
The only way a society of diverse people can survive without tearing itself apart over differences in nature is by accepting that ALL people are different, and that no single one of us is more or less deserving of decent treatment, compassion, legal and ethical equality, justice, life, or love, than any other.
— Christina Engela, Autumn Burning: Dreadtime Stories for the Wicked Soul
One frequently hears that there are not enough places for people to go. But where do we not go? We are too many and tread too heavily. (Perhaps the world is to blame for being too small.)
— David M. Carroll, Following the Water: A Hydromancer's Notebook
isn't lying supposed to be a 'sin'? Or is it okay to lie when trying to make people you hate look bad?
— Christina Engela, The Time Saving Agency
Steps can then be taken to slow down the natural progression before it gets started. It doesn't work to allow all the preliminary intimacies and then hope to stop the progression just short of intercourse. Very few people have the willpower to do that.
— James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future
Well, that brings us to the point: There is only one way to protect ourselves from the deadly diseases that stalk the human family. It is abstinence before marriage, then marriage and mutual fidelity for life to an uninfected partner. Anything less is foolhardy and potentially suicidal. Don't let anyone tell you differently. There is no such thing as "safe sex," just as there is no "safe sin." For thousands of years, people have been trying to find ways to disobey the laws of God without suffering the consequences. It can't be done. Scripture tells us that the wages of sin is death, and we'd better believe it!
— James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future
الوقت لا يلئم الجراح، بل الحبtime does not heal wounds, love does
— Wafaa Nowaihed
Indeed, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calculated that 65 million people in the United States now have a sexually transmitted virus, and they will suffer from it for the rest of their lives.
— James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future
people around you are reflections of your own identity.
— Jennifer Pierre
Almost everybody we get together with about a matter, even if it is of the highest importance, is incompetent.
— Thomas Bernhard, Gehen
People use what you want against you... without you knowing it.
— Deyth Banger
When we choose to love people and the wonderful things around us, it always puts us one step above the people who choose not too. There's a peace we'll carry in our hearts. A feeling of being worthy of all situations.
— Ron Baratono
I had two or three faced people, I don't like the feature that they are have a lot of faces, what's bad?You never know which face they are using!
— Deyth Banger
All things die,' she told him. Such a truism, it was the trite utterance of any street-corner philosopher, but coming from Inaspe Raimm it sounded different. 'All things reach the end of their journey, be they trees, insects, people or even principalities. All things die so that others may take their place. To die is no tragedy. The tragedy is dying with a purpose unfulfilled.
— Adrian Tchaikovsky, Salute the Dark
I can't go outside, I know to much to be out there and I had never liked people.
— Deyth Banger
Just love everybody!? Do you love everybody, Karma? Could you love Hitler? Answer me that! Could you love Hitler, huh?""I wonder what would have happened if somebody did, Blue?
— Frank MacDonald, Tinker and Blue
LIFE’S SOFT EDGES‘Tis a truth I will confess that we ofttimes find soft edges –to such a degree, our livesare well manifestof people’s kindliness.
— Tara Estacaan
All people like to be praised as it boosts their self-esteem, keeps them motivated and happy but it also pushes them into the abyss of sham, which is propelled by hypocrisy and sycophancy.
— Balroop Singh
Respect means: even in your absence people speak good of your person
— Constance Friday
A person does not have to be beautiful for you to find them beautiful. That's what love is all about.
— Vanshika Dhyani
If you really want to do something,you will.If not now, Eventually.
— Vanshika Dhyani
True love leaves no room for insecurities.
— Vanshika Dhyani
Its better not to be born than falling in love.
— Nutan Bajracharya
No one is that valuable to plan your future based upon them, because in some point every loyal individual will stab you in the back or in the best situation will just leave you. People have expiration dates. The ones who stay longer become more dangerous.
— kambiz shabankareh, The Last Smile of The Plaster-man
THE BEST people are the good old wrinkled people with a sparkle in their eye, a wink when you walk by or a toothless smile saying you are doing just fine ...
— Robert Wesley Miller
When the going gets tough, people bail. When the going gets easy, people get lazy. Honest, smart, hard work is the way to get results.
— Richie Norton
Do not distance yourself from the people who need you most today, because tomorrow you will need them the most.
— Gift Gugu Mona
There's a calm in my mind in the morning. A peacefulness that feels nice. A two mile walk and prayer, then watering the garden is relaxing. I don't know if we all feel this way, but throughout the day our minds are filled with interaction, most of it unimportant to our natural well being. In the last few years I've tried to be a calmer person in my mind, and found it much easier with my love for Jesus Christ. Rolling with God's grace. Happy day my friends. Blessings.
— Ron Baratono
The prophet is the eye of the people.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I independently produce scientific advancements to share with everyone, and that is over seven billion people!
— Steven Magee
You can make fun of yourself and people will laugh at you. If you’re smart, you’ll end up as a comedian. If you’re not, you’ll end up as a clown.
— Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
spaces that at first may appear to reflect a simple condition are much more complex when the actions of individuals and groups are factored in. These unique patterns of movement through space can and should guide the architecture we build to serve them. For space only becomes truly public when people recognize it and utilize it as such. Great public space cannot be built as much as curated; it is architecture's responsibility to craft space in response to specific needs and unique practices. . . . it is not the space itself that is meaningful; it is the way space facilitates diversity, interaction, and new negotiations that makes it meaningful [David Adjaye, "Djemaa El-Fnaa, Marrakech: Engaging with Complexity and Diversity"].
— Catie Marron, City Squares: Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance of Squares Around the World
Any leadership that is observant and committed to its people, will always find better ways to solve problems.
— Gift Gugu Mona
If people ask me like who I would like to be I will say Like Larry Cohen, his movie with the Phone Booth, blowed my mind.
— Deyth Banger
Do not distance yourself from people who need you most today, because tomorrow you will need them the most.
— Gift Gugu Mona
The Present day optimists invent a lieand the pessimists hide the truth
— irrfan ishaq
I think people need to recognize that those of us who have been so much influenced by violence in the media- in particular pornographic violence- are not some kinds of inherent monsters. We are your sons, and we are your husbands. And we grew up in regular families.
— James C. Dobson
Chilling Tales For Dark Nights, these people or let's say these team is trying to return the fear, the theater... Which so far is great to hear, acting in reading a story and everything one place, just awesome,
— Deyth Banger
History was a way to live extra lives, to cheat the limits of flesh and blood, to roll the rock back from the tomb and free the resurrected dead.
— Tony Hendra, Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul
History was not simply a catalogue of the dead and buried and benighted, but rather a vast new world to be pioneered; ...if you approached the past generously, so to speak—its people as humans, not facts, as modern in their time as we were in ours, who thought and felt as we do, the dead would live again, our equals, not our old-fashioned, hopelessly unenlightened, and backward inferiors. Humanity, to be fully known, had to be seen as changeless as well as ever changing.
— Tony Hendra, Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul
Every person is an entrance to another world.
— Tara Estacaan
You see, dear—I think there are two types of people in the world. Those who divide the world up into two kinds of people... and those who don't.
— Tony Hendra, Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul
The problem you have isn't a delusion of grandeur
—  it's a delusion of insignificance.
It has been my personal experience that the government engages in a wide range of frauds with the common people.
— Steven Magee
Some people are as angry as they seem to be only because it's the safest place to hide from more pain.
— Ashly Lorenzana
Was there even such a thing as normall? People had terrible things behing their faces sometimes. He knew that now.
— Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis
In many cases where one is content to lead a secluded life it is not necessary to say much of one's past, but as a rule something must be said. People have the habit of inquiring—if they are no more than butchers and bakers. By degrees one must account for this and that fact, and it was so here. .
— Theodore Dreiser, Jennie Gerhardt
I like to think that love is like a rose. A rose that is beginning to sprout is like a person feeling love for the first time. It will grow in time as the couples interact and along the way, they may hurt themselves by the thorns of pain and misunderstanding. But it is all worth it to see the rose in full bloom as the two share their true love.What happens after that is unknown. The rose may last forever and create others, or it may wither away and start anew.
— Michelle Goncalves
Police officers are among the most corrupt people that I have encountered in life.
— Steven Magee
YOU are important. You are special. You are loved. GOD has a plan for your life! Find out what it is and you'll experience a depth of fulfillment you never thought possible.
— J.E.B. Spredemann
Take away the people's bread and you get discontent; take away their money and you get anger, but take away their heroes and you get revolution.
— Alex  Jackson, Labaerak
There are some people whose turbulent waves of behaviors will drown you no matter how well you think you can swim.
— Steve Maraboli
When people don't understand the meaning of freedom in their lives, they will continue to live as though they're still oppressed.
— Gugu Mona
People should avoid hatred at all costs, because not only does it affect the haters health; it also prevents them from enjoying the goodness of love.
— Gugu Mona
Never make a judgment on a one sided story because people may tell you what they want you to hear, rather than what you need to hear.
— Gugu Mona
Nigeria is one country, one people and one nation.
— Saminu Kanti
On the way home my father said tiredly he hoped some day I'd realize it was necessary to live with people. I didn't understand him. He said a lot of other things that made me feel sorry for him, because he just couldn't stand up to a situation.
— Dan J. Marlowe, The Name of the Game Is Death
Housing without people, and people without housing.
— Milad Hanna
God created war so that Americans would learn geography.
— Mark Twain
War is what happens when language fails.
— Margaret Atwood
War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.
— Albert Dietrich, Army GI, Pacifist CO: The World War II Letters of Frank and Albert Dietrich
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
— Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
— Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Reference
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?
— Mahatma Gandhi
All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.
— John Steinbeck
War does not determine who is right — only who is left.
— Anonymous
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
— Howard Zinn
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.
— Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?
— Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages 1985-1995: An Exhibition Catalogue
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.
— Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind?
— Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.
— Neil Gaiman, American Gods
It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
— Adlai E. Stevenson II
Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
— Malcolm X
The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
— Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Le diable et le bon dieu
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Stood in firelight, sweltering. Bloodstain on chest like map of violent new continent. Felt cleansed. Felt dark planet turn under my feet and knew what cats know that makes them scream like babies in night.Looked at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and God was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves, go into oblivion. There is nothing else.Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose. This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It’s us. Only us. Streets stank of fire. The void breathed hard on my heart, turning its illusions to ice, shattering them. Was reborn then, free to scrawl own design on this morally blank world.Was Rorschach.Does that answer your Questions, Doctor?
— Alan Moore, Watchmen
War is over ... If you want it.
— John Lennon
All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.
— Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony.
— Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Legion, cuneum formate!’ Reyna yelled. ‘Advance!’ Another cheer on Jason’s right as Percy and Annabeth reunited with the forces of Camp Half-Blood. ‘Greeks!’ Percy yelled. ‘Let’s, um, fight stuff!’ They yelled like banshees and charged. Jason grinned. He loved the Greeks. They had no organization whatsoever, but they made up for it with enthusiasm.
— Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus
I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.
— Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
— Ernest Hemingway
If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected .
— Sun Tzu, The Art of War
How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?
— Howard Zinn
In times of war, the law falls s
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.
— Pierce Brown, Red Rising
The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie. There is no rectitude whatsoever. There is no virtue. As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.
— Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
It is not enough to win a war
—  it is more important to organize the peace.
To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.
— Sun Tzu
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.
— Joseph Heller, Catch-22
No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
— Eleanor Roosevelt, The Wisdom of Eleanor Roosevelt
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
— Albert Einstein
There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.
— Sun Tzu, The Art of War
For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.
— Elie Wiesel
In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes
— Robert Jordan, To the Blight
How come we play war and not peace?""Too few role models.
— Bill Watterson
War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace." - Baba
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony--Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?
— Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.
— Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain.
— Sun Tzu, The Art of War
The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed.""I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self.""You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.
— John Fowles, The Magus
The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.
— Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned...Everything is war. Me say war.That until the're no longer 1st class and 2nd class citizens of any nation...Until the color of a man's skin is ofno more significa...nce than the color of his eyes, me say war. That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race me say war!
— Haile Selassie
It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.
— Terry Pratchett, Jingo
May God have mercy for my enemies because I won't.
— George S. Patton Jr.
When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.
— Jeanne DuPrau, The People of Sparks
We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world
—  and we had to shoot it to pieces.
Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose.
— Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings
And if we burn, you burn with us.
— Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.
— Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue, or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run- Yours is the earth and everything that's in it, And-which is more-you'll be a man my son.
— Rudyard Kipling, If: A Father's Advice to His Son
When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.
— Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!
— William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love.
— Kristina McMorris, Bridge of Scarlet Leaves
War is like a monster," he says, almost to himself. "War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and grows." He's looking at me now. "And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.
— Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
War is sweet to those who have never fought.
— Jess Rothenberg, The Catastrophic History of You and Me
The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical...There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
— Sun Tzu, The Art of War
We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.
— Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
who wishes to fight must first count the cost
— Sun Tzu, The Art of War
There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.
— George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.
— Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
— Alice Walker
He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.
— Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain
The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.
— James Madison
Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
— Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos. 
— Scott Westerfeld, Leviathan
Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'.
— George Orwell
Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?
— Eleanor Roosevelt
One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all.
— Sun Tzu
Mankind must put an end to war - or war will put an end to ma
— John F. Kennedy
Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.
— Chris Hedges
Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
— Audre Lorde
One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror. 
— George W. Bush
How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not prevent this stream of blood being poured out, these torture-chambers in their hundreds of thousands. A hospital alone shows what war is.
— Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
War seems like a fine adventure, the greatest most of them will ever know. Then they get a taste of battle. For some, that one taste is enough to break them. Others go on for years, until they lose count of all the battles they have fought in, but even a man who has survived a hundred fights can break in his hundred-and-first. Brothers watch their brothers die, fathers lose their sons, friends see their friends trying to hold their entrails in after they’ve been gutted by an axe. They see the lord who led them there cut down, and some other lord shouts that they are his now, They take the wound, and when that’s still half-healed they take another. There is never enough to eat, their shoes fall to pieces from marching, their clothes are torn and rotting, and half of them are shitting in their breeches from drinking bad water.If they want new boots or a warmer cloak or maybe a rusted iron half helm, they need to take them from a corpse, and before long they are stealing from the living too, from the small folk whose land they’re fighting in, men very like the men they used to be. They slaughter their sheep and steal their chickens, and from there it’s just a short step to carrying off their daughters too. And one day they look around and realize all their friends and kin are gone, that they are fighting beside strangers beneath a banner that they hardly recognize. They don’t know where they are or how to get back home and the lord they’re fighting for does not know their names, yet here he comes, shouting for them to form up, to make a line with their spears and scythes and sharpened hoes, to stand their ground. And the knights come down on them, faceless men clad in all steel, and the iron thunder of their charge seems to fill the world.And the man breaks.
— George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say 'Shit, it's raining!
— Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
— H. Havelock Ellis
Are you preparing for another war, Plutarch?" I ask."Oh, not now. Now we're in a sweet period where everyone agrees that our recent horrors should never be repeated," he says. "But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction. Although who knows? Maybe this will be it, Katniss.
— Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
Morale was deteriorating and it was all Yossarian's fault. The country was in peril
—  he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling. (Varys)
— George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.
— Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong
The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger.
— Fidel Castro
There are but two types of men who desire war: those who haven’t the slightest intention of fighting it themselves, and those who haven’t the slightest idea what it is. … Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.
— Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.
— Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread. When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out "stop!"When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
— Bertolt Brecht, Selected Poems
A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril. 
— Winston S. Churchill
In War: Resolution,In Defeat: Defiance,In Victory: MagnanimityIn Peace: Good Will.
— Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War
But these weren't the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around--they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don't recognize them for what they are until it's too late.
— Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.
— François Fénelon
Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots.
— Sun Tzu, The Art of War
We don't like to kill our unborn
—  we need them to grow up and fight our wars.
I want to make love, but my hair smells of war and running and running.
— Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
When one treats people with benevolence, justice, and righteoousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders'.
— Sun Tzu
That Shay was in possesion of hand grenades was a comforting thought showed what kind of night this had become.
— Scott Westerfeld, Specials
The War Has Been Declared.Your Ally Been Ensnared.It Is Now Or It Is Never.Break The Code Or Die Forever.Time Is Running OutRunning OutRunning OutTo the Warrior Give My BladeBy His Hand Your Fate Is MadeBut Do Not Forget the TickingOr the Clicking, Clicking, ClickingWhile a Rat's Tongue May Be FlickingWith Its Feet It Does the TrickingFor the Paw and Not the Jaw Makes the Code of ClawTime Is Standing StillStanding StillStanding StillSince the Princess Is the KeyTo Unlock the TreacheryShe Cannot Avoid the Matching or the Scratching, Scratching, ScratchingWhen a Secret Plot is HatchingIn the Naming Is the CatchingWhat She Saw, It Is the FlawOf the Code of ClawTime is Turning BackTurning BackTurning BackWhen the Monster's Blood Is SpilledWhen the Warrior Has Been KilledYou Must Not Ingore the RappingOr the Tapping, Tapping, TappingIf the Gnawers Find you NappingYou Will Rot While They Are MappingOut the Law of Those Who GnawIn the Code of Claw
— Suzanne Collins, Gregor and the Code of Claw
I think war is a dangerous place.
— George W. Bush
In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight.
— T.H. White, The Once and Future King
If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you.
— Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart
But remember this, Japanese boy... airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality.
— Hayao Miyazaki, The Wind Rises
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
— Thomas Mann, This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of One Hundred Thoughtful Men and Women
Fire's tears were real now, and there was no helping them, for there was no time. Everything was moving too fast. She crossed the room to him, put her arms around him, clung to him, turning her face to the side, learning all at once that it was awkward to show a person all of one's love when one's nose was broken.His arms came around her tightly, his breath short and hard against her hair. He held on to the silk of her hair and she pressed herself against him until her panic calmed to something desperate, but bea
— Kristin Cashore, Fire
We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important thing...not ideas, but the system; not freedom, but drill. We had joined up with enthusiasm and with good will; but they did everything to knock that out of us.
— Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
this is the 21st century and we need to redefine r/evolution. this planet needs a people’s r/evolution. a humanist r/evolution. r/evolution is not about bloodshed or about going to the mountains and fighting. we will fight if we are forced to but the fundamental goal of r/evolution must be peace.we need a r/evolution of the mind. we need a r/evolution of the heart. we need a r/evolution of the spirit. the power of the people is stronger than any weapon. a people’s r/evolution can’t be stopped. we need to be weapons of mass construction. weapons of mass love. it’s not enough just to change the system. we need to change ourselves. we have got to make this world user friendly. user friendly.are you ready to sacrifice to end world hunger. to sacrifice to end colonialism. to end neo-colonialism. to end racism. to end sexism.r/evolution means the end of exploitation. r/evolution means respecting people from other cultures. r/evolution is creative.r/evolution means treating your mate as a friend and an equal. r/evolution is sexy.r/evolution means respecting and learning from your children. r/evolution is beautiful.r/evolution means protecting the people. the plants. the animals. the air. the water. r/evolution means saving this planet.r/evolution is love.
— Assata Shakur
If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.
— Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight
It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way.
— Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
There is something brittle in me that will break before it bends. Perhaps if the [the enemy] had brought a smaller army I might have had the sense to run. But he overdid it.
— Mark  Lawrence, King of Thorns
For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in foreign lands there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them, graven not on stone but in the hearts of men. Make them your examples, and, esteeming courage to be freedom and freedom to be happiness, do not weigh too nicely the perils of war."[Funeral Oration of Pericles]
— Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
Frankly, our ancestors don't seem much to brag about. I mean, look at the state they left us in, with the wars, the broken planet. Clearly, they didn't care about what would happen to the people who came after them.
— Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity
— Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis
Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled “enemy?
— Sylvia Plath
The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.
— Huey P. Newton
War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
— William Faulkner
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
— Winston S. Churchill
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
— Edward R. Murrow
Thomas Jefferson once said: 'Of course the people don't want war. But the people can be brought to the bidding of their leader. All you have to do is tell them they're being attacked and denounce the pacifists for somehow a lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.' I think that was Jefferson. Oh wait. That was Hermann Goering. Shoot."[Hosting the Peabody Awards for broadcasting excellence at the New York Waldorf-Astoria, June 6, 2006]
— Jon Stewart
Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.
— George S. Patton Jr.
There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must not be attacked, towns which must not be besieged, positions which must not be contested, commands of the sovereign which must not be obeyed.
— Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours. You, the mothers, who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.
— Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
— William T. Sherman
I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, Mother, what was war?
— Eve Merriam
There has never been a just [war], never an honorable one--on the part of the instigator of the war. I can see a million years ahead, and this rule will never change in so many as half a dozen instances. The loud little handful--as usual--will shout for the war. The pulpit will--warily and cautiously--object--at first; the great, big, dull bulk of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes and try to make out why there should be a war, and will say, earnestly and indignantly, 'It is unjust and dishonorable, and there is no necessity for it.' Then the handful will shout louder. A few fair men on the other side will argue and reason against the war with speech and pen, and at first will have a hearing and be applauded; but it will not last long; those others will outshout them, and presently the anti-war audiences will thin out and lose popularity. Before long you will see this curious thing: the speakers stoned from the platform, and free speech strangled by hordes of furious men who in their secret hearts are still at one with those stoned speakers--as earlier--but do not dare say so. And now the whole nation--pulpit and all--will take up the war-cry, and shout itself hoarse, and mob any honest man who ventures to open his mouth; and presently such mouths will cease to open. Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.
— Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories
Let my country die for me.
— James Joyce, Ulysses
Last year nothing happenedThe year before nothing happenedAnd the year before that nothinghappened.
— Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
Every true artist is at war with the world.
— Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue
You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
— Leon Trotsky
Great results, can be achieved with small forces.
— Sun Tzu, The Art of War
He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard.
— Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Those with the least always lose the most in war.
— Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged
A weapon does not decide whether or not to kill. A weapon is a manifestation of a decision that has already been made.
— Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo
And you're right, I do love you Eden. I will follow you into eternity, or until after this weekend when we all die gruesome, painful deaths... But with every breath I have left, I will use it to love you. Because, Eden, I want this... You; I want you more than life, more than anything. There was a time when I didn't think I was strong enough to face you again, or what is between us. I was too afraid of the heartache, of being shattered again. But now, it doesn't matter, nothing matters except you. I will take an eternity of hardship, of war or fighting my father, or anything, just to hold your love again. You are everything to me, my sun, my moon, the air I breathe. Nothing exists accept you. I love you.
— Rachel Higginson, Endless Magic
Those who lived by the sword were forced to die by it.
— T.H. White, The Once and Future King