Top War Quotes

Richard Nixon had made a fatal error in ignoring the politico-meteorological dimension when he announced the expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia on April 30, 1970. The invasion of Laos, on the...

Self-observation is simply the observation of an internal state and an external event. It is pure awareness, which gives one the ability to choose one's actions. Only by having the choice can one perf...

War Definition

(a.) Ware; aware.

(n.) A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities.

(n.) A condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical force. In this sense, levying war against the sovereign authority is treason.

(n.) Instruments of war.

(n.) Forces; army.

(n.) The profession of arms; the art of war.

(n.) a state of opposition or contest; an act of opposition; an inimical contest, act, or action; enmity; hostility.

(v. i.) To make war; to invade or attack a state or nation with force of arms; to carry on hostilities; to be in a state by violence.

(v. i.) To contend; to strive violently; to fight.

(v. t.) To make war upon; to fight.

(v. t.) To carry on, as a contest; to wage.

Anything Freed with Guns will Go Back Eventually.

Suppose that we agree that the two atrocities can or may be mentioned in the same breath. Why should we do so? I wrote at the time (, October 5, 1998) that Osama bin Laden 'hopes to bring a judgmental...

Most of the oppression of Muslims in the world right now is carried out by other Muslims.

If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than th

When it comes to peace, we need to facilitate peace-makers' personal engagement and their genuine desire to bridge the gap between advocacy knowledge and skills necessary to differentiate between theo...

As day is to a sword, night is to a shield.

In Sarajevo in 1992, while being shown around the starved, bombarded city by the incomparable John Burns, I experienced four near misses in all, three of them in the course of one day. I certainly tho...

On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based on recognition of each other's humanity. Without such recognition, fear fueled by...

I took her in my arms and kissed her.And thus in the midst of a city of wild conflict, filled with the alarms of war; with death and destruction reaping their terrible harvest around her, did Dejah Th...

It is time to recognize the past and ongoing genocides to prevent new ones. Together we can build a better world!

Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in remembrance of those who had 'given' their lives. But on what assurance did we know that these gifts had r...

That war [Bosnian war] in the early 1990s changed a lot for me. I never thought I would see, in Europe, a full-dress reprise of internment camps, the mass murder of civilians, the reinstiutution of to...

This private estate was far enough away from the explosion so that its bamboos, pines, laurel, and maples were still alive, and the green place invited refugees—partly because they believed that if th...

...and to this day the rare traveller who knows the language and customs even of the worst of the tribes is safer amongst them than in the neighbouring Cossack settlements.

War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.

Just a little piece of peace can cultivate the land of Palestine, but inhuman human won't let it do that....

Eastward and westward storms are breaking,--great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. I will not believe them inevitable.

We are not enemies but we are just hostile to each other because of our different views and opinions.