#War

"There are no atheists in the foxhole."

"Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting."

"The war for peace can destroy the whole world."

"He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen - and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death. Hurray then for funerals!"

"I don't play with my life by talking bullshit.I might have some chances in this bitchy life,but I've got only one fuckin' chance to give...my best shot."

"I let all that anger and worry go because they don't belong to me any more than the future does. And I don't wanna feel them anyhow, because the truth is, whatever happens when this war ends, here and now, far from Richmond County, I'm freer than I've ever been."

"Were prayers of murderers, when fighting on the “right side” of the war, ever heard—let alone answered?"

"When I heard your organization was recording testimonies, I knew I had to come. She died in my arms, saying 'I don't want to die.' That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we would never have war anymore."

"Love' is the only weapon I have, I will defend with love, I will attack with love."

"In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for, and against the same thing at the same time."

"Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop."

"War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it. War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out."

"They're in love. Fuck the war."

"War is what happens when language fails."

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

"Much blood has been spilled over words, and a great deal of it over the word ‘God.’ (125)"

"If my legs get blown off in war, I’d like to have them replaced with a coffee table. Half man/half furniture, I’ll be in the living room if you need me."

"The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized."

"I have given my word that only death will take me from you."

"God created war so that Americans would learn geography."