#War

"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount."

"If my God damns people for love but saves them for brutle warfare, then that is not the God I know or wish to worship."

"When relationships fail it is usually because someone chooses not to show up for the battle."

"Smartass Disciple: Master, you should teach people not to do war to each other.Master of Stupidity: I should teach people how to win their minds of their wars."

"There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life."

"If you had hope, maybe you could find a way to make things change,. Because if you thought about it, there were so many reasons to try."

"Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible."

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

"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."

"Religion is a complex and often contradictory force in our world. It fosters hope and comfort but also doubt and guilt. It creates both community and exclusion. It brings societies together around shared belief and tears them apart through war. However, what unites the faithful, whatever their religion, is the unshakeable force of generosity."

"Throughout the ages, Christians have adapted John of Patmos's visions to changing times, reading their own social, political and religious conflicts into the cosmic war he so powerfully evokes. Yet his Book of Revelation appeals not only to fear and desires for vengeance but also to hope."

"The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on."

"It’s like we have the bones of animals and the hearts of angels."

"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up."

"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."

"Like Alexander the Great and Caesar, I’m out to conquer the world. But first I have to stop at Walmart and pick up some supplies."

"The line between him and the enemy had simultaneously blurred and solidified. Somehow, while perhaps it shouldn't have, this thought provided a strange sense of peace."

"I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?"

"To say that the first casualty of war is truth is to miss the rather more important point that a principal weapon of war is lies."

"Once war becomes a clash of absolutes, there is no breathing room for mercy. Absolute truth is blind truth."