#War

"Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust."

"Some people have a heart to do evil and they don’t care if you’re Muslim or Christian."

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

"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."

"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."

"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."

"Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."

"Only the dead have seen the end of war."

"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in."

"The success that Americans are said to worship is success of a specific sort: accomplished not through hard work, primarily, but through the ingenious angle, the big break. Sit down at a lunch counter, stand back up a star. Invest in a new issue and watch it soar. Split a single atom, win a war."

"The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom."

"The Chinese used gunpowder to make fireworks for celebrations, and the white man came along and said, Holy shit, we can use this to kill people. What better way to celebrate than that?"

"In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good."

"Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible."

"War is not just the business of death, it is the antitheses of life."

"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."

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

"You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival."

"Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself."

"I wish I could grow swords like I can roses. Wouldn’t war be so romantic then? Then the U.S. could really show the world how much it loves it."