#War

"Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same... Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social dis-ease."

"The world is a different place in this new century, [...]. And we are a different people. My visions still come but no one listens any longer to what they tell us, what they warn us. I knew even as a young woman that destruction bred on the horizon. [...] War touches everyone, and windigos spring from the earth."

"You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war."

"A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me."

"Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die."

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

"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."

"Beneath the violet pillar, in the vacuum before the roar of the cloud, there came a soft sound that might have been heard by those who listened closely: the gentle sigh of an idea unbound."

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

"Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on."

"For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future."

"If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are."

"My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II."

"God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless."

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

"In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success."

"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?"

"People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine."

"Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives."

"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."