War Quotes - Page 178

I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.

I'd rather go to the White House Correspondents' dinner than any awards show.

There are two kinds of authors - subjective and objective. Introverts are more inward looking.

The Spirit's fullness is not the reward of our faithfulness, but God's gift for our defeat. He was not given to the disciples in Acts 28 as the culmination and reward of their wonderful service, but in Acts 2 when they had proved themselves cowards, meeting behind closed doors.

We are at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to the stars, and it has been said if we lose that war, and in so doing lose this way of freedom of ours, history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening.

General, you don't have a war plan! All you have is a kind of horrible spasm!

In U.S. history, war has served as an important diversionary tactic, causing the people at large to shift their attention away from the state's own criminality and toward real or fictitious devils abroad. Wars have therefore proved to be extremely useful in propping up the political class and preserving it from the public resistance and rebellion that might otherwise have arisen.

But what a cruel thing is war to separate and destroy families and friends.

Live in the world you inhabit. Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them. Turn them to your advantage.

For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.

When old friends get together, everything else fades to insignificance."- War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death

I like pacifists and people who have a heavy emotional identification with deathism and war would probably call me a pacifist, but I am a non-invasivist rather than a non-violentist. That is, I believe that an invaded people have the right to defend themselves by any means necessary. This includes putting ground glass or poison in the invaders' food, shooting at them from ambush, sabotage, the general strike, armed revolution, etc. It's up to the invaded to decide which of these techniques they will use. It's not up to some moralist to tell them which techniques are permissible.

Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance.

Before we become too arrogant with the most deadly of the seven deadly sins, the sin of pride, let us remember that the two great wars of this century, wars which cost twenty million dead, were fought between Christian nations praying to the same God.

There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.

I'm a guy here to play football. I'm not here for photos or newspapers or TV shows or trophies or awards. I'm not into all that.

To be in time is to be asleep: to be awake is to be in eternity.

A totally different attitude is needed: the attitude of love. Christ brings love to the world. He destroys law, the very basis of it. That was his crime; that's why he was crucified - because he was destroying the whole basis of this criminal society; he was destroying the whole foundation rock of this criminal world, the world of wars, and violence, and aggression. He gave a totally new foundation stone.

We live our lives for our life's sake, rather than for illusions about rewards and satisfaction after we're dead.

It's always the old to lead us to the war. It's always the young to fall.

To be proven wrong should be celebrated, for it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding, furthering awareness.

If we wish not to go backwards, we must run.

Now it's a war on women; tomorrow it's going to be a war on left-handed Irishmen or something like that.

The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people.

My great objection to this government is, that it does not leave us the means of defending our rights, or of waging war against tyrants.