The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before.

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?

Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

Some of the generals are saying, ‚We’re making progress. We are clearing an area.‘ But you really don’t defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

The Iranians have shot down drones. They tried to destroy the Saudi oil fields. They tried to storm our embassy. So, when my Democratic friends say we need appeasement, well appeasement hasn’t worked. And I think that we’ve learned, with respect to Iran, that weakness invites the wolves.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

Part of the population of Laos lives in urban centers, Vientiane being the largest.

The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.

Contention does not usually begin as strife between countries. More often, it starts with an individual, for we can contend within ourselves over simple matters of right and wrong. From there, contention can infect neighbors and nations like a spreading sore.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

I don’t think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that’s now history.

Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.

The West Bank is essentially imprisoned.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States – and war is what they got.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

People like to talk about war.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

Prime Minister Maliki, released from American restraint, acted on his worst instincts, creating enormous distrust in Iraq’s Kurdish population and deeply embittering Sunnis in western Iraq’s Al Anbar, who lost any confidence in a Baghdad government they saw as adversarial.

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

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

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

I don’t think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

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

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

The world is too violent right now.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

‚Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age‘ was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant’s thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

War is the business of barbarians.

Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.

By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early 1990s; one index is the flight of more than a million Kurds from the countryside to the unofficial Kurdish capital, Diyarbakir, from 1990 to 1994, as the Turkish army was devastating the countryside.

In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.