War Quotes - Page 351

Hate is the revenge of a coward intimidated.

Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.

The National Liberation Front was not...a viable, autonomous organization with a life of its own; it was a facade, a "front," by means of which the DLD (the North Vietnamese Communist Party) sought to mobilize the people in the South to accomplish its ends, and to garner international sympathy and support.

Beware of clichés. Not just the ­clichés that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichés of response as well as expression. There are clichés of observation and of thought - even of conception. Many novels, even quite a few adequately written ones, are ­clichés of form which conform to clichés of expectation.

I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.

The choiceless truth of who you are is revealed to be permanently here permeating everything. Not a thing and not separate from anything.

Finally all that is trustworthy is this immeasurable silent awareness that is the truth of who you are, that is love.

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.

The European powers had been anxious to see the United States become embroiled in a civil war and eventually break into two smaller and weaker nations. That would pave the way for their further colonization of Latin American without fear of the Americans being able to enforce the Monroe Doctrine.

American banks may have been unable to supply adequate loans, but the Rothschild consortium in Britain was both able and willing. It was during this time that the Rothschilds were consolidating their new industrial holdings in the United States through their agent, August Belmont. Derek Wilson tells us: "They owned or had major shareholdings in Central American ironworks, North American canal construction companies, and a multiplicity of other concerns. They became the major importers of bullion from the newly discovered goldfields".

It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave

Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic wars going on inside millions and millions of individuals.

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force!

And like a wind shall I one day blow amongst them and with my spirit take away their soul's breath: thus my future wills it.

To be the equal of one's opponent-this is the first condition of an honourable duel.

The code of Manu differs from the bible. By means of it the nobles, the philosophers, and the warriors keep the whip hand over the majority. It is full of noble valuations; it shows a feeling of perfection, an acceptance of life, and triumphant feeling toward self and life.

I see many soldiers; could I but see many warriors! "Uniform" one calleth what they wear; may it not be uniform what they therewith hide!

It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended

Warfare has been marvelously developed. It will soon be impossible to raise it to further heights.

Life is a series of dreams, a series of interlocking awarenesses.

Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic.