#war

The good guys fight for freedom, justice and most words that don’t put food on the table. The bad fight to scrub those words from our speech. Only problem is, both sides claim to be good. ↗

— David Gunn

#war #death

It (politician) wants to separate them. And to do so it has chosen the worst, blackest pencil of all - the pencil of war, which spells only misery and death. ↗

— Zlata Filipović

#war #young-generation #death

You can't get an actor to do something that is beyond his range, so you have to be aware of the range of the actor and, if necessary, alter the part to suit the actor. ↗

— John Boorman

#alter #aware #beyond #get #his

Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer. ↗

— Roberta Williams

#been #computer #computers #convince #developing

You can pray and fight at the same time, Corporal. Especially if you learn how before things get rough. It’s important to have a philosophy of life . . . and of death. -- Chartist Gorman in GLORY MAIN ↗

— Henry V. O'Neil

#conscientious-objector #space-war #survival #war-in-space #death

The fiendlike skill we display in the invention of all manner of death-dealing engines, the vindictiveness with which we carry on our wars, and the misery and desolation that follow in their train, are enough of themselves to distinguish the white civilized man as the most ferocious animal on the face of the earth. ↗

— Herman Melville

#violence #war #white-people #death

The adjacent shores resounded with the alternate shouts of the sons of liberty and the groans of their parting spirits. ↗

— William Apess

#liberty #war #death

George Orwell famously described international sport as 'war minus the shooting'. But for all Orwell's greatness as a thinker, this was one of his least felicitous lines, analogous to 'murder minus the death' or 'life minus the breathing'. ↗

— Gideon Haigh

#orwell #sport #war #death

Min aska kommer sprida värme. ↗

— Leon Noips

#sarcasm #self-awareness #death

I'm just human. Our task is to try. Being a Death Warrior is all in the trying. --DQ ↗

— Francisco X. Stork

#warrior #death