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“Once a battle looms, a sailor–or a solider–cares far less about fighting for the man in command than he does about the man to his left and the one to his right.”

Book:The Steel Rose

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The Steel Rose

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“How much poison are you willing to eat for the success of the free market and global trade? Please name your preferred poisons. For the sake of goodness, how much evil are you willing to do? Fill in the following blanks with the names of your favorite evils and acts of hatred. What sacrifices are you prepared to make for culture and civilization? Please list the monuments, shrines, and works of art you would most willingly destroy In the name of patriotism and the flag, how much of our beloved land are you willing to desecrate? List in the following spaces the mountains, rivers, towns, farms you could most readily do without. State briefly the ideas, ideals, or hopes, the energy sources, the kinds of security; for which you would kill a child. Name, please, the children whom you would be willing to kill.”

War Poetry Questionnaire

Author:Wendell Berry

“If but a fraction of the active torment or dull misery of the war combatants could have been transferred, not by the clumsy interpretation of picture, written or spoken word, but by some mind current affecting another human’s sensation, lighting up in another mind the unassailable and uncommunicable direct apprehension of pain, then the war would have come to an end in less weeks than it endured years.”

War Great War World War

Author:Charles Masterman

“Then, in 1738, Robert Jenkins, a British merchant captain, was summoned to appear in Parliament, where he reportedly claimed that a Spanish officer had stormed his brig in the Caribbean and, accusing him of smuggling sugar from Spain's colonies, cut off his left ear. Jenkins reputedly displayed his severed appendage, pickled in a jar, and pledged "my cause to my country." The incident further ignited the passions of Parliament and pamphleteers, leading people to cry for blood - an ear for an ear - and a good deal of booty as well. The conflict became known as the War of Jenkins' Ear.”

War Ears Britain Sail Spain Wager 1738 War Of Jenkins Ear

Book:The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

Source: The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

“War was part chance, part common sense, part the pluck and luck of the devil.”

War Soldier

Book:The Judgment House: The Works of Gilbert Parker

Source: The Judgment House: The Works of Gilbert Parker

“It’s a cruel world, Mus,’ I said, using her old nickname, ‘and you have to hope the warriors defending you are just as cruel as your enemies.’ ‘Are you cruel, lord?’ ‘I’m good at war,’ I told her, ‘and war is cruel.”

War Medieval

Book:War of the Wolf

Source: War of the Wolf

“The coverage succeeded in obscuring the extreme disproportionality of this one-sided war: one of the most powerful armies on the planet used its full might against a besieged area of one hundred and forty square miles, which is among the world’s most populates enclaves and whose people had no way to escape the rain of fire and steel.”

War Media

Author:Rashid Khalidi

“Have you completely lost your mind, Madsen? Children don't go to war!" Rasmus and Esben started jumping up and down. "We want to go! We want to go! they yelled in unison. "Please, please, let us go.”

War Innocence Absurdity

Book:We, the Drowned

Source: We, the Drowned

“Knowledge is one of the greatest weapons...Arm yourself well, for there are times words can reach where a sword cannot.”

War Knowledge

Book:Immortal

Source: Immortal

“He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so still and quiet along the entire front line that the army dispatches restricted themselves to a single sentence: that there was nothing new to report on the western front.”

War Death Irony

Book:All quiet on the western front

Source: All quiet on the western front

“Maple. Maypole Catch and carry. Ash and Ember. Elderberry. Woolen. Woman. Moon at night. Willow. Window. Candlelight. Fallow farrow. Ash and oak. Bide and borrow. Chimney smoke. Barrel. Barley. Stone and stave. Wind and water. Misbehave.”

Poetry Poem Fae Spell Name Of The Wind Kvothe Kingkiller Chronicles Bast Wise Mans Fear Kingkiller Wayside Inn

Book:The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

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