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“Do not take roads traveled by the public.”

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Pythagoras, born in 571 BC in Greece, was a renowned Greek philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, and music theorist. He founded the Pythagorean school, which had a profound impact on the fields of mathematics and philosophy. more

“You say glory, necessity, pride; I say barbarity, greed, arrogance. War is a search for glory, for that particular sense of joy and satisfaction that comes from staking one's life on the outcome of a gamble. The search for a cheap thrill, with a cost too dear for Midas, and on a pretext that, more or less, amounts to 'My neighbour has a thing. I want it.”

War

Book:Art of War

Source: Art of War

“Man's discovery that his genitalia could serve as a weapon to generate fear must rank as one of the most important discoveries of prehistoric times along with the use of fire and the first crude stone axe," concluded the American writer Susan Brownmiller in her groundbreaking account of rape, Against Our Will, published in 1975”

War Feminism Rape War Crimes Our Bodies Their Batlefields Susan Brownmiller Tw Assault

Book:Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women

Source: Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women

“The white people always want to fight someone and they always get the dark-skinned people to do the fighting.”

War Fighting Whites Native Americans

Book:The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

Source: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

“Brigan, could you attempt, at least, to make yourself presentable? I know this is a war, but the rest of us are trying to pretend it’s a party.”

War Humor Deceit Parties Spying

Book:Fire

Source: Fire

“War must always be done out of sight, it shocks people and they stop immediately.”

War

Book:The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

Source: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

“A neat little apartment with a neat little bourgeois life. A neat little security on the edge of the abyss. Do you really see that?”

Love War Security Lost Generation Bourgeois Life

Book:Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country

Source: Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country

“I found the head nurse and asked her, and she said Dan has been flown back to America on account of they can take better care of him there. I asked her if he is okay, and she said, 'Yeah, if you can call two punctured lungs, a severed intestine, spinal separation, a missing foot, a truncated leg, and third degree burns over half the body okay, then he is just fine. I thanked her, and went on my way.”

War Injury Wounded

Book:Forrest Gump

Source: Forrest Gump

“... your father and I were in the trenches together, in the Great War. That was a war all right. Oh I know there have been other wars since, better-publicized ones, more expensive ones perhaps, but our war is the one I'll always remember. Our war is the one that means war to me.”

War World War I Wars First World War

Book:Snow White

Source: Snow White

“About a week after they had come back, a load of mail came to the island. They were the first letters the men had received in several weeks, and for a night it relieved the changeless pattern of their lives. One of the infrequent rations of beer was given out the same night, and the men finished their three cans quickly, and sat about without saying very much. The beer had been far too inadequate to make them drunk; it made them only moody and reflective, it opened the gate to all their memories, and left them sad, hungering for things they could not name.”

War Drinking

Book:The Naked and the Dead

Source: The Naked and the Dead

“If the war had a noble purpose, it was this - to end the inhumanity those photographs showed. While India rarely spoke about its imperative as the moral one, and few people steeped in realpolitik can shed their cynicism when a politician speaks in moral terms, and the intervention certainly suited India's strategic interests, the fact remains that in the annals of humanitarian interventions, few were as swift, successful, purpose-driven and with humanitarian goals as the Indian intervention to liberate Bangladesh. India went in when it was attacked, and left before its troops became unpopular.”

War India Pakistan Bangladesh 1971

Book:The Colonel Who Would Not Repent: The Bangladesh War and Its Unquiet Legacy

Source: The Colonel Who Would Not Repent: The Bangladesh War and Its Unquiet Legacy

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