“The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat, is sufficient to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and the horror of war.” WarFieldsInspireHorrorBattleSufficientCombatHorror Of War Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“Ours is no bloody battle With woe and horror fraught Our joust is of a gentler kind A measuring of Mind with Mind A tournament of thought” MindKindHorrorBattleBloodyWoeTournamentsMeasuring Author:Willard Fiske
“The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar.” WorldLooksWholeHorrorBattleWhole WorldBricksBourgeoisieMassacresWholesaleMortarBricks And Mortar Book:Marx: Later Political Writings Source: Marx: Later Political Writings
“It takes a disciplined imagination to acknowledge that the less personal savageries of bombs, missiles, artillery and heavy weapons are, to those blown to smithereens, also barbaric. The main horror of what the coalition is doing is not a matter of the occasional soldier who, in the heat of battle, commits a war crime, but the steady destruction rained on cities, villages, the Iraqi people. This violence is wreaked calmly, from a distance, within the rules of engagement. The war itself is the American war crime.” PeopleWarMatterPoliticalImaginationCitiesViolenceCrimeHorrorBattleWeaponsDestructionDistanceSoldierHeavyCommitAcknowledgeHeatBombsVillageEngagementSteadyOccasionalMissilesCoalitionsSavageryBarbaricWar CrimesArtilleryAmerican WarRules Of Engagement Author:James Carroll
“War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle. I have a more vivid recollection of the first that the last one I was in. It is a classical maxim that it is sweet and becoming to die for one's country; but whoever has seen the horrors of a battlefield feels that it is far sweeter to live for it.” FeelsFirstsWarCountryLastsRomanceDiesLosesDealsSweetBecomingHorrorBattleSoldierMaximsVividBattlefieldsRecollection Author:John S. Mosby
“The story wafts across the Atlantic, where it's picked up with glee by Catholic progressives and horror by some Catholic conservatives - and the battle of the blogs is on, full blast. No one bothers to ask whether there's any basis in fact for the assertion that this is going to be a "global-warming encyclical."” FactsStoriesAsksHorrorBattleBasesCatholicBotherGlobal WarmingBlogsBlastAssertionGlee Author:George Weigel
“An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.” SoulMoralCourageBloodHorrorBattleConcernedElectionMudBathsElections And Voting Book:Back to Methuselah Source: Back to Methuselah
“she, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the meaning of life, her love had driven him to the far corners of the Earth, because he needed to be rich enough to buy some land and live in peace with her for the rest of their days. It was his utter confidence in this fragile creature, that had made him fight with honor, because he knew that after a battle he could forget all the horrors of war in her arms, and that, despite all the women he had known, only there in her arms could he close his eyes and sleep like a child.” ChildrenMadeWarEnoughEyeEarthFightingSleepForgetKnownRichLandArmsNeededHonorHorrorBattleCreaturesResponsibleAffectionCornersDrivenDespiteHis EyesMeaning Of LifeFragileGaietyHorror Of WarBrida Author:Paulo Coelho
“The world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased, the castle fallen silent in horror, and every combatant laid down their arms? Harry's mind was in freefall, spinning out of control, unable to grasp the impossiblity, because Fred Weasley could not be dead, the evidence of all his senses must be lying -” WorldMindLyingArmsHorrorBattleEvidenceSilentSensesFallenCastlesSpinningWeasleyFred WeasleySpinning Out Of Control Author:J. K. Rowling
“But : We're still human. Human because we keep on battling against all these horrors, the horrors caused and not caused by us. We battle not in order to stay alive, that would be too materalistic, for we are body and spirit, but in order to love each other.” HumansStillsBodyWould BeSpiritOrderAliveHorrorBattleLove Each OtherStaying Alive Book:Empire of the Senseless Source: Empire of the Senseless
“And I like a good horror story as much as the next person so long as they kill off some men too and not just girls. But the voices Joan heard were real. There’s clear and substantiated proof they were real. She won battles that would otherwise have been lost because of what those voices told her in advance of them allowing the French generals to strategize in ways completely different than they did before Joan came along. People’s lives were saved because of what those voices told her.” PeopleMenWayPersonsLongHas BeensDifferentRealStoriesGirlNextLostVoiceClearHeardHorrorBattleProofSavedAllowingHorror StoriesJust A Girl Author:Meg Cabot
“Witches, wolves, and moral friend There is horror that does not end War is waged and battles fought But have you stopped to count the cost? We are the ones backed by right We must strike with bold and might The cursed ones blamless be Warm them of the Hunters you see” DoeWarEndsMightMoralHorrorBattleCostWarmStrikesWitchHuntersCursed Author:Nancy Holder
“The world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased, the castle fallen silent in horror, and every combatant laid down their arms?” WorldArmsHorrorBattleSilentFallenCastlesFred WeasleySpinning Out Of Control Author:J. K. Rowling