“I, serial number 30743, Lieutenant General in reserves Yitzhak Rabin, a soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces and in the army of peace, I, who have sent armies into fire and soldiers to their death, say today: We sail onto a war which has no casualties, no wounded, no blood nor suffering. It is the only war which is a pleasure to participate in - the war for peace.” WarTodaySufferingForcePeacePleasureNumbersFireBloodArmySoldierDefenseReservesSailWoundedIsraeliCasualtiesSerialsLieutenants Author:Yitzhak Rabin
“Our path to Palestine will not be covered with a red carpet or with yellow sand. Our path to Palestine will be covered with blood... In order that we may liberate Palestine, the Arab nation must unite, the Arab armies must unite, and a unified plan of action must be established.” MayActionOrderNationsPathPlansBloodRedArmySandCoveredYellowPalestineCarpetRed CarpetUnifiedArab World Author:Gamal Abdel Nasser
“I investigated reported Japanese atrocities committed by the Japanese Army in Nanking and elsewhere. Verbal accounts of reliable eyewitnesses and letters from individuals whose credibility is beyond question afford convincing proof that the Japanese Army behaved and is continuing to behave in a fashion reminiscent of Attila and his Huns. Not less than 300,000 Chinese civilians were slaughtered, many in cold blood.” IndividualBloodFashionColdLettersAccountsArmyCommittedProofChineseBehaveElsewhereContinuingConvincingCredibilityCiviliansAtrocitiesEyewitnessesAtrocities Committed Author:Koki Hirota
“We can have peace and security only so long as we band together to preserve that most priceless possession, our inheritance of European blood, only so long as we guard ourselves against attack by foreign armies and dilution by foreign races.” LongTogetherRaceBloodSecurityBandArmyPossessionPreservesInheritancePricelessPeace And Security Author:Charles Lindbergh
“I know you were surprised when, after the fall of Dacca, Pakistani and Indian officers shook hands. But do you realize that, up until 1965, in our army and the Pakistani one you could come across generals who were brothers? Blood brothers, sons of the same father and the same mother.” KnowsHandsMotherFallFatherRealizingBloodSonBrotherArmyIndianOfficersBlood Brothers Author:Indira Gandhi
“Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death - ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life.” HumansWholeFactsSeemsOrderPassionNationsRaceOur LivesTroubleSacrificeBloodOughtCrossesRootsArmyDenyFlagsRejoiceTabooConfrontingMosquesTotemsConundrumsSteeplesBlood Sacrifice Author:James A. Baldwin