“In Rio de Janeiro, every cop has to make a choice. He either turns dirty, keeps his mouth shut, or goes to war.” WarTurnsChoicesMouthsDirtyCopRioRio De Janeiro Author:Jose Padilha
“And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth; Four things greater than all things are Women and Horses and Power and War.” WarGreaterFourMouthsAll ThingsHorseSouthPuff Author:Rudyard Kipling
“No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.” PeopleLittlesWarHardBigsAbleClassCuttingMouthsTeethDestroyedRuinsDullKnivesPortionsPrivilegedSpoons Author:Franz Grillparzer
“Revolution begins with the self, in the self.... We'd better take the time to fashion revolutionary selves, revolutionary lives, revolutionary relationships. Mouth don't win the war.” WarSelfWinningFashionRevolutionMouthsRevolutionary Author:Toni Cade Bambara
“Some flag waving is good, a lot of flag waving is tolerable, incessant flag waving is crazy and dangerous and easily manipulated by the war party to get people bubbling at the mouth in fear and rage.” PeopleWarPartyCrazyDangerousMouthsRageFlagsTolerableIncessantFlag Waving Author:Nicholas von Hoffman
“I am really interested in who owns ideas of religion. What if I say I'm a libertarian, socialist, Occupy-supporting, anti-war, Christian? Is that a controversial idea? I don't see anything really in the original semiotics of Christianity, in the specific parable of the radical socialist Jew from Galilee who becomes the hero figure in the Homeric-word-of-mouth-gossip-novel that becomes the Bible that should make that a paradox.” IfsShouldIdeasWarChristianChristianityNovelFiguresHeroMouthsOriginalsJewLibertarianRadicalWhat IfParadoxGossipAnti WarSocialistControversialParablesWord Of MouthSemiotics Author:Robert Montgomery
“There is a little bit of that schoolyard attitude of, it's one thing for a guy your own size to mouth off to you, but if there's a little guy, you should just smack him around. And it's probably bad advice in the schoolyard. It's certainly not a good way to run a foreign policy because even when you are dealing with a non-peer, militarily, war is complicated.” IfsWayShouldLittlesWarRunningGuyBitsAttitudeOne ThingAdvicePolicyLittle BitMouthsSizeComplicatedForeign PolicyPeersGood WaySmackBad Advice Author:Barack Obama
“I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.” ThinkingWarTruthPoetQuietMouthsSilentStatesmenTimes Like These Book:Selected Poems And Four Plays Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays
“Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out... and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel.... And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man with his mouth.” MenKindWarDoneHelpingHandsPassionPeaceAnimalDealsBloodColdMouthsUniversalSpeciesCalmStrangerHarmCampaignsMarchBrotherhoodWagesQuarrelsPulseSlaughterAtrocitiesIntervalsBrethrenNo WarGoing To WarBrotherhood Of Man Author:Mark Twain
“That is the way we decided to talk, free and easy, two young men discussing a boxing match. That was the only way to talk. You couldn't let too much truth seep into your conversation, you couldn't admit with your mouth what your eyes had seen. If you opened the door even a centimeter, you would smell the rot outside and hear the screams. You did not open the door. You kept your mind on the tasks of the day, the hunt for food and water and something to burn, and you saved the rest for the end of the war.” IfsMenWayMindTwoWarEndsEyeYoungEasyWaterToo MuchDoorsConversationMouthsTasksDecidedSmellSavedYoung ManBoxingScreamHuntsDiscussingBoxing Matches Book:City of Thieves: A Novel Source: City of Thieves: A Novel
“A smile flitted across War's mouth, hidden by her helmet. She had little patience for religion (although she approved heartily of the religious fanatics who sought to cleanse the world of heresy), and the only faith War had was in cold steel and hot blood.” WorldLittlesWarReligiousBloodColdMouthsHotSteelFanaticsHeresyApprovedHelmetReligious Fanatics Book:Hunger Source: Hunger
“She was tired of being told how it was by this generation, who’d botched things so badly. They’d sold their children a pack of lies: God and country. Love your parents. All is fair. And then they’d sent those boys, her brother, off to fight a great monster of a war that maimed and killed and destroyed whatever was inside them. Still they lied, expecting her to mouth the words and play along. Well, she wouldn’t. She knew now that the world was a long way from fair. She knew the monsters were real.” WorldWayLifeWellsChildrenLongStillsWarRealCountryPlayLyingFightingParentBoysGenerationsBrotherMouthsFairsTiredMonstersDestroyedExpectingPacksLong WayLiedThis GenerationCountry LoveGod And Country Author:Libba Bray