“Our soldiers in another area were attacked chemically. Our soldiers - they went to the hospital as casualties because of chemical weapons, but in the area where they said the government used chemical weapons, we only had video and we only have pictures and allegations. We're not there ; our forces, our police, our institutions don't exist there. How can you talk about what happened if you don't have evidence ?” IfsSaidGovernmentUsedForceHappenedWeaponsEvidenceAreasPoliceInstitutionsSoldierVideoHospitalsChemicalsThey SaidCasualtiesChemical WeaponsAllegations Author:Bashar al-Assad
“The question is who threw chemicals on the same day on our soldiers. That's the same question. Technically, not the soldiers. Soldiers don't throw missiles on themselves. So, either the rebels, the terrorists, or a third party. We don't have any clue yet.” PartyThirdsSoldierTerroristChemicalsRebelClueMissilesThird Parties Author:Bashar al-Assad
“Iran doesn't have any soldier in Syria, so how could Iran help me ?” HelpingSoldierHelp MeIranSyria Author:Bashar al-Assad
“I remember the Korean War very well. And I remember the soldiers who were POWs who supposedly were "brainwashed," quote, unquote, who gave in, so to speak. And when they came back, they were treated like pariahs and traitors.” WellsWarRememberSpeakSoldierTreatedKoreanTraitorBrainwashedPowPariahsKorean War Author:Martin Scorsese
“Like everyone else, I was at least peripherally involved in the antiwar movement. You woke up every morning feeling tormented about what was going on in Vietnam. It seemed to a lot of us like a catastrophe from the very beginning, inflicting immense and needless suffering on not only the American soldiers but on a lot of innocent peasants who were caught in a Cold War proxy battle - two million Vietnamese died during those years, and you woke up every morning knowing that that was going on.” YearsTwoWarFeelingsSufferingMorningMillionsKnowingMovementColdInvolvedBattleDiedSoldierCaughtInnocentVietnamAntiwarImmenseEvery MorningCold WarCatastrophePeasantsVietnameseAmerican SoldierProxy Author:Robert Hass
“When the US withdrew their troops from Somalia, I recall making a comment that [in] the way the peacekeepers had been withdrawn from Somalia, the impression had been given that the easiest way to unravel a peacekeeping operation is to kill a few soldiers.” WayGivenSoldierImpressionOperationsCommentTroopsRecallsPeacekeepingSomaliaPeacekeepers Author:Kofi Annan
“Will Ferrell and I are teaming up again on a film called Daddy's Home. In the movie I play a Special-Ops soldier who has just discovered that Will Ferrell's character is married to my ex-wife and is my children's stepfather. So, I have to come home and try to win them back and take him out.” TryingChildrenPlayCharacterHomeFilmWinningWifeSpecialMarriedSoldierMy ChildrenComing HomeDaddyExesEx WifeStepfathersSpecial OpsTeaming Up Author:Mark Wahlberg
“Our concern is to help people counter the efforts of those who seek to "regiment the public mind every bit as much as an army regiments the bodies of its soldiers," so that the self-designated "responsible men" will be able to run the affairs of the world untroubled by the "bewildered herd" - the general public - who are to be marginalized and dispersed, directed to personal concerns, in a well-regulated "democracy."” PeopleMenWorldMindWellsSelfHelpingBodyRunningAbleBitsEffortDemocracyConcernArmyResponsibleAffairSoldierHerdsBewilderedMarginalizedGeneral Public Author:Noam Chomsky
“I think maybe the destructive pleasure got turned into the destructive pleasure of war (something we see still in the images of US soldiers urinating on the dead bodies of Taliban soldiers). Something of the pleasure in destruction gets unleashed, and then becomes part of war effort rationalised first as revenge (or justice defined as revenge). But then it takes new forms, as we see now.” ThinkingFirstsStillsWarBodyFormJusticePleasureEffortDestructionSoldierRevengeDefinedDestructiveArt Of WarTalibanUnleashed Author:Judith Butler
“There can be no doubt about this. It even held true for the soldiers involved in the Kosovo War. For the soldiers stayed mostly in their barracks! In this way, polar inertia has truly become a mass phenomenon. And not only for the TV audiences watching the war at home but also for the army that watches the battle from the barracks.” WayWarHomeWatchesAudienceDoubtTvsInvolvedBattleMassArmySoldierNo DoubtPhenomenonInertiaKosovo Author:Paul Virilio
“We know that for the last 300 or 400 years, the size of human bodies is growing. Now what happened is that we suddenly, in history, have the backward process. We have these great Greek athletes, we have ultra-powerful Roman soldiers. You look at the size of the Roman soldier who has to carry all this ammunition. You're talking about 300,000 Arnold Schwartzeneggers.” KnowsYearsHumansLooksBodyLastsProcessPowerfulTalkingGrowingHappenedSoldierAthleteSizeGreekHuman BodyAmmunitionUltrasRoman Soldiers Author:Garry Kasparov
“Even well-known historians like Edward Gibbon are talking about how the soldiers of the 18th century were not able to do the same type of exercise [like Romans].” WellsAbleTalkingKnownCenturyTypeExerciseSoldierHistorianWell Known18th Century Author:Garry Kasparov
“A very, very impressive director, Tomas Alfredson. It's only his second film [ 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy'], but he's a real find.” RealFilmDirectorsSoldierSpyImpressiveTailorsVery Impressive Author:John Hurt
“I define the terms "founding fathers" and "founders" broadly to include an entire generation or two of Americans from many walks of life who, in the last half of the 18th century and early 19th century, articulated the rights of colonists, secured independence from Great Britain, and established new constitutional republics at both the national and state levels. This definition includes a cast of thousands who played their patriotic part at the local, state, and/or national levels. Among them were citizen soldiers, elected representatives, polemicists, and patriot preachers.” TwoStatesLastsFatherTermWalksLevelsHalfRightsGenerationsCenturyCitizensIndependenceSoldierCastsDefinitionsLocalsBritainPatrioticRepublicPreacherRepresentativesFoundersPatriotFounding19th CenturyGreat BritainSecuredWalks Of Life18th CenturyColonists Author:Daniel L Dreisbach
“"Authenticity" doesn't mean much to me. I just want "good", in the sense of well-designed, well-constructed, long-lasting garments. My interest in military clothing stems from that. It's not about macho, playing soldiers, anything militaristic. It's the functionality, the design-solutions, the durability. Likewise workwear.” WantWellsMeanLongInterestMilitaryDesignSolutionsSoldierAuthenticityLastingClothingsStemGarmentsMachoLong LastingFunctionalityDurability Author:William Gibson
“I never read Ford Madox Ford's "The Good Soldier." I've been reading books that I should have read years ago and did not. That's one of them.” ShouldYearsBookReadingYears AgoShould HaveSoldierReading BooksGood Soldiers Author:Stephen Dobyns
“America's military is second to none in the world. We're blessed with terrific soldiers, and extraordinary technology and intelligence. But the idea of a trillion dollars in cuts through sequestration and budget cuts to the military would change that.” WorldIdeasAmericaTechnologyCuttingMilitaryBlessedDollarsExtraordinarySoldierBudgetsTerrificBudget Cuts Author:Mitt Romney
“A lot of my family is in army and it has always been inspirational for me to see them wearing the prestigious uniforms and their disciplined lifestyle. If I wasn't so passionate about cricket, I would have definitely been a soldier for my country.” IfsCountryMy FamilyArmySoldierPassionateLifestyleUniformsCricketPrestigious Author:Shahid Afridi
“Up to a certain extent the UN soldiers are useful. But they are consuming a lot of resources in relation to the little work they are doing.” LittlesCertainResourcesRelationSoldierConsuming Author:Paul Kagame
“The truth is that the antiwar movement was powered by the working class. The students were the ones that got the media and so forth, but it was the soldiers on the ground who really energized the antiwar movement in the late Sixties.” ClassMediaMovementStudentsTruth IsLateSoldierAntiwarSixtyWorking Class Author:Bill Ayers
“I went out to cover the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan fundamentally [in Buzzing at the Sill] because I was interested in war as a notion and in experiencing it. I was interested in history and how societies form. I was interested in the recent history of what had provoked these wars. So when I finally got out there, I was really seeing the wars through the American perspective, much more than through being embedded with American soldiers and Marines.” WarFormSeeingPerspectiveNotionSoldierIraqAfghanistanMarineEmbeddedProvokedAmerican Soldier Author:Peter van Agtmael
“I realized how little I knew about my own country. I had grown up in the suburbs and, after college, I moved out of the country, so I didn't really know the place well. When I started following soldiers and their families back home, it provoked a lot of the questions about who we are as a nation, questions I realized couldn't be explored through the more limited framework of looking at the military at war and at home.” KnowsWellsLittlesWarCountryHomeNationsMy OwnMilitaryCollegeMovedSoldierFollowingI RealizedWho We AreFrameworkBack HomeSuburbsProvoked Author:Peter van Agtmael
“George Bush is guilty of murder for the deaths of over 4000 young American soldiers who have died in the Iraqi war.” WarYoungMurderDiedSoldierGuiltyAmerican Soldier Author:Vincent Bugliosi
“I have no personal desire to get married whatsoever and I certainly have no desire to be a soldier. I'm old school, I'm from gay liberation, we wanted to end war forever and smash the patriarchy and these are values I still hold dear but, I believe that any person who wants to get married should have that right and I know that Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual people serve with distinction in the armed forces, and that when they are killed, supposedly serving our country in these wars, that I personally do not support, their partners back home do not receive death benefits.” PeopleKnowsWantShouldBelievePersonsStillsWarEndsCountryHomeWantedSchoolDesireValuesForceI BelieveSupportForeverGayBenefitsMarriedShould HaveSoldierDearPartnersOur CountryLiberationDistinctionServingPatriarchyBack HomeOld SchoolBisexualArmed ForcesPersonal DesireGay Liberation Author:Cleve Jones
“It's just the banks who are the latest target of the American socialist left. There is a war on the entirety of the private sector. It is the private sector that employs most of you, that services most of you, that creates the economic prosperity that our nation has enjoyed - and there is a war on that private sector, and it's being waged from the Oval Office, and its foot soldiers are on Wall Street and in other cities around the country.” WarCountryLeftNationsCitiesFeetEconomicStreetsWallOfficeSoldierProsperityEnjoyedTargetSocialistPrivate SectorEntiretyOvalEconomic Prosperity Author:Rush Limbaugh
“When you ban people from predominantly Muslim countries from coming into the U.S., even people who accompanied our soldiers and helped them on the battlefield, but you say, "But, of course, there's gonna be an exception if you're a religious minority," - OK, so that means Christians, there will be a different rule applied to Christians from these countries than others - that's a religious test. And that is completely contrary to our national traditions.” PeopleIfsMeanDifferentCountryChristianCoursesReligiousTraditionTestsSoldierContraryMinoritiesExceptionBattlefieldsBans Author:Tim Kaine
“There are lots of grounds for hope in Israeli society. We are seeing Israelis getting fed up with war, looking for solutions. The youngest soldiers are refusing to serve in the Occupied Territories. Some are volunteering for army combat units but are refusing to serve in the Occupied Territories. We have the elite of the Israeli army, the air force pilots, some of them refusing orders which they consider illegal.” WarOrderForceSeeingAirSolutionsArmySoldierIllegalFedsTerritoryCombatPilotsElitesUnitsVolunteerIsraeliAir ForceFed UpIsraeli Army Author:Uri Avnery
“Like many resisting oppression, Palestinian Gandhis are likely to be found in prisons after being repressed by Israeli soldiers or police or in the hospital after being brutally beaten or worse.” FoundPolicePrisonSoldierOppressionHospitalsPalestinianBeatenIsraeliResistingRepressedIsraeli Soldiers Author:Yousef Munayyer
“In some of the Israeli media, but not all, they read about very nasty things done by Israeli settlers and soldiers to Palestinian Arabs. This is a pain in the neck for many Israelis. They say: Leave us alone, what can we do about it? Or they say: Look at Syria, look at Iraq, the West Bank is paradise by comparison. I was one of the first to say, shortly after the Six-Day War, that occupation is corrupting. It corrupts the occupier and, in a different way, it corrupts the occupied.” WayFirstsLooksDifferentWarDonePainMediaSixWestSoldierIraqDifferent WaysParadiseNecksComparisonOccupationPalestinianSyriaNastyIsraeliThings DoneSettlers Author:Amos Oz
“The man is the captain, the women is the lieutenant and the kids are the soldiers. Like right now I'm not home with my kids. I teach my Wisdom so when I'm not there she takes care of the shorties. Just like the sun shines on the moon, and when the earth rotates and the moon is over here, and the sun is over here, and the sun and its shaded on the side we get light from the moon, showing and proving how we're symbolic to the stars and things of that nature.” MenHomeLightCareKidsEarthStarsSidesTeachSunHe ManRight NowMoonProveShiningSoldierTake CareCaptainsSymbolicSun ShinesShine OnLieutenants Author:Rakim
“[Harriet Tubman] is a legend, an icon, a soldier on the side of justice, a spiritual warrior, and a servant of God, as well as the one of the baddest women to literally ever walk the land. I surrendered to her spirit.” WellsSpiritualSpiritSidesJusticeWalksLandSoldierWarriorServantLegendsIconsServant Of GodSpiritual Warrior Author:Aisha Hinds
“I don't know where [Osama bin Laden] is. You know, I just don't spend that much time on him, to be honest with you. I'm more worried about making sure that our soldiers are well supplied, that the strategy is clear, that the coalition is strong.” KnowsWellsStrongClearHonestStrategySoldierBeing HonestWorriedBin LadenCoalitionsOsama Bin Laden Author:George W. Bush
“At one point in time, you've just got to be a brave soldier, and speak up. What are you scared of, you know? So many of our entertainers have that fear because we're afraid of opposition.” KnowsSpeakBraveSoldierScaredOppositionEntertainersBrave Soldiers Author:Steve Harvey
“All I'm saying is [John McCain] cannot look a soldier in the eye and say "Questioning the president is less supportive to you than extending your tour three months." You should be coming home to your family.” ShouldLooksHomeEyeThreePresidentMonthsSoldierOur FamilyComing HomeQuestioningSupportiveThree MonthsMccainExtending Author:Jon Stewart
“From Rome, now the nuncio is on the border where [Ukrainians] are fighting, helping soldiers and the wounded. The Church of Rome has sent so much help there. It's always peace, agreements. We must respect the Minsk accords and so on. This is the entirety. But, don't get scared by that phrase. And this is a lesson that a piece of news must be interpreted with the hermeneutic of everything and not just a part.” HelpingFightingChurchPiecesLessonsNewsSoldierScaredBordersPhrasesAgreementRomeWoundedAccordEntiretyHermeneutics Author:Pope Francis
“I'm happy that now we reveal something about the true Israel, because, you know, now it's Purim, when all the Jews putting mask. And once, we used to have a liberal mask. The most famous mask now in Israel is the mask of a soldier who murdered in cold blood a wounded prisoner of war. Those are the mask that most of the Israeli kids now are using. So, now, when the mask and the true is the same, maybe it's time for Democrats here to stop supporting Israel, if they care about Jews.” IfsKnowsWarCareKidsUsedBloodColdDemocratSoldierJewIsraelMaskPrisonerWoundedIsraeliPrisoner Of War Author:Udi Aloni
“Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain - the Messerschmitt 109 fighter plane for example, the Stuka dive bomber, the 88 millimeter artillery piece, which could be used both for antiaircraft purposes and also shelling on the ground. And American soldiers were the victims of these things in Spain, American volunteers. So this war was really a testing ground for Hitler. And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.” WorldFirstsDifferentWarUsedPurposeDealsPrinciplesPiecesExampleWeaponsWeaknessVictimSoldierTrialsFighterPlanesWar Of The WorldsCombatWorld War IiWorld War IVolunteerNaziTestingSpainStrength And WeaknessBombersArtilleryAmerican Soldier Author:Adam Hochschild
“Modernism really started with people getting infatuated with the idea of "it's the twentieth century, is this suitable for the twentieth century." This happened before the First World War and it wasn't just the soldiers. You can see it happening if you read the Bloomsbury biographies. It was a reaction to a great extent against Victorianism. There was so much that was repressive and stuffy. Victorian buildings were associated with it, and they were regarded as very ugly. Even when they weren't ugly, people made them ugly. They were painted hideously.” PeopleIfsWorldFirstsMadeIdeasWarHappenedCenturyBuildingHappeningsSoldierUglyReactionsWar Of The WorldsBiographies20th CenturyModernismSuitableVictorianFirst World WarInfatuatedUgly People Author:Jane Jacobs
“I have a lot of friends who served in the regular army for a long time. Quite a few of my friends from that time went on to become full-time soldiers. But you live in a world that is entirely army. Your whole world is pretty much that military service, and it's very hard to do other things and to break out of that environment.” WorldLongHardWholeBreakEnvironmentMilitaryLong TimeMy FriendsArmySoldierWhole WorldBreak OutLots Of FriendsMilitary Service Author:Garth Nix
“A lot of my colleagues are content to be character actors who are always in the background. I'm not that guy. I'm the guy who wants the limelight. Gimme the ball and I'll run it through a brick wall for you. I'll be your biggest soldier.” WantCharacterRunningGuyActorsWallBallsSoldierBackgroundsColleaguesBricksThat GuyCharacter ActorsLimelightBrick Wall Author:Terry Crews
“I think it's a real debate how big NATO should be and whether or not it's more provocative than good. Whenever there's a war fought, our soldiers fight it and our dollars pay for it. And, really, our decisions need to be about our national security.” ThinkingNeedsShouldWarRealBigsFightingDecisionPaySecurityDollarsSoldierDebateNational SecurityProvocativeNato Author:Rand Paul
“I have been accused of being a traitor, and I have been accused of not supporting the military. Nothing could be further from the truth. The leaders are the ones who make the decisions. The soldiers do not have the choice. I support the soldiers as human beings.” HumansHas BeensChoicesHuman BeingsDecisionLeaderSupportMilitarySoldierAccusedTraitor Author:Martin Sheen
“The issue of torture, connected to American soldiers, is not somewhere most people want to linger. We may not want to confront this issue so much in the U.S. because of how we want to think about our veterans. There's the sense that we want to think of our veterans as - if they're damaged, damaged by something glamorous, like a firefight.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantMayIssuesSoldierConnectedTortureVeteranGlamorousOur VeteransAmerican Soldier Author:Russell Banks
“Many Israelis can get to know what's really happening. I mean, you have soldiers who go and see things. It's not like France and Algiers or, I don't know, England and Kenya or Belgium and Kenya. It's in your backyard. It's much more about willingness, indecision, the inability, or exposure. There is a decision not to be exposed. People can live like five minutes away from it all.” PeopleKnowsMeanDecisionFiveMinutesHappeningsEnglandSoldierFranceWillingnessExposedInabilityFive MinutesExposureBackyardsKenyaIndecisionBelgium Author:Amira Hass
“If you happen to live in Korea, you might always suffer from anger towards people in power, because of political and social problems. I felt gloomy under this social dictatorship. Looking back, I feel like I never saw a sunrise in Seoul. When I was at university, the policemen used to measure how short the women's mini-skirts were and how long guys' hair was. We were living under a government that considers her people to be soldiers.” PeopleIfsFeelsLongProblemGovernmentMightHappensPoliticalUsedGuySufferingSocialFeltSawsHairUniversitySoldierDictatorshipLooking BackSunriseKoreaPolicemenSkirtsGloomySocial Problems Author:Kim Hyesoon
“We live in a society in the West, where, when men do violent things, they do them under orders. They are soldiers carrying out orders or mafia men carrying out killings for bosses. But the way things happen in the Middle East is not the same as in the West. Look, international capital has been globalized, so Osama bin Laden is globalized. It's not surprising to find followers of bin Laden in all these countries.” MenCountryKillingSoldierThings HappenViolentBossMafiaBin LadenOsama Bin Laden Author:Robert Fisk
“There's this talk that we're asking soldiers to make the greatest sacrifice, but the reality is that civilians bear the burden of war more than the combatants. You're much more likely to get accidentally blown up or killed by a death squad than you are to die in a firefight.” WarRealitySacrificeSoldierBurden Author:Michael Hastings
“A soldier in Iraq said that he wanted to "punch Donald Rumsfeld in the gut, then in the face" or something like that. He wanted me to use his name, but I knew he'd get in trouble, so I didn't. However, I felt it was a great quote because it summed up the frustration of those guys at that moment.” MomentsGuyTroubleSoldierGutsFrustration Author:Michael Hastings