“People have been fighting and dying over religion for thousands of years. I could understand that fear. It creeps up on you… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“Looking down over the railing, Prince Nesvitsky could see the splashing low waves of the fast-moving Enns as they rippled and swirled,… — Leo Tolstoy Anthony Briggs Translator Copy Share Image
South Korea first allowed women into the military in 1950 during the Korean War. Back then, female soldiers mainly held administrative and… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
“We walked over to the soldiers and tried to act natural. Well, as natural as we can act after a ride like… — Sophie Wilkinson Copy Share Image
“The soldiers chuckled. One of them, a grizzled veteran, rose and walked over to where Duncan and his two senior officers were… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
We want the Army to be society's model of fair treatment. We want to assure that all soldiers are treated fairly, not… — Silas L. Copeland Copy Share Image
“They say the German soldiers fight blindly, with only such knowledge of their objectives as is absolutely necessary to send them forward.… — Albertus Wright Catlin Copy Share Image
“The man who did the shouting at the P.S.U.C. post down on our right was an artist at the job. Sometimes, instead… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Thomas More syas that the imperial troops, for their enjoyment, are roasting live babies on spits. Oh, he would! says Thomas Cromwell.… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I wasn't thinking of a sequel when I finished 'Life Class.' What changed my mind was the perception that the characters had… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
At 19, your brain hasn't finished wiring itself. So the first time you have a good friend die, most people don't go… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
“I wanted to leave the whole war behind me, and yet I was seeing something on that battlefield that demanded commemoration. It… — Robert Hicks Copy Share Image
One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art form in the sense that… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
The soldiers feel that the Police are not serious with the criminal elements and that they are corrupt. The army had to… — Yoweri Museveni Copy Share Image
“[W]e cease to be soldiers in the army of the upright; we become deserters. They march to battle. We float with the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A common and natural result of an undue respect for law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I grew up in a time when people believed in duty, honor and country. My grandfathers were both officers. My father was… — Kris Kristofferson Copy Share Image
It's not just professional athletes and soldiers who are at risk from traumatic brain injury. More than 1.7 million people a year… — Anne Wojcicki Copy Share Image
“that what matters is not the mind but the boot brush, not intelligence but the system, not freedom but drill. We became… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“Soldiers, all men in fact, are natural hero worshipers. Officers with a flare for command realize this and emphasize in their conduct,… — Robert L. Moore Copy Share Image
Even soldiers from the Vietnam War had said that when they were fighting in that war, the landmine was just one of… — Jody Williams Copy Share Image
“I took the thin magazine from the pouch in front of me and began to thumb through it. I felt self-conscious, as… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, four or five soldiers with round helmets and guns in hand enter the courtyard. One of them, presumably the commander, knocks… — Mary Louise Roberts Copy Share Image
I think how veterans are treated in our country is an abomination. We don't have the draft any more, which is why… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
“We were trained in the army for ten weeks and in this time more profoundly influenced than by ten years at school.… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“How the soldiers had lain, slain and forgotten, no marker for their demise, no songs to their name, not even mourners who… — R.W. Schmidt Copy Share Image
“In the colonial countries, on the contrary, the policeman and the soldier, by their immediate presence and their frequent and direct action… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
“But you’ll always find people telling stories about supposedly better days. You watch. A man joins a new team of soldiers, and… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“FORGET FERES DOCTRINE And the military has immunity! Yes! The feres doctrine! It states “the Government is not liable under the Federal… — Diane Chamberlain Copy Share Image
We have to have a conversation about whether Obama's plan to increase spending to occupy Afghanistan helps make America a safer country,… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
“so many white roses whose names won’t survive either, resistance groups and newspapers now as forgotten as soldiers waiting for the enemy… — Marie-Claire Blais Copy Share Image
“Don't we all deal with life the way we do our military service? Doing what we can, while we wait either to… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
To expect ... the same service from raw and undisciplined recruits, as from veteran soldiers, is to expect what never did and… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Among men, it seems, historically at any rate, the processes of coordination and disintegration follow each other with great regularity, and the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“this act is engraved in my mind deeper than any other experience in my two tours in Vietnam. A huge black enlisted… — Harold G. Moore Copy Share Image
The military mind has one aim, and that is to make soldiers react as mechanically as possible. They want the same predictability… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
“The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Our military leaders don't seize power in coups; our soldiers and sailors don't go on strike for higher pay or benefits; our… — Kathleen Troia McFarland Copy Share Image
Soldiers join the military to serve their country, but when bullets are flying, it's hard to fight for an abstract notion like… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image