The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My uncle… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
You can have all the advanced war methods you want, but, after all, nobody has ever invented a war that you don't… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
My 'Sam Gamgee' is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war,… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The loss of my childhood was the price for becoming the youngest world champion in history. When you have to fight every… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
We can guess that the unacceptable conduct of the soldiers at Abu Ghraib resulted in part from the dangerous state of affairs… — John Yoo Copy Share Image
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight. If they will face death,… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Many of our soldiers are stationed at Camp Coyote just south of the Iraqi border. This is how you know we have… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
“The American flag doesn't give her glory on a peaceful, calm day. It's when the winds pick up and become boisterous, do… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
I did some embedded stuff. And if you are embedded, the only things you see are what the soldiers see, and if… — Yaroslav Trofimov Copy Share Image
Soldiers may be wounded in battle and sent to a hospital. A hospital isn't a shelf. It's a place of repair. And… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
Whether we consider Nazi Germany or Abu Ghraib prison, there were many people who observed what was happening and said nothing. At… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
We were required to predict a soldier's performance in officer training and in combat, but we did so by evaluating his behavior… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“There is no glory in being a featherbed soldier, a man bedecked with gorgeous medals, but never beautified by a scar, or… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
There is a Greco-Buddhist school of architecture and sculpture that you find everywhere in the world. It's fascinating, because Alexander died in… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries you have these great nation states hurling their young men at one another. The victory was… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming We're finally on our own This summer I hear the drumming Four dead in Ohio Gotta get… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He… — Ernie Pyle Copy Share Image
“Unquestionably, the intelligent, educated man makes, in the long run, the best soldier. There is no place for the mere brute in… — Albertus Wright Catlin Copy Share Image
From the time I was twelve years old until I retired last year at the age of fifty-seven, the Army was my… — Norman Schwarzkopf Copy Share Image
I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by… — Ernst Kaltenbrunner Copy Share Image
“A man is never so vulnerable in a battle as when he flees," Lord Eddard has told Jon once. "A running man… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
I think it's possible - perhaps even necessary - to find comedy in any war. I mean, look at the brilliant work… — Dave Abrams Copy Share Image
I think deconfliction with the Russians is probably the maximum that we can do. But deconfliction is enough to prevent us killing… — Kori Schake Copy Share Image
“[Stephenson] believes that, as research becomes more airborne and more office-bound, we generalize more and more, and we lose the vast range… — Peter Steinhart Copy Share Image
And it was as if fate had betrayed the soldier. In death it exposed to his enemies that poverty which in life… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
We have a responsibility as ex-soldiers to realise we're no longer in the military. All this 'once a soldier, always a soldier',… — Ant Middleton Copy Share Image
I crossed paths with a horse that happened to change my life. That horse is Game On Dude, and what a horse!… — Chantal Sutherland Copy Share Image
“You would think ill of a soldier who refused to fight unless victory was certain. The person who needs religion to bolster… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
What shall I say further? Shall I not stop short and leave to your imaginations to portray the tragic deeds of war?… — Deborah Sampson Copy Share Image
For, as I said a little way back, perfect souls are in no way repelled by trials, but rather desire them and… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
I somewhere along the way became fascinated with exploring characters who are willing to put themselves into violent situations, whether it's football,… — Peter Berg Copy Share Image
I think matching up Vietnam vets with these Iraqi vets would be a really great thing. When soldiers say only other soldiers… — Nina Berman Copy Share Image
Every American soldier wants as much public support as he can possibly have. That's the soldiers on duty in Iraq, and that's… — John Abizaid Copy Share Image
I met soldiers coming back from war and I was impressed by their description of PTSD, all the symptoms: the outburst of… — Alice Winocour Copy Share Image
Even well-known historians like Edward Gibbon are talking about how the soldiers of the 18th century were not able to do the… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Many soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from serious, long-term, physical and mental health problems, due to their service. It is… — Mark Dayton Copy Share Image
I have seen children shot in El Salvador, Algeria, Guatemala, Sarajevo, but I have never before watched soldiers entice children like mice… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
'The Wall' doesn't recount a specific soldier's experience in Iraq, but it captures the spirit of many experiences that were shared with… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
“Thomas stares at the floor between us with hollow eyes. “I loved him, June,” he says after a moment. “I really did.… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image