War Quote by Matthew Mather Download Open image ““The use of the shemagh and keffiyeh had been adopted by US troops since the war in Iraq”” — Matthew Mather ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare War
“Soldier's fashion accessory is his weapon just like a jewelry for women.” — Pushpa Rana Copy Share Image
“I, along with our fourteen soldiers, set off into the urban wilderness of Baghdad. We had six humvees, lots of ammunition, over a million… — Brandon Friedman Copy Share Image
“after the war, historian Marilyn Young warned: The U.S. can destroy Iraq’s highways, but not build its own; create the conditions for epidemic in Iraq, but not offer health care to millions of Americans. It can excoriate Iraqi treatment of the Kurdish minority, but not deal with domestic race relations; create homelessness abroad but not solve it here; keep a… — Howard Zinn Copy Share
“And so, my beloved Kermit, my dear little Hussein, at the moment America changed forever, your father was wandering an ICBM-denuded watseland, nervously monitoring his radiation level, armed only with a baseball bat, a 10mm pistol, and six rounds of ammunition, in search of a vicious gang of mohawked marauders who were 100 percent bad news and totally had to… — Tom Bissell Copy Share
“The Americans have always been better than the Iraqis at the leaflets. Early on in the first Gulf War, Iraqi PsyOps dropped a batch… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“Each returning soldier is an in-the-flesh memoir of war. Their chapters might vary, but similar imagery fills the pages, and the theme of every… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“A favorite pastime of soldiers on long mounted patrols was testing each other with impossible hypotheticals. They were an endearing yet vulgar form of… — Mike MacLeod Copy Share Image
“Allow the spit of the soldiers to symbolize the filth in our hearts. And then observe what Jesus does with our filth. He carries… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“Nothing—not even the US Army—more threatens the future of a democratic, pluralistic and (dare we wish, secular) Iraq than the political ascendancy of Islamic… — Marc Cooper Copy Share Image
“Army had solicited ideas for a better armored vehicle—to sell to the Iraqis, not for U.S. use.” — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
“Stepping through the foot of snow and ash covering the roof, she found the stairway down. The door was locked. She chambered a round… — Matthew Mather Copy Share Image
“A democracy based on fear is not a democracy. Fear of the commies, fear of the terrorists—it never ends! You know who else used… — Matthew Mather Copy Share Image
“Everything needs to be vetted by a million committees, and we’re afraid of practically everything. We’re just not willing to accept risk anymore, and… — Matthew Mather Copy Share Image
“Without artificial light, humans were scared animals that scurried into their nests at sunset. Darkness brought out the monsters that existed in our primal… — Matthew Mather Copy Share Image
“This cyberwar felt like it had nothing to do with the future but was a part of the past, as if we were burrowing… — Matthew Mather Copy Share Image
“Damon stared at me while Chuck read the message, a tendon in his neck flexing. “And we need more guns,” said Chuck from between… — Matthew Mather Copy Share Image
“The only meaning to life is the one that you give it, and don't let anyone tell you diffrent.” — Matthew Mather Copy Share Image
“didn’t take the bait. “Have you been introduced to the Borodins?” I motioned toward the elderly Russian couple at the table beside them. Aleksandr,… — Matthew Mather Copy Share Image
“Do people really want to make the world a better place?” I asked. “Or do they just want to make a better place for… — Matthew Mather Copy Share Image
“Any technology that was sufficiently advanced seemed like magic to someone unfamiliar,” — Matthew Mather Copy Share Image
“Reaching down, I pulled out the other bags and began stuffing them into my backpack while I looked to the next glowing red circle,… — Matthew Mather Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
“People came to our house from far and wide. Party and military bigwigs, some guy known as the “combat commander,” the village headman, and… — Masaji Ishikawa Copy Share Image
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a batter. Love is a war. Love is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The world," said Pavone, "will swing to the left. The whole world except America. The world will swing, not because people read Karl Marx,… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Five days or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last longer. — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I don't want to go into space because of war. I think we would if it was triggered. If China said they want to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a… — David Simon Copy Share Image
“Fear and desire for pleasure. Aggressiveness comes out of fear, predominantly, and sexuality predominantly out of the other. But they mix in the middle.… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image