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"A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth."

— Tim O'Brien (The Things They Carried)

"There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it."

— Havelock Ellis

"Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate."

— Alice Walker

"Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won."

— Walt Whitman (Leaves of Grass)

"I'm ruined beyond repair, is what I fear...And if so, in time we'd both be wretched and bitter."

"I know people can be mended. Not all, and some more immediately than others. But some can be. I don't see why not you."

"Why not me?"

— Charles Frazier (Cold Mountain)

"One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror. "

— George W. Bush

"The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five."

— Carl Sagan

"A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril. "

— Winston S. Churchill

"War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner."

— Cormac McCarthy (Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West)

"Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'."

— George Orwell

"The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.

When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out "stop!"

When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer."

— Bertolt Brecht (Selected Poems)

"If tyranny and oppression come to this land it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."

— James Madison

"May god have mercy for my enemies because I won't."

— George S. Patton Jr.

"That shay was in possesion of handgranades was a comforting thought showed what kind of night this had become."

— Scott Westerfeld (Specials)

"How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?"

— Howard Zinn

"Thomas Jefferson once said: 'Of course the people don't want war. But the people can be brought to the bidding of their leader. All you have to do is tell them they're being attacked and denounce the pacifists for somehow a lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.' I think that was Jefferson. Oh wait. That was Hermann Goering. Shoot."

— Jon Stewart

"I no longer feel allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself. I think that Peeta was onto something about us destroying one another and letting some decent species take over. Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences. You can spin it any way you like…but in the end, who does it benefit? No one. The truth is, it benefits no one to live in a world where these things happen."

— Suzanne Collins (Mockingjay)

"Laws are silent in times of war."

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition."

— George S. Patton Jr.

"When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.' --People of sparks--"

— Jeanne DuPrau