I was born into Sudan’s civil war, and before I could read or write, I was using an AK47 in the conflict between the Muslim north and Animist/Christian south over the land and natural resources.
The Berlin Wall wasn’t the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.
The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.
A nation’s ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability.
Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
If we had a hydrogen economy worldwide, every nation on earth could create its own energy source to support its economy, and the threat of war over diminishing resources would just evaporate.
I’ve got to see the Brexit process through. we won the war, but we must win the peace.
I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife’s brother.
Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most.
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
War destroys people’s souls. Most people focus on physical injuries, but the invisible injuries can take a lifetime to heal and affects the lives of generations to come.
Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
We’ve waged war on work. We have collectively agreed, stupidly, that work is the enemy.
War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
‘Madras Cafe’ is set against the backdrop of the civil war in Sri Lanka in the 1990s.
In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was all underground, but they needed the food of freedom that jazz offered.
It’s the first war we’ve ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign.
There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.
A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.
The only thing that kept the Cold War cold was the mutual deterrence afforded by nuclear weapons.
Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.
No one hates war like a soldier hates war.
In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, ‘69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam. But it’s worth remembering that the war in Vietnam started – an outright war started in 1962.
