The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. Aldous Huxley beingcondemnconvention share on social
I'm of Russian-Jewish background. Like many Soviet Jews, my parents were engineers. My family migrated from Ukraine to Israel when I was six. They arrived in Israel with very little... Within a year of arriving in Israel, the Yom Kippur War happened. Sasha Roiz arrivebackgroundengineer share on social
War is what happens when language fails. Margaret Atwood faillanguagewar Change image and share on social
Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam. Marshall McLuhan americabattlefieldbring Change image and share on social
My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother. Al Pacino armycollegedad share on social
Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace. Ulysses S. Grant advocatefeltfondness Change image and share on social
Accursed be he that first invented war. Christopher Marlowe accursedinventwar Change image and share on social
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. Leo Tolstoy governmenthatchhistory Change image and share on social
War makes thieves and peace hangs them. George Herbert hangmakepeace Change image and share on social
A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war. Henry Van Dyke dependfearpeace Change image and share on social
