Borders are scratched across hearts of men and when borders bleed we watch the lines of ink along the map turn red

If water won't smother the blazeFather, take my tears and bestow them on the firesee if the fires will wither.

It is an extraordinary thing but it is true, wars are only a means of publicising the things already accomplished.

He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.

Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in love.

Clear now that she was as dependent as any addict on the drug of the war. He had underestimated the damage in her.

Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, “What kind of peace?

They arouse in themselves a wild vicious hunger more like animals than men. I did not know that war was like this.

The Englishman left months ago, Hana, he's with the Bedouin or in some English garden with its phlox and shit.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

When deliberating, think in campaigns and not battles; in wars and notcampaigns; in ultimate conquest and not wars.

The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling. (Varys)

No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's

It wasn't so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly.

...according to the teachings of Islam, war is to be waged not against the enemy but against the aggressor. (p. 49)