war

Love is the only way. There has been enough pain, enough war, enough killing. Enough. No more.

In retrospect, I came to Nagasaki for the regenerative properties. The second atomic bomb blast so many years ago, which had swept up most of the city in a plutonium cloud, had made the city radioactively peace-loving. Reversing the usual cycle that turns victim into perpetrator, the people who stepped from the rubble filled their hearts with a fervent devotion to peace in all its forms.In my mind's eye I see them: wounded and dying, their lungs filled with ash and smoke. The ash sits there for some time, and when they exhale, miraculously, something akin to love comes out.

I guess, my advice would be the following: stay calm and do not let the panic seize you.

The two greatest warriors are Truth and Time. Be sure to march behind, and not against, them.

I'm not that man anymore. No one can stay that way too long. That's why wars end and a later generation catches its breath looking forward and erasing what's behind.

If he can't reach you he can't hit youIf he can't hit you he can't hurt you

He [Harry Bosch] defined good company not by the conversation but by the lack of it. When there was no need to talk to feel comfortable, that was the right company

In the end, it all comes down to the Blood...

I want to introduce my readers to people they may never have met, take them places they may never have visited, and present them with situations they may never have encountered.

There is what we desire to do, and what we are able to do. When those two things don__ coincide, which path should we pursue to find happiness?

In times of war or peace the US will gladly pay a man to fail should his heart be in it, a small shimmering proof of the American dream.

War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly.

The leave zipped right by. We were so terrifically glad to be back to our own little section of the trench, with all its happy memories, that we wouldn__ have traded places with anybody. The lazy bastard who__ filled in while we were away hadn__ managed to nibble away so much as an inch of garden soil in the direction of Berlin.We found out that Brugnon hadn__ come back from leave. He__ hanged himself in the stairwell of his building, on rue des Gâtines. He left a note to say he couldn__ take it any more and asked us to count him out. We accepted it_ Who were we to judge?

Victorious troops are those who kill more, and here we were the victims. This put the finishing touch to our demoralisation. The soldiers had lost conviction long ago. Now they lost confidence.

We know__ore from the faces immortalized on a handful of photographs than from the words of survivors__hat the women and men who experienced that moment in Hiroshima believed they had encountered the beginning of the end of the world. There will never be enough future to prove them wrong.

If you do not want to stop the wheels of progress; if you do not want to go back to the Dark Ages; if you do not want to live again under tyranny, then you must guard your liberty, and you must not let the church get control of your government. If you do, you will lose the greatest legacy ever bequeathed to the human race__ntellectual freedom.Now let me tell you another thing. If all the energy and wealth wasted upon religion__n all of its varied forms__ad been spent to understand life and its problems, we would today be living under conditions that would seem almost like Utopia. Most of our social and domestic problems would have been solved, and equally as important, our understanding and relations with the other peoples of the world would have, by now, brought about universal peace.Man would have a better understanding of his motives and actions, and would have learned to curb his primitive instincts for revenge and retaliation. He would, by now, know that wars of hate, aggression, and aggrandizement are only productive of more hate and more human suffering.The enlightened and completely emancipated man from the fears of a God and the dogma of hate and revenge would make him a brother to his fellow man.He would devote his energies to discoveries and inventions, which theology previously condemned as a defiance of God, but which have proved so beneficial to him. He would no longer be a slave to a God and live in cringing fear!

Victory will not go to those who can inflict the most suffering, but to those who can survive the most.

Only those who do not care, only those who find a way to diminish or extinguish the value of other human beings, survive wars without damage and speak of warrior honor afterward.