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It was surprising that Nature had gone tranquilly on with her golden process in the midst of so much devilment.
Stephen Crane1871–1900The Red Badge of Courage (1895), Chapter VIn context
- Nature
At times he regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way. He conceived persons with torn bodies to be peculiarly happy. He wished that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage.
Stephen Crane1871–1900The Red Badge of Courage (1895), Chapter IXIn context
- Courage
He had fought like a pagan who defends his religion.
Stephen Crane1871–1900The Red Badge of Courage (1895), Chapter XVIIIn context
- Religion
The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau1712–1778The Social Contract (1762), Book I, Chapter IVIn context
- Power
Arms, and the man I sing, who, forc’d by fate,
And haughty Juno’s unrelenting hate,
Expell’d and exil’d, left the Trojan shore.
Virgil70–19 BCThe Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IIn context
- Poetry
The liberal military code makes provision for hanging many kinds of persons, and gentlemen are not excluded.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1890)In context
- Laws
And ’mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772–1834Kubla Khan (1816), Kubla KhanIn context
For war from now on is the Women’s affair.
Aristophanes446–386 BCLysistrata (411 BC), spoken by LysistrataIn context
- Women
If, when yarn we are winding, It chances to tangle, then, as perchance you may know, through the skein
This way and that still the spool we keep passing till it is finally clear all again:
So to untangle the War and its errors, ambassadors out on all sides we will send
This way and that, here, there and round about⁠—soon you will find that the
War has an end.
Aristophanes446–386 BCLysistrata (411 BC), spoken by LysistrataIn context
- Politics
He became not a man but a member. He felt that something of which he was a part⁠—a regiment, an army, a cause, or a country⁠—was in crisis. He was welded into a common personality which was dominated by a single desire.
Stephen Crane1871–1900The Red Badge of Courage (1895), Chapter VIn context
There will be peace when we will achieve our goals.
Vladimir Putinborn 1952Said in annual Q&A session, quoted in “Putin says there will be no peace in Ukraine until Russia’s goals, still unchanged, are achieved”, AP News (14 December 2023)
We will strive for the demilitarization and de-Nazification of Ukraine.
Vladimir Putinborn 1952“Putin’s ‘Nazi’ rhetoric reveals his terrifying war aims in Ukraine”, Vox, 24 February 2022
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
The Bible (King James Version)The Gospel of Luke (1611), Luke 2:14 (KJV)In context
- Christmas
- God
For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?
The Bible (King James Version)1 Corinthians 14:8 (KJV)In context
- Leadership
And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Gospel of Mark (1611), Mark 13:7 (KJV)In context