top of page
.png){kind=small}
"By fighting a limited, defensive war, America permitted the enemy to endlessly re-supply their field armies."
Standard
Customized
More
"War sells!"
Author Name
Personal Development
"They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason."
Author Name
Personal Development
"That's my town,' Joaquin said. 'What a fine town, but how the buena gente, the good people of that town, have suffered in this war.' Then, his face grave, 'There they shot my father. My mother. My brother-in-law and now my sister.' 'What barbarians,' Robert Jordan said. How many times had he heard this? How many times had he watched people say it with difficulty? How many times had he seen their eyes fill and their throats harden with the difficulty of saying my father, or my brother, or my mother, or my sister? He could not remember how many times he heard them mention their dead in this way. Nearly always they spoke as this boy did now; suddenly and apropos of the mention of the town and always you said, 'What barbarians."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You want war??...Out there you can find books, films about the war how brutal is it. If you disire for more... it sounds like you are cruel, so far I can understand it you are the bad guy, aren't you?"
Author Name
Personal Development
"In the Second World War he took no public part, having escaped to a neutral country just before its outbreak. In private conversation he was wont to say that homicidal lunatics were well employed in killing each other, but that sensible men would keep out of their way while they were doing it. Fortunately this outlook, which is reminiscent of Bentham, has become rare in this age, which recognizes that heroism has a value independent of its utility. The Last Survivor of a Dead Epoch."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Om rubed his head. This wasn't god-like thinking. It seemed simpler when you were up here. It was all a game. You forgot that it wasn't a game down there. People died. Bits got chopped off. We're like eagles up here, he thought. Sometimes we show tortoise how to fly. Then we let go."
Author Name
Personal Development
"War is what happens when language fails."
Author Name
Personal Development
"America is the world's top war-master, the most sophisticated killer-culture in history."
Author Name
Personal Development
"War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it."
Author Name
Personal Development
"At war, there's no right or wrong.Winner's right while loser's wrong."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam."
History
"During the Fifties, political and military activities in Vietnam were heavily influenced by the French, who as recent colonial masters, made all-important decisions."
Decision-Making
"After the 1954 Geneva international conference, Vietnam was divided into two parts. On paper, North and South Vietnam were twin countries born at the same moment."
Nation
"I have been blessed often by Buddha, but equally by America."
Society
"Americans are big boys. You can talk them into almost anything. Just sit with them for half an hour over a bottle of whiskey and be a nice guy."
Politics
"If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes."
Peace
"If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations."
War
"We all know that in war the political and military factors have to complement each other."
War
"The way Americans understand and treat other peoples almost guarantees that the world will suffer more trouble."
Society
"Through leadership of the fight against French colonialism, Ho Chi Minh had made a name for himself in the international political arena."
Leadership
bottom of page