Military Quotes - Page 4

War becomes a part of you. It is a feeling just as much as an experience. If you can’t feel it, you weren’t paying attention. And if you weren’t paying attention, you are probably dead anyway.

God works through people by stirring their hearts and sometimes people never know how they are helping others.

Peace surfaced here. Hard to imagine a person finding peace through war, but no one finds peace in war - peace finds you. It crawls into your sleeping bag and helps you fall asleep, nudges your arm, tells you to turn over, think about home.

The only lies that are true are the ones that you believe.

Evan no longer tells people I fight bad guys for a living. When asked, he tells his friends that his dad talks on the phone a lot and vacuums on occasion.

Are you okay, man?"
"Yeah, I'm good."
It's a lie. I wonder if I will ever be good again.

Our culture has become so obsessed with celebrity that it’s easy to confuse fame with success. They are not the same thing.

Appearances can be misleading. You just never know what’s inside someone until he’s tested.

If freedom is free and none need worry, then what blood drops for thee?

I’ll give you one chance to run,
but may your shoulder always whisper in your ear…

“It’s best to watch out for men, like me.

In recent years, academics, policy-makers, and experts have raised the question of the applicability of peacetime environmental law in times of armed conflict.

Lack of accountability weakens the environmental and health rights of citizens; it damages peace- building and reconciliation initiatives; impedes the implementation of global health policies; leads to the loss of ecosystems and biodiversity; and weakens democracy, justice, human rights, and international security.

Toxic remnants of war represent a profound challenge for the protection of public health and the restoration of the environment in countries affected by conflict.

Across the world, the lack of accountability for the harm to the environment and public health caused by conflict and military activities undermines global efforts to help fragile countries recover from armed conflicts

The essence of the Marine Corps experience, I decided, was pain.

We were not told how Alexander the Great was the last person in history to successfully 'pacify' what would become Afghanistan, over 2,000 years ago.

Federal Officer: "The arms piled on the ground were not worth 10 cents a ton.

They bright whiten all this sepulchre with powdered chloride of lime. It's a perfectly sanitary war.

As suddenly the whole world would slip back into a mollifying, untormented dark; their aching bodies knew its calm.

...and how is a man to know the habits of their God, whether He smites suddenly or withholds, if you mishandle the things set apart, the objects of His people He is jealous of.