Quote:- War crimes, you say?No matter how many policies you put on paper, in reality, there are no rights and wrongs in war. War itself is a crime. War cannot be justified. I believe, the only people, in this world, whose opinions matter, are the ones who go the extra mile to help other people expecting nothing in return. Soldiers who fight fiercely for their country, the doctors in Sri Lanka's public hospitals attending to hundreds of patients at a time for no extra pay , the nuns who voluntarily teach English and math to children of refugee camps in the north, the monks who collect food to feed entire villages during crises, they are the people worth listening to, their opinion matters. So find me one of them who will say: they wish the war didn't end in 2009, that they wish Sri Lanka was divided into two parts. Find me one of them who agrees with the international war crime allegations against Sri Lanka, and I will listen. But I will not listen to the opinions of those who are paid to find faults in a war they were never a part of, a war they never experienced themselves. I will not listen to the opinions of those who watched the war on tv or read about it on the internet or were moved by a documentary on Al Jazeera. The war is over. The damage is done. Let Sri Lanka move on. So our children will never have to see what we've seen.
Author:- Thisuri Wanniarachchi
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice, — is often the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.
Principles of Political Economy
Author:- John Stuart Mill
Category:- motivational
Quote:- War is like fire. You cannot control it. Once you start it. Everyone will die or be hurt by it. Including innocent people and it is difficult to stop it.
Author:- De philosopher DJ Kyos
Category:- best
Quote:- War is not just about to shoot the gun and kill, it's a real chess game
"Zaki's Gift Of Love"
Author:- Mohammed Zaki Ansari
Category:- best
Quote:- War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.
Wealth of Words
Author:- Amit Kalantri
Category:- knowledge,motivational,philosophy,best
Quote:- War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it. War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out.
Author:- Joseph de Maistre
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. Armies are not called out to dig trenches, to throw up breastworks, to live in camps, but to find the enemy and strike him; to invade his country, and do him all possible damage in the shortest possible time. This will involve great destruction of life and property while it lasts; but such a war will of necessity be of brief continuance, and so would be an economy of life and property in the end.
Author:- Stonewall Jackson
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Wars are raging in our hearts, peace is but a ghost, in the endless valleyof violence.
In The Absence Of Sound
Author:- Priyanka Mehta
Category:- Life
Quote:- Was Deirdre right about me purposely wanting relationships that were impossible?
Shadow Kiss
Author:- Richelle Mead
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- Was I insane? Maybe. But then, there were many different kinds of insanity. Aunt Rose had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness, but a fact of life, like pimples. Some have more, some have less, but only truly abnormal people have none at all. This commonsense philosophy had consoled me many times before, and it did now, too.
Juliet
Author:- Anne Fortier
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?'The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly.Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he's in love with you.'Didn't you mean them?'At the moment.
The Painted Veil
Author:- W. Somerset Maugham
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- Was it only age which made someone respect somebody? Were it only relationships? Surely not. It was something more than that.
Stella - An extraordinary tale of an ordinary girl
Author:- Neelam Saxena Chandra
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- Was it wisdom? Was it knowledge? Was it, once more, the deceptiveness of beauty, so that all one's perceptions, half way to truth, were tangled in a golden mesh?
To the Lighthouse
Author:- Virginia Woolf
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- Was it wisdom? Was it knowledge? Was it, once more, the deceptiveness of beauty, so that all one’s perceptions, half-way to truth, were tangled in a golden mesh? Or did she lock up within her some secret which certainly Lily Briscoe believed people must have for the world to go on at all? Every one could not be as helter skelter, hand to mouth as she was. But if they knew, could they tell one what they knew? Sitting on the floor with her arms round Mrs. Ramsay’s knees, close as she could get, smiling to think that Mrs. Ramsay would never know the reason of that pressure, she imagined how in the chambers of the mind and heart of the woman who was, physically, touching her, were stood, like the treasures in the tombs of kings, tablets bearing sacred inscriptions, which if one could spell them out, would teach one everything, but they would never be offered openly, never made public. What art was there, known to love or cunning, by which one pressed through into those secret chambers? What device for becoming, like waters poured into one jar, inextricably the same, one with the object one adored? Could the body achieve, or the mind, subtly mingling in the intricate passages of the brain? or the heart? Could loving, as people called it, make her and Mrs. Ramsay one? for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge, she had thought, leaning her head on Mrs. Ramsay’s knee.
To the Lighthouse
Author:- Virginia Woolf
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?
Orlando
Author:- Virginia Woolf
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Was then not all sorrow in time, all self-torment and fear in time? Were not all difficulties and evil in the world conquered as soon as one conquered time, as soon as one dispelled time?
Author:- Hermann Hesse
Category:- time
Quote:- WAS THIS WHAT LOVE WAS? Being happy when you thought about someone; wanting to never stop thinking abou tthem, even when you were fighting; having every damn thing in the grocery store remind you of them, from diapers to sour cream; wanting to be a better writer and friend and person because of how they were and how they made you feel; wanting to be with them, all the time, even though you kept fighting it.
The Proposal
Author:- Jasmine Guillory
Category:- Love
Quote:- Was war ein guter Mensch? Was war richtig und falsch? Das war nicht so einfach. Nichts auf der Welt hatte bloß eine Farbe. Bloß eine Antwort. Eine Perspektive.
Seelenfall
Author:- Michaela Weiß
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- Wasn't it better if they kept this desire to see each other hidden within them, and never actually got together? That way, there would always be hope in their hearts. That hope would be a small, yet vital flame that warmed them to their core-- a tiny flame to cup one's hands around and protect from the wind, a flame that the violent winds of reality might easily extinguish.
1Q84
Author:- Haruki Murakami
Category:- hope