Wars tend to be very public things, they are visible. There are correspondents traveling with the troops and you get daily dispatches.
I didn't want to say anything. I liked Star Wars when I was ten.
Whenever in future wars the battle is fought, armored troops will play the decisive role.
We fight wars from progressively great heights and distances, the blessings of technology steadily removing the personal human element from what was historically an extremely personal experience.
Within your own generation-the same songs, the same wars, the same attitudes toward those wars, the same rules and radio shows in the air-you can gauge the possibilities and impossibilities. With a person of another generation, you are treading water, playing with fire.
Star Wars' is more fairy tale than true science fiction.
I believe we will see a biofuels resurgence. While gas prices skyrocket and we continue to wage wars for oil, while spills, fracking, tar sands and the oil madness of our empire continue, people are waking up and realizing that you can't be against petroleum and against fuels that come from nature.
I watch a lot of astronaut movies. . . . Mostly Star Wars. And even Han and Chewie use a checklist.
It was important for me to show that Beirut and Lebanon were once the pearl of the Middle East. Beirut was once called the Paris of the Middle East and to have that feeling of a destroyed place that once was beautiful and glamorous and visually impressive was important. I think it's even sadder to get the feeling that this country, and indeed the whole Middle East, could have been a major force in the world if people would get together and forget about destruction, death and wars. But unfortunately, it's not happening yet.
Nationalism stems from catastrophes, whether they are caused by earthquakes or lost wars.
Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness
It's very common to say that Star Wars in the late '70s, that was kind of perfect for Cold War culture and the aftermath of Vietnam in the '60s to have an upbeat, hopeful, cartoonish tale of a hero's journey. I think those explanations are easy to offer and almost always wrong.
Wars based on principle are far more destructive. . . the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.
I would like the whole world to be full of feminine qualities. Then only can wars disappear.
Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.
Each time I had five hours of the poison going into me, I just pictured everything that needed to be burned away. I pictured wars, I pictured the things my father had done to me, I pictured brutality, and when it was over, I am light.
Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars That make ambition virtue! O, farewell! Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, th' ear-piercing fife, The royal banner, and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!
Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.
There'll always be wars because men love wars. Women don't, but men do.