Every War Is Ironic Because Every War

Irony Is The Attendant Of Hope And The Fuel Of Hope Is Innocence.

Chickenshit Refers To Behavior That Makes Military Life Worse Than It Need Be: Petty Harassment Of The Weak By The Strong; Open Scrimmage For Power And Authority And Prestige; Sadism Thinly Disguised As Necessary Discipline; A Constant 'paying Off Of Old Scores'; And Insistence On The Letter Rather Than The Spirit Of Ordinances.

The Simple Is Carefully Shunned By Those Who Labour To Seem What They Would Be.

Travelers Learn Not Just Foreign Customs And Curious Cuisines And Unfamiliar Beliefs And Novel Forms Of Government. They Learn, If They Are Lucky, Humility.

The Past Is Not The Present: Pretending It Is Corrupts Art And Thus Both Rots The Mind And Shrivels The Imagination And Conscience.