Millitary Quotes

“Machines can do many things, but they cannot create meaning. They cannot answer these questions for us. Machines cannot tell us what we value, what choices we should make. The world we are creating is one that will have intelligent machines in it, but it is not for them. It is a world for us.”
― Paul Scharre, Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War

“With the potentially disruptive issue of the role of Islam in the state temporarily out of the way, the praetorian guard and its mandarin friends sanguinely accepted the constituent assembly’s stance on fundamental rights. As they knew only too well, the proof of the pudding lay in the eating.”
― Ayesha Jalal, The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics

“War is a smell -- a smell of filth, a smell of sweat, a smell of flesh, a smell of blood, a smell of death; war is a smell that never goes away.”
― Shon Mehta, Lair Of The Monster

“What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you squarely in the eye and said he would rather die than be killed in combat, a man who was at least as mature and inteligent as you were and who you had to pretend was not? What could you say to him?”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22