Azimeh

“Despite the shameless false advertising from air power buffs, precision bombing did not become technically feasible for nearly three decades, until late in the Vietnam War.”
― S.C.M. Paine, The Wars for Asia, 1911–1949

“رنج از سه جهت ما را تهدید میکند
از طریق جسم که میدانیم از دستش میدهیم و روزی نابود میشود
از طریق جهان بیرون که میدانیم نیرویی خارج از کنترل ما و غیرقابل پیش بینی ست و این موضوع ما را به شدت میترساند
از طریق روابط ما با دیگران، این رنج شاید بزرگترین و سخت ترین نوع رنج باشد”
― پونه مقیمی, تکه‌هایی از یک کل منسجم

“To the bulk of the English people India was a remote, fantastic, almost inaccessible land, to which adventurous poor young men went out, to return after many years very rich and very choleric old gentlemen. It was difficult for the English to conceive what the life of these countless brown millions in the eastern sunshine could be. Their imaginations declined the task. India”
― H.G. Wells, A Short History of the World

“We may not even meet again, Francis, till the map of Europe has been rewritten with the blood of many of our friends and millions of our country-people.”
― E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Double Traitor