53 Quotes About Invasion

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.

But there were too many points at which the other self could invade the self he wanted to preserve, and there were too many forms of invasion: certain words, sounds, lights, actions his hands or feet performed, and if he did nothing at all, heard and saw nothing, the shouting of some triumphant inner voice that shocked him and cowed him.

Some things take hold of you. Invade you. Own you. You want to be free of them, but you never will be.

As we were leaving the camp, I wondered whether refugee and IDP camps are a sign of compassion towards displaced people, or are they signs of how far humans have gone in causing harm to each other?

The unimaginable atrocities inflicted on this city [Mosul] by a group of mercenaries known as ISIL should undoubtedly be considered one of the most horrendous crimes of the twenty-first century.

I thought about how in every ‘Third World’ country that gets ‘liberated’ from its dictators, the first things that go up are luxury hotels and residential areas for Western expats and gated communities from which to administer the newly formed governments in places like Baghdad’s Green Zone.

Africa wants to kick down our door, and Brussels is not defending us. Europe is under invasion already, and they are simply wringing their hands.

Those who do no halt mass migration are lost: slowly but surely they are consumed.

We must kill the guard before we can enter the palace.