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Victory Quotes - Page 47

A priest can achieve great victories with an army of women at his command.

A priest can achieve great victories with an army of women at his command.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1875). “Hostages to Fortune: A Novel”, p.13

The victory over Euclidean space was not achieved by isolated individuals, but by a field of young rebels opposed to all absolutes.

"Laws of Media: The New Science". Book by Marshall McLuhan, co-written with Eric McLuhan, p.42, 1988.

I've imagined great victories, and I've imagined great races. The races are better.

Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.275, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I had done battle with a great fear and the victory was mine.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.155, Booklassic

Wars, therefore, are to be undertaken for this end, that we may live in peace, without being injured; but when we obtain the victory, we must preserve those enemies who behaved without cruelty or inhumanity during the war.

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Cyrus R. Edmonds (1863). “Three Books of Offices; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers”, p.21

A clear victory of satyagraha is impossible so long as there is ill will.

Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

I don't see a situation where one side will win militarily, take over Syria, and there will be peace and quiet, a clean victory.

"Kofi Annan on 40 Years Trying to End War, Promote Peace at the United Nations". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. September 18, 2012.