War Quotes - Page 188

If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight.

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands

If it is to your advantage, make a forward move; if not, stay where you are.

If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.

I will not dance to your war drum!

You're not alone, are you? Because I'm here

Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.

When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power to shock. To acknowledge human nature, many think, is to endorse racism, sexism, war, greed, genocide, nihilism, reactionary politics, and neglect of children and the disadvantaged. Any claim that the mind has an innate organization strikes people not as a hypothesis that might be incorrect but as a thought it is immoral to think.

Life moves on and so should we

It is an old custom amongst Jewish children, to become war-like on the 'L'ag Beomer.' They arm themselves from head to foot with wooden swords, pop-guns and bows and arrows. They take food with them, and go off to wage war.

In the past, most wars were motivated by the idea of nationhood. Today, however, wars are incited above all using religion as an excuse.

In every war, there are always elements of blindness.

Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.

There are people who want awards because it changes the perception of the audience. But I'm not into all that.

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits

I have seen the rise and fall of Nazi tyranny, the subsequent cold war and the nuclear nightmare that for fifty years haunted the dreams of children everywhere. During that time my generation defeated totalitarianism. As a result, your world is poised for better tomorrows. What will you do on your journey?

If you sacrifice liberty for security, you will lose both.

Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged in Iraq on false pretenses, Bush connected with Americans in the aftermath of 9/11 because he looked as frail and unforgiving as we felt.

We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.

When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that time, during the early fifties, at the time of the Korean War.

...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery.

We made a great mistake in the beginning of our struggle, and I fear, in spite of all we can do, it will prove to be a fatal mistake. We appointed all our worst generals to command our armies, and all our best generals to edit the newspapers

The enemy is here, and if we do not whip him, he will whip us.

If you piss your pants, you can only stay warm for so long.

The media and politics have never allowed our people to speak through them. The absolute marginalization of the indigenous peoples is a fact, as is sophisticated militarization. These have been the most significant ingredients in the silent war.