War Quotes - Page 230

The forces of adversaries are more diminished by the loss of those who flee than of those who are killed.

Never lead your soldiers to battle if you have not first confirmed their spirit and known them to be without fear and ordered; and never test them except when you see that they hope to win.

A prince ought to have two fears, one from within, on account of his subjects, the other from without, on account of external powers.

The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able to attain everything: so that the desire being always greater than the acquisition, there results discontent with the possession and little satisfaction to themselves from it. From this arises the changes in their fortunes; for as men desire, some to have more, some in fear of losing their acquisition, there ensues enmity and war, from which results the ruin of that province and the elevation of another.

The best fortress which a prince can possess is the affection of his people.

We may think of peace as the absence of war, that if the great powers would reduce their weapons arsenals, we could have peace. But if we look deeply into the weapons, we will see our own minds - our own prejudices, fears, and ignorance.

I don’t think we have conclusive proof that humans are at the center of [global warming]

War proves nothing. To kill a man does not prove that he was in the wrong. Bloodletting cannot change men's spirits, neither can the evil of men's thoughts be driven out by blows. If I go to my neighbor's house, and break her furniture, and smash her pictures, and bind her children captive, it does not prove that I am fitter to live than she - yet according to ethics of nations it does. I have conquered her and she must pay me for my trouble; and her house and all that is left in it belongs to my heirs and successors, forever. That is war!

Here is a fearful enemy of God and man — the liquor traffic; it makes ruthless war upon the people; it blasts and destroys their homes as with pestilence and fire; it kills savagely, cruelly, more than a hundred thousand of them every year; robbing them first and driving wives and children to rain and despair.

In war, as in love, we must come into contact before we triumph.

A man like me troubles himself little about a million men.

All generals, officers, and soldiers who capitulate in battle to save their own lives should be decimated.

It would be a joke if the conduct of the victor had to be justified to the vanquished.

Either greed belongs in a war zone, or it doesn't. You can't unleash it in the name of sparking an economic boom and then be shocked when Halliburton overcharges for everything from towels to gas, when Parsons' sub, sub, sub-contractor builds a police academy where the pipes drip raw sewage on the heads of army cadets and where Blackwater investigates itself and finds it acted honorably. That's just corporations doing what they do and Iraq is a privatized war zone so that's what you get. Build a frontier, you get cowboys and robber barons.

If we lose this war, I'll just start another in my wife's name.

I think massive migration is inevitable. As sea levels rise, as climate change happens, as fertile fields become arid, as wars are fought, people are going to move. They always have.

What's up, gangstas? It's the M-I-Double-Tizzle.

My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.

Every great general and warrior from the beginning of time was high.

Bridges are burning all around us; bridges to responses that might have mitigated the already brutal (and just beginning) ravages of Peak Oil; bridges to reduce the likelihood of war and famine; bridges to avoid our selectively chosen suicide; bridges to change at least a part of energy infrastructure and consumption; bridges to becoming something better than we are or have been; bridges to non-violence. Those bridges are effectively gone.

The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth.

The outward work can never be small if the inward one is great, and the outward work can never be great or good if the inward is small or of little worth.

Angels want peace; devils want war! Wise man wants tranquillity and creation; stupid man wants noise and destruction!

The State practices "violence," the individual must not do so. The state's behavior is violence, and it calls its violence "law"; that of the individual, "crime".

...according to the teachings of Islam, war is to be waged not against the enemy but against the aggressor. (p. 49)