War Quotes - Page 19

So long as victory can be attained, stupid haste is preferable to clever dilatoriness.

Sun Tzu

When your army has crossed the border, you should burn your boats and bridges, in order to make it clear to everybody that you have no hankering after home.

Sun Tzu

If there is disturbance in the camp, the general's authority is weak.

Sun Tzu

the worst calamities that befall an army arise from hesitation

Sun Tzu

You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended.

Sun Tzu

When the outlook is bright, bring it before their eyes; but tell them nothing when the situation is gloomy.

Sun Tzu

Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.

Sun Tzu

if you fight with all your might, there is a chance of life; where as death is certain if you cling to your corner

Sun Tzu

You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked.

Sun Tzu

We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors.

Sun Tzu

Whether in an advantageous position or a disadvantageous one, the opposite state should be always present to your mind.

Sun Tzu

There are not more than five primary colors (blue, yellow, red, white, and black), yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen.

Sun Tzu

When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is INSUBORDINATION.

Sun Tzu

When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is COLLAPSE.

Sun Tzu

The principle on which to manage an army is to set up one standard of courage which all must reach.

Sun Tzu

We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country -- its mountains and forests, its pitfalls and precipices, its marshes and swamps.

Sun Tzu

Danger has a bracing effect.

Sun Tzu

first lay plans which will ensure victory, and then lead your army to battle; if you will not begin with stratagem but rely on brute strength alone, victory will no longer be assured

Sun Tzu

If we wish to wrest an advantage from the enemy, we must not fix our minds on that alone, but allow for the possibility of the enemy also doing some harm to us, and let this enter as a factor into our calculations.

Sun Tzu

To begin by bluster, but afterwards to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence.

Sun Tzu

Be stern in the council-chamber, [Show no weakness, and insist on your plans being ratified by the sovereign.] so that you may control the situation.

Sun Tzu

Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day.

Sun Tzu

If you do not take opportunity to advance and reward the deserving, your subordinates will not carry out your commands, and disaster will ensue.

Sun Tzu

mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy

Sun Tzu

If he sends reinforcements everywhere, he will everywhere be weak.

Sun Tzu

To the issues of friendship, love, business and war, "surprise" is the optimistic solution.

The technical developments of almost every form of wealth [e.g., oil, minerals] are the forebears of Big Business; and Big Business, directly or indirectly, is the immediate cause of War.

Aleister Crowley

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because they imagine it is the only thing that stops women laughing at them. In it they can reduce women to the status of objects. That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see relationships between objects. Whether the objects need each other, love each other, match each other. It is an extra dimension of feeling we men are without and one that makes war abhorrent to all real women - and absurd. I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships.

War makes animals of men, and we can't let that happen to us. If we do, we won't have any chance of survival.

Shannon A. Thompson

There is a cruelty that lurks in some men’s souls which is only released when they have other men in their power.

Morgan Llywelyn

Military intervention cannot liberate women because it is embedded within a set of assumptions, beliefs, and social relations that reinforce and reproduce gender inequality, as well as other social inequalities within and across nation-states. Military intervention depends upon a belief in the legitimacy of armed violence in resolving political problems, which in turn depends upon our adherence to particular ideas about what it means to be a man or a woman.

O my Mansoul, I have lived, I have died, I live, and I will die no more for thee. I live that thou mayest not die. Because I live thou shalt live also; I reconciled thee to my Father by the blood of My cross, and being reconciled thou shalt live through me. I will pray for thee, I will fight for thee, I will yet do thee good. Nothing can hurt thee but sin; nothing can grieve Me but sin; nothing can make thee base before thy foes but sin; take heed of sin, my Mansoul.

War doesn't have heroes, it only has the men who lost so many things in their life that they just keep going and do the most unthinkable things, just because they don't care anymore.

Wouter Van Gastel

But it's natural for men to compete against each other. We've been doing it since the cave days. Why else do we have wars? Wars are competition, no matter what the politicians call them.

For women, men creates war, even though women are the symbols of love, peace, and harmony.

Debasish Mridha

Men may fight the battle, but women wage the war.

Katlyn Charlesworth

...men are poor soldiers in love's war. And it is a war-one that never ends.

Games? War is not a game, my friend. Games are for small children and old men like me. War is a young man's blighted delight

What was it with women and pushing men’s buttons?I get that a woman wants to look attractive. News flash: you already do. We see it. But apparently to women, owning their own beauty isn’t enough. They arm all the weapons in their arsenal to gain the attention of every Y chromosome within a ten-mile radius. Why do they go to all the trouble? Validation.Meanwhile, biology dictates survival of the fittest; battles ensue, wars are fought, and somewhere amid all the carnage, a victor emerges to claim his female. All because said female just wanted to go out and feel pretty that night.

He feared no challenger face-to-face, but war was deception, as Khevat had taught him, and not all men fought their enemies with spear and fist.

I was out of the war because men like this were too scared to talk about dick.

Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other.

Stephen E. Ambrose

As day is to a sword, night is to a shield.

Anthony Liccione

If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

My squad was my family, my gun was my provider and protector, and my rule was to kill or be killed. The extent of my thoughts didn’t go much beyond that. We had been fighting for over two years, and killing had become a daily activity. I felt no pity for anyone.

If you are a warrior, the nature and scale of your enemies will determine the nature and scale of your actions. In this sense, it is even more important to choose your enemies more wisely than your friends.

Today's enemies can be your friends tomorrow. And today's friends can be tomorrow's enemies.

Today's opponents can be your allies tomorrow. And today's allies can be tomorrow's opponents.

War is a kind of superstition, the pageantry of arms and badges corrupts the imagination of men.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

He had seen how the spirit, the reserves in [Bond], could pull him out of badly damaged conditions that would have broken the normal human being. He knew how a desperate situation would bring out those reserves again, how the will to live would spring up again in a real emergency. He remembered how countless neurotic patients had disappeared for ever from his consulting rooms when the last war had broken out. The big worry had driven out the smaller ones, the greater fear the lesser. He made up his mind. He turned back to M. "Give him one more chance.

Nationalism and ethnic pride, in the long run, delay human development, and the misery they cause must be recognized. If enough people saw that , maybe we wouldn't have so many wars.

When we stand up for what we believe in—for what’s right—there is always a chance that we risk the very things we fight for: our safety, our lives, our freedom. But if we stand down, the risk is definite.

Kelseyleigh Reber

This life is ironic: for it takes pain to discover pleasure; it takes sadness to know happiness; it takes war to value peace; and it takes hatred to treasure love.[Culled from: "Amara & The Strange Elderly Woman"]

Emmanuel Aghado

Eyes so young, so full of pain ... Two lonely drops of winter rain ... And no tear could these eyes sustain ... For too much had they seen.

In past wars only homes burnt, but this timeDon't be surprised if even loneliness ignites.In past wars only bodys burnt, but this timeDon't be surprised if even shadows ignite.

Sahir Ludhianvi

I WILL FOLLOW ANYONEAND TELL EVERYONEABOUT...THE REAL WAR ON WOMENON YAZIDI GIRLS & WOMEN

WHILE THE WORLD'S ASLEEP, ANGELS REFUSE TO SLEEP!

The digging continues ... Ground Zero it looks more and more like a construction site. Too much of the horror is gone. No fire. No smoke ... What was war becomes peace, becomes peaceful. But in the coil of my testicles there's an angry residue and in places I can't even name, places inside my throat and behind my chest, I'm sad, and sometimes worse than sad, less than sad, a cavity of empty.

Bitterness*Broken men Walk away from broken sonsWho stab them in the gutIn angerAnd bitternessFor crimes they are both not guilty ofLife is a bitch sometimes-------------------------2014©rassool jibraeel snyman – 16/5/2014“The Poetic Assassin

rassool jibraeel snyman

Precisely because a living being may die, it is necessary to care for that being so that it may live. Only under conditions in which the loss would matter does the value of the life appear. Thus, grievability is a presupposition for the life that matters.

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