Attacking Quotes

• There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Way, Surface, Particular

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.150, Transaction Publishers

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• Confuse the enemy. Keep him in the dark on your intentions. Sometimes what seems a victory isn't really a victory and sometimes a defeat isn't really a defeat. Whether in attacking, counterattacking, or defensive tactics, the idea of attacking should remain central, to always keep the initiative.

  Vo Nguyen Giap

  Dark, Ideas, Enemy

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• Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.

  Socrates

  Light, Darkness, Obscurity

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• Never attack a problem without also presenting a solution.

  Jim Rohn

  Entrepreneur, Problem, Presenting

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 22, 2016

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• It's not that we need to form new organizations. It's simply that we have to awaken to new ways of thinking. I believe it makes no sense to spend a lot of time attacking the current realities. It is time to create the new models that have in them the complexity that makes the older systems obsolete. And to the extent that we can do that, and do that quickly, I think we can provide what will be necessary for a major breakthrough for the future.

  Don Edward Beck

  Believe, Reality, Thinking

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• Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

  Laozi

  Love, Wisdom, Passion

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• We know for a fact the Russians tried to change the outcome of our election, attacking the very fundamental of democracy. We know they did that. We need to know how, we need to know why, and most of all we need to know what to do to prevent this kind of activity, which they continue to carry on in free nations around the world.

  John McCain

  Democracy, Needs, Fundamentals

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I always try to attack. While I'm on the offensive, my opponent can think of nothing but defending.

  Marcelo Garcia

  Inspirational, Sports, Thinking

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• I mean, it’s true, nobody talks about them, but when you bring it up, the idea that you have to rent yourself to somebody and follow their orders, and that they own and you work there, and you built it but you don’t own it, that’s a highly unnatural notion. You don’t have to study any complicated theories to see that this is an attack on human dignity.

  Noam Chomsky

  Respect, Work, Mean

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “On Anarchism”, p.109, New Press, The

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• The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations services and basic education to every person on the planet. And we wonder why terrorists attack us.

  John Perkins

  Education, War, Food

  John Perkins (2004). “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”, p.12, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Military, War

  Sun Tzu (2015). “The Art of War”, Booklassic

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• Science fiction is a great way to pretend you are writing about the future when in reality you are attacking the recent past and the present. You can criticize communists, racists, fascists or any other clear and present danger, and they can't imagine you are writing about them.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Reality, Past

  Source: www.raybradbury.com

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• Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the initiative and thus commands the action. To attack makes men brave; to defend makes them timorous.

  Steven Pressfield

  Men, Brave, Defense

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• A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, "You are mad; you are not like us."

  Anthony the Great

  Religious, Time, Crazy

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• Mediocrity always attacks excellence.

  Michael Beckwith

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Oct 13, 2012

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• Speaking about symmetry, look out our window, and you may see a cardinal attacking its reflection in the window. The cardinal is the only bird we have who often does this. If it has a nest nearby, the cardinal thinks there is another cardinal trying to invade its territory. It never realizes it is attacking its own reflection. Cardinals don't know much about mirror symmetry!

  Martin Gardner

  Reflection, Thinking, Mirrors

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• Examine your own hearts. Do you see there any habit or custom which you know is wrong in the sight of God? If you do, don't delay for a moment in attacking it. Resolve at once to lay it aside. Nothing darkens the eyes of the mind so much, and deadens the conscience so surely, as an allowed sin. It may be a little one, but it is not any less dangerous.

  J. C. Ryle

  Heart, Eye, Sight

  "Thoughts for Young Men". Book by J. C. Ryle, June, 2002.

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• When in doubt, ATTACK!

  George S. Patton

  Military, Doubt, Us Army

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Convince your enemy that he will gain very little by attacking you; this will diminish his enthusiasm

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Enemy

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• It is useless attacking the insensible.

  Aesop

  Reality, Useless, Insensible

  Aesop, Grimm, Andersen (1909). “Folk-Lore and Fable”

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• Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.

  Hendrik Willem van Loon

  Failure, Ignorance, Thinking

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• A mind attacked and conquered is guided easily away from the paths of its own soul.

  Ayi Kwei Armah

  Soul, Mind, Novelists

  Ayi Kwei Armah, Gwendolyn Brooks (1991). “Very Young Poets”, Third World Pr

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• Rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him

  Sun Tzu

  Art Of War, Enemy, Preparing For War

  Sun, Tzu (2015). “The Art of War”, p.103, Aegitas

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• In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Time, War, Patriotic

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• A company can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on firewalls, intrusion detection systems and encryption and other security technologies, but if an attacker can call one trusted person within the company, and that person complies, and if the attacker gets in, then all that money spent on technology is essentially wasted.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Money, Technology, Safety

  "A convicted hacker debunks some myths". Interview with Manav Tanneeru, www.cnn.com. October 13, 2005.

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