Army Quotes - Page 14

• Stopping an army, isn't that something you try 300 times before you do it?

  Gabrielle

  Trying, Stopping

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• It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline.

  Alfred Jodl

  Character, Should Have, Discipline

  "The Trial of the Germans". Book by Eugene Davidson, p. 347 (August 10, 1938), 1997.

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• In our dreams we have seen another world, an honest world, a world decidedly more fair than the one in which we now live. We saw that in this world there was no need for armies; peace, justice and liberty were so common that no one talked about them as far-off concepts, but as things such as bread, birds, air, water, like book and voice.

  Subcomandante Marcos

  Dream, Book, Air

  Subcomandante Marcos (2011). “Our Word is Our Weapon: Selected Writings”, p.18, Seven Stories Press

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• In previous armies, soldiers used their time to clean their weapons and stock up on ammunition. Our weapons are words, and we may need our arsenal at any moment.

  Subcomandante Marcos

  Soldier, Needs, May

  "A Movement of Movements: Is Another World Really Possible?". Book edited by Tom Mertes and Walden F. Bello, 2004.

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• We are an army of dreamers, and that's why we're invincible.

  Subcomandante Marcos

  Dreamer, Invincible

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• A family of three had become, in Michael Arroyo's young mind, an army of two.

  Mike Lupica

  Two, Mind, Three

  Mike Lupica (2007). “Heat”, p.43, Penguin

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• Let's withdraw from Afghanistan and have the army invade America - that's the only way we'll get new schools and roads.

  Andy Borowitz

  School, America, Way

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from May 02, 2012

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• What would the world be like if you had to develop a power yourself before you could use it? Just as a silly example: How would the comment section on YouTube change if, to use it, you had to have the schooling necessary to have a basic understanding of how computers and the internet work? More seriously, would anyone smart enough to know how to design and build a tank, or a laser guided anti-aircraft missile, or a computer and video editing software be stupid enough to join ISIS? In fact, if such knowledge was required—would it even be possible for there to be standing armies?

  John C. Wright

  Stupid, Smart, Silly

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• In Technologized Desire, the cultural pathologies that mark the panic ecstasy and terminal doom of the posthuman condition are powerfully rehearsed in the language of science fiction. Here, images of prosthetic subjects, zombies, cut-ups and armies of the medieval dead actually slip off the pages of literature to become the terminal hauntology of these technologized times. Technologized Desire is nothing less than a brilliant data screen of future memories. Read it well: it's a survival guide for bodies flatlined by the speed of accelerating technology.

  Arthur Kroker

  Memories, Cutting, Technology

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• Each year, the The U.S. Army & its contractors SHOOT, STAB, MUTILATE, & KILL more than TEN THOUSAND live animals in cruel training exercises.

  Oliver Stone

  Exercise, Animal, Years

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• An army of philosophers would not be sufficient to change the nature of error and to make it truth.

  Averroes

  Errors, Philosopher, Sufficient

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• Treasures and armies do not make a king. A true king is a king within himself.

  Rumi

  Kings, Treasure

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• Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.

  Vera Nazarian

  Fall, Soldier, Loyal

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• It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book.

  Sara Sheridan

  Baby, Book, Village

  Sara Sheridan (2016). “Brighton Belle”, p.247, Kensington

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• Governments move armies, but only individuals can move hearts. And with every act of love that emanates from any of us, we are activating miracles, adding to a spiritual ocean that in time will purify our planet of all vestiges of fear. Love alone can triumph over hate, and if we give it the chance, it will.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Hate, Ocean

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• A chiropractor accomplished in three weeks what the army doctors haven't been able to do in two years.

  George Kennedy

  Doctors, Years, Two

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• It has been said by a certain general, that the first object in the establishment of an army ought to be making provision for the belly, that being the basis and foundation of all operations.

  Frederick The Great

  Prussia, Foundation, Firsts

  "Military Instructions". Article II: Of the Subsistence of Troops, and of Provisions, 1747.

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• One symptom of his (Hitler) being strangely at variance with reality, or the nature of things,was his gift for wearing inappropriate of ludicrous clothing...When he was supposed to be starting a militaristic revolution he was wearing evening dress and an ill-fitting black tailcoat...and his army medals.

  A. N. Wilson

  Reality, Black, Evening

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• A standing army is like a standing member. It's an excellent assurance of domestic tranquility, but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure.

  Elbridge Gerry

  Adventure, Temptation, Tranquility

  Constitutional Convention, 1787.

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• In 1494, King Charles VIII of France invaded Italy. Within months, his army collapsed and fled. It was routed not by the Italian army but by a microbe. A mysterious new disease spread through sex killed many of Charles’s soldiers and left survivors weak and disfigured. French soldiers spread the disease across much of Europe, and then it moved into Africa and Asia. Many called it the French disease. The French called it the Italian disease. Arabs called it the Christian disease. Today, it is called syphilis.

  Carl Zimmer

  Christian, Kings, Sex

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• The wisdom of the chess player is displayed more in winning over a capable opponent than a novice. The wisdom of the general is displayed more in defeating a superior army than in subduing an inferior one. Even more so, the wisdom of God is displayed when He brings good to us and glory to Himself out of confusion and calamity rather than out of pleasant times.

  Jerry Bridges

  Winning, Player, Confusion

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.123, NavPress

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• And what have we now in Germany? A land of bankers and car-makers. Even our great army has gone soft. Soldiers wear beards and question orders. I am not ashamed to say I believed in National Socialism. I still wear the Iron Cross with diamonds Hitler gave me. But today in all Germany you can't find a single person who voted Adolf Hitler into power. Many Germans feel guilty about the war. But they don't explain the real guilt we share - That we lost.

  Hanna Reitsch

  Real, War, Order

  "The first astronaut: tiny, daring Hanna" by Ron Laytner in The Deseret News (pp. C1+, 12C), February 19, 1981.

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• Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Mistake, Victory, Brilliant

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• Women who make a house a home make a far greater contribution to society than those who command large armies or stand at the head of impressive corporations.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Home, House, Corporations

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.177, Harmony

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• Who am I? this or the other?
  Am I one person today and tomorrow another?
  Am I both at once? A hypocrite before others,
  and before myself a contemptible woebegone weakling?
  Or is something within me still like a beaten army fleeing
  in disorder from a victory already achieved?
  Who am I? They mock me, these lonely questions of mine.
  Whoever I am, Thou knowest, O God, I am thine!

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Lonely, Hypocrite, Victory

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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