Battlefields Quotes - Page 5

• True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Boredom, Everyday, Laziness

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• What is common among all of these groups [Taliban, Islamic State etc.] is the intent to destroy. The majority of terrorists who come to Afghanistan are from China, Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan or North Africa. They were expelled from their countries and pushed to ours - this is their battlefield - and all of them, be it the Taliban or others, are interlinked with the criminal economy.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Country, Islamic, Uzbekistan

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We must recognise that we have a great inheritance in our possession, which represents the prolonged achievement of the centuries; that there is not one of our simple uncounted rights today for which better men than we are have not died on the scaffold or the battlefield. We have not only a great treasure; we have a great cause. Are we taking every measure within our power to defend that cause?

  Winston Churchill

  Simple, Men, Rights

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• Digiphrenia - how technology lets us be in more than one place - and self - at the same time. Drone pilots suffer more burnout than real-world pilots, as they attempt to live in two worlds - home and battlefield - simultaneously. We all become overwhelmed until we learn to distinguish between data flows (like Twitter) that can only be dipped into, and data storage (like books and emails) that can be fully consumed.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Real, Book, Home

  "Present Shock - Rushkoff". www.rushkoff.com.

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• War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle. I have a more vivid recollection of the first that the last one I was in. It is a classical maxim that it is sweet and becoming to die for one's country; but whoever has seen the horrors of a battlefield feels that it is far sweeter to live for it.

  John S. Mosby

  Country, Sweet, War

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• The well-run group is not a battlefield of egos.

  Laozi

  Running, Ego, Groups

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• The important man is not the artist, but the businessman who, in the marketplace and on the battlefield, holds the reins in his hands.

  John Heartfield

  Artist, Men, Hands

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• I see battlefields that are under 24-hour real or near-real time surveillance of all types. I see battlefields on which we can destroy anything we can locate through instant communications and almost instantaneous application of highly lethal firepower.

  William Westmoreland

  Real, Communication, Surveillance

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• The battlefield is cold... it is the lonesomest place which men share together.

  Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

  Men, Together, Cold

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• Madaming is the sort of thing that happens to you - like getting a battlefield commission or becoming the dean of women at Stanford University.

  Sally Stanford

  Stanford University, Becoming, Dean

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• I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper.

  Henry Rollins

  War, Tree, Wrapping Paper

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• Without discipline a body of men becomes rabble. Rabble dies, either on the battlefield or in a POW camp.

  W. E. B. Griffin

  Men, Discipline, Body

  W. E. B. Griffin (1982). “Brotherhood of war, book 1: the lieutenants”

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• Make life your playground, not your battlefield.

  Ormond McGill

  Playgrounds

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• The daily coverage of the Vietnamese battlefield helped convince the American public that the carnage was not worth the candle.

  Walter Cronkite

  Carnage, Vietnamese, Coverage

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• If you look at what the factors were going into the decision, of course there are competing interests and values. And one of our values is we bring everybody home off the battlefield the best we can. It doesn't matter how they ended up in a prisoner of war situation... It does not matter.

  Hillary Clinton

  War, Home, Reality

  "CNN Newsroom" with Christian Paul and Victor Blackwell, edition.cnn.com. June 7, 2014.

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• What, then is our duty? It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger-fraught ascent toward salvation.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Life, Military, War

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.578, Simon and Schuster

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• We [in USA] have people honestly believing that, if a president calls a war, you have to shut up and sing. That is not the nation my mother raised me to pledge my allegiance to. We should speak out. We sent thousands of Americans to foreign battlefields to protect our way of life, which includes free speech. If you're not going to use it, it's already lost. We'll find a Mussolini who will tell us what's good for us.

  Phil Donahue

  Mother, War, Believe

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Rules of conduct which govern men in their relations to one another are being applied in an ever-increasing degree to nations. The battlefield as a place of settlement of disputes is gradually yielding to arbitral courts of justice.

  William Howard Taft

  Men, Justice, Degrees

  "Dawn of World Peace", in U.S. Bureau of Education Bulletin, No. 8, 1912.

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• Cyberspace is the battlefield of tomorrow... Instead of confronting us head-to-head on the traditional battlefield, adversaries will confront the U.S. at its point of least resistance- our information infrastructure.

  Fred Thompson

  Military, Cyberspace, Information

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• Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.

  Richard Perle

  War, Men, Ideas

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• We have won an armistice on a single battlefield, not peace in our world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our quest.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Our World, Relax

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• Loves a battlefield it's not a one night stand.

  Kevin Gates

  Night, One Night Stand, One Night

  Song: Twilight

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• The true battlefield is within.

  Mahatma Gandhi

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• It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both in the market place and on the battlefield men who set their hearts on toys have often displayed unequal initiative and drive. And one must be ignorant of the creative process to look for a close correspondence between motive and achievement in the world of thought and imagination.

  Eric Hoffer

  Heart, Men, Imagination

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• As soon as you know the voice and understand what it is, the whole scene changes. The same world which was the ghastly battlefield of maya is now changed into something good and beautiful.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Beautiful

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.46, editionNEXT.com

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