Warfare Quotes - Page 13

• As bronze may be much beautified by lying in the dark damp soil, so men who fade in dust of warfare fade fairer, and sorrow blooms their soul.

  Wilfred Owen

  Lying, Dark, Men

  Wilfred Owen, Douglas Kerr (1994). “The Poems of Wilfred Owen”, p.73, Wordsworth Editions

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• The use of [the atomic bombs] at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons... The lethal possibilities of atomic warfare in the future are frightening. My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.

  William D. Leahy

  Fashion, Children, War

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• There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.

  John Henry Newman

  War, Law, Done

  'Apologia pro Vita Sua' (1864) 'Mr Kingsley's Method of Disputation'

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• Guerrilla warfare is used by the side which is supported by a majority but which possesses a much smaller number of arms for use in defense against oppression.

  Che Guevara

  Numbers, Majority, Defense

  Che Guevara (2002). “Guerrilla Warfare”, p.52, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

  Gregory Bateson

  Art, Sleep, Commerce

  "Mind and Nature, a necessary unity". Book by Gregory Bateson, 1988.

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• There are no violent gangs fighting over aspirin territories. There are no violent gangs fighting over whisky territories or computer territories or anything else that's legal. There are only criminal gangs fighting over territories covering drugs, gambling, prostitution, and other victimless crimes. Making a non-violent activity a crime creates a black market, which attracts criminals and gangs, which turns what was once a relatively harmless activity affecting a small group of people into a widespread epidemic of drug use and gang warfare.

  Harry Browne

  Fighting, Drug Use, Epidemics

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• It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both sides. It will be guerilla warfare on a global scale, with no front lines and no identifiable enemy.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Christian, Religious, War

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.106, Pan Macmillan

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• Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war. Yet despite this capacity for internecine warfare, most companies roll along relatively peacefully, year after year, because they have routines—habits—that create truces that allow everyone to set aside their rivalries long enough to get a day’s work done.

  Charles Duhigg

  War, Years, Long

  Charles Duhigg (2012). “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change”, p.162, Random House

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• In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.

  John Boyd Orr

  Government, Gunpowder, Use

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• If left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons. Should he succeed in that endeavor, he could alter the political and security landscape of the Middle East, which as we know all too well affects American security.

  Hillary Clinton

  Iraq, Wmd, Mass Destruction

  Hillary Clinton's Senate speech, October 10, 2002.

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• For an event that was wholly created in the poisonous psychological warfare kitchens of the Second World War, run by the ministries of propaganda in many countries, not just by the British or the Americans, but also the Russians and undoubtedly the world Jewish organizations.

  Ernst Zundel

  Country, Running, War

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• It was with the last revolution and the coming of INGSOC (Inglish/English Socialism) that the latest High learnt how to keep their position permanently - by cultivating ignorance among the other classes and by constantly surveying them through the Thought Police. Part of this strategy included the maintenance of a state of continual warfare, which Goldstein discussed in the third chapter. The three major powers were not fighting this perpetual war for victory; they were fighting to keep a state of emergency always present as the surest guarantee of authoritarianism.

  George Orwell

  War, Ignorance, Fighting

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• When you look at where team sports are going, the National Football League is turning into organized warfare.

  Oren Lyons

  Sports, Football, Team

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• This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare.

  James Forrestal

  Country, Luxury, Hype

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• Man is made of opinions,—of truth and error; and his life is a warfare like all other lives before him.... Man goes on developing error upon error till he is buried in his own belief.... It is the office of wisdom to explain the phenomena in man called disease, to show how it is made, and how it can be unmade. This is as much a science as it is to know how to decompose a piece of metal.

  Phineas Quimby

  Health, Men, Errors

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• Now, I stand alone on this rock, fighting the errors of this world, and establish the science of life by my works. What is my mode of warfare? With the axe of truth I strike at the root of every tree of error and hew it down, so that there shall not be one error in man showing itself in the form of disease.

  Phineas Quimby

  Health, Fighting, Men

  Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (1921). “The Quimby Manuscripts”, p.272, Library of Alexandria

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• "Jobs for every American" is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all.

  Jerry Brown

  Jobs, Talking, Automation

  "Jerry Brown Speaks Out on Welfare Reform: 'That's the Way I See It'". Jerry Brown's "We the People" talk show in the Pacifica Radio station, February/March 1995.

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• For peace is not simply the absence of warfare, based on a precarious balance of power; it is fashioned by efforts directed day after day toward the establishment of the ordered universe willed by God, with a more perfect form of justice among men.

  Pope Paul VI

  Men, Perfect, Justice

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• We never announced a scorched-earth policy; we never announced any policy at all, apart from finding and destroying the enemy, and we proceeded in the most obvious way. We used what was at hand, dropping the greatest volume of explosives in the history of warfare over all the terrain within the thirty-mile sector which fanned out from Khe Sanh. Employing saturation-bombing techniques, we delivered more than 110,000 tons of bombs to those hills during the eleven-week containment of Khe Sanh.

  Michael Herr

  Hands, Enemy, Bombs

  Michael Herr (2011). “Dispatches”, p.153, Vintage

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• Our senior officers knew the war was going badly. Yet they bowed to groupthink pressure and kept up pretenses. ...Many of my generation, the career captains, majors, and lieutenant colonels seasoned in that war, vowed that when our turn came to call the shots, we would not quietly acquiesce in halfhearted warfare for half-baked reasons that the American people could not understand.

  Colin Powell

  Senior, War, Government

  Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.149, Ballantine Books

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• Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that. Our chief method is to learn warfare through warfare. A person who has had no opportunity to go to school can also learn warfare — he can learn through fighting in a war.

  Mao Zedong

  War, Reading, School

  "Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works".

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• In industrialized warfare, where the representation of events outstripped the presentation of facts, the image was starting to gain sway over the object, time over space. Soon a conflict of strategic and political interpretation would ensue, with radio and then radar completing the picture.

  Paul Virilio

  Space, Political, Radio

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• Physical training is mental warfare!

  Tae Yun Kim

  Training, Physical Training

  Dr. Tae Yun Kim (2011). “Seven Steps to Inner Power”, p.3, Jung SuWon

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• Unless the digital divide is narrowed soon, the United States may be headed to the class warfare of a century ago, the last time the economy changed so fundamentally. It won't be pleasant.

  Jonathan Alter

  Class, United States, May

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• Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie.

  Adam McKay

  Lying, Class, Increase

  "The F Word" by Adam McKay, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2012.

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