Warfare Quotes - Page 18

• Fencing is more a sport than a martial art. It would be like basing your knowledge of roman phalanx warfare on NFL football.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Sports, Football, Art

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• The idea of separating church and state by the Founding Fathers of America was freedom from the domination of one form of religion, because many of them left England, because they were persecuted by the church, because they want to express their Christian faith in a different way. So it was a bit of warfare between Christians.

  John Lennox

  Christian, Father, Ideas

  Source: www.christiantelegraph.com

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• According to the letter of the Gita, it is possible to say that warfare is consistent with renunciation of fruit.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Letters, Fruit, Gita

  Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi”, p.23, North Atlantic Books

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• We must also recognize the new realities of modern warfare and the modern landscape of a battlefield.

  Susan Davis

  Reality, Landscape, Modern

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• Many in the American military have learned the fundamental dilemma of modern warfare: More money and better weapons don't mean that you win.

  Gabriel Kolko

  Military, Mean, Winning

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• You don't buy into huge car chases or sensates or interstellar warfare, but you can buy into a loving relationship or a father-son relationship, and you can buy into the small humor. If you want to make your fiction universal, go small. That's the best way to do it.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Father, Son, Car

  Source: collider.com

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• In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Gita, Characteristics

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.35, Courier Corporation

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• The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.

  Alexander Pope

  Earth, Wit

  Alexander Pope, William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Colley Cibber (1804). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope: with his last corrections, additions and improvements”, p.61

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• We see in the 20th Century an unfortunate trench warfare, in which psychoanalysis, in a struggle against the internalized compulsion and superstition of a particular doctrine, has expressed itself atheistically. By contrast, theology is not merely under suspicion of talking soullessly about God. Both theology and psychology, in striving for human health, need one another like the right and the left hand.

  Eugen Drewermann

  Struggle, Hands, Talking

  Speech at a conference of therapists in Basel, Switzerland, May 21, 1977.

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• Whatever happens in the country, whatever warfare harasses our land, we will never relinquish our hold on Western learning. As long as this school of ours stands, Japan remains a civilized nation of the world.

  Fukuzawa Yukichi

  Country, School, Land

  Yukichi Fukuzawa, Eiichi Kiyooka (1966). “The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa”, p.211, Columbia University Press

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• It's emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves.

  Lauryn Hill

  Emotional, People

  "MTV Unplugged 2.0". Live album by Lauryn Hill, 2002.

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• The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.' The reason is that beliefs guide behavior, which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

  Michael Crichton

  Religious, Fighting, Animal

  Michael Crichton (1996). “The lost world”

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• For the helmsman is recognized in the tempest; in the warfare the soldier is proved.

  Cyprian

  Soldier, Tempest

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• the miserable specimens who call themselves ' liberals ' are really conservatives: they're desperately even hysterically defending a welfare-warfare kleptocracy that is now at least four generations old, against growing numbers of us (unlike Republicans , who seem to become more ignorant with every passing year) who have actually managed to learn something from history and are struggling to dismantle said kleptocracy.

  L. Neil Smith

  Struggle, Numbers, Years

  "A Matter of Definition". The Libertarian Enterprise Article, www.ncc-1776.org. August 08, 2010.

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• No attempt of any kind must be made at rescuing members of ships sunk, and this includes picking up persons in the water and putting them in lifeboats, righting capsized lifeboats, and handing over food and water. Rescue runs counter to the most primitive demands of warfare for the destruction of enemy ships and crews. Be hard, remember that the enemy has no regard for women and children when he bombs German cities.

  Karl Donitz

  Running, Children, Cities

  Orders issued on September 17, 1942. "The Trial of the Germans". Book by Eugene Davidson, p. 406, 1997.

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• There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Army, Instance

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• Meditation practice is regarded as a good and in fact excellent way to overcome warfare in the world; our own warfare as well as greater warfare.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Meditation Practice, Overcoming, World

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings”, p.30, Shambhala Publications

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• In Iraq we are fighting against men with blind hatred and armed with lethal weapons who are capable of any atrocity. They wear no uniform; they respect no laws of warfare or morality. They take innocent lives to create chaos for the cameras.

  George W. Bush

  Fighting, Men, Law

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• In warfare, there are no constant conditions. He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent will succeed and win.

  Sun Tzu

  Art Of War, Winning, Tactics

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• It is not surprising that only one medieval state, Venice, long possessed anything clearly identifiavble as a navy in this sense. We shall see that no state in the British Isles attained attained this level of sophistication before the 16th century, and no history of the Royal Navy, in any exact sense of the words, could legitimately begin much before then. This book, which does, is not an institutional history of the Royal Navy, but a history of naval warfare as an aspect of national history. All and any methods of fighting at sea, or using the sea for warlike purposes, are its concern.

  Nicholas Rodger

  Book, Fighting, Sea

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• Recognising that an ostentatious cult of heroism and state service served an important propaganda function for the British elite does not mean, of course, that we should dismiss it as artificial or insincere. All aristocracies have a strong military tradition, and for many British patricians the protracted warfare of the period was a godsend. It gave them a job, and, more important, a purpose, an opportunity to carry out what they had been trained to do since childhood: ride horses, fire guns, exercise their undoubted physical courage and tell other people what to do.

  Linda Colley

  Strong, Horse, Jobs

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• Chilvalry's essential function, Maurice Keen has written, is always to hold up an idealised image of armed conflict in defiance of the harsh realities of actual warfare. By definition, chivalry also reaffirms the paramount importance of custom, hierarchy and inherited rank.

  Linda Colley

  Reality, Essentials, Definitions

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• In Stalin's Russia racial persecution was often disguised as class warfare. More than 1.5 million members of ethnic minorities died as a result of forced resettlement.

  Niall Ferguson

  Russia, Class, History

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• Known as a negative player, Karpov sets up deep traps and creates moves that seem to allow his opponent possibilities - but that really don't. He takes no chances, and he gives his opponents nothing. He's a trench-warfare fighter who keeps the game moving just an inch at a time.

  Bruce Pandolfini

  Moving, Player, Games

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• There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.

  Bell Hooks

  Children, Addiction, Abuse

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