Warlords Quotes

• Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else.

  Ted Rall

  Running, Country, Hands

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• Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Strength, Moving On, Encouraging

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• They're on our right, they're on our left, they're in front of us, they're behind us; they can't get away from us this time.

  Chesty Puller

  War, Military, Marine

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• I guess that when you invade a nation of warlords, you end up having to deal with warlords.

  Peter Dale Scott

  Ends, Deals, Nations

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• Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.

  Alexander the Great

  Sex, Sleep, Army

  "Alexander the Great". Book by Robin Lane Fox, 1973.

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  You are part of the world's most feared and trusted force. Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.

  James Mattis

  Military, Marine Corps, Enemy

  "Eve of Battle Speech". James Mattis' words in a message to the 1st Marine Division, The Weekly Standard, March 1, 2003.

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• Warlords of sorrow and queens of tomorrow will offer their heads for a prayer. You can't find no salvation, you have no expectations anytime, anyplace, anywhere.

  Bob Dylan

  Queens, Prayer, Future

  Song: No Time to Think, Album: Street Legal, 1978

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• Leadership is the sum of those qualities of intellect, human understanding, and moral character that enables a person to inspire and control a group of people successfully.

  John A. Lejeune

  Leadership, Military, Character

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• The most dangerous kind of man is not the one who spent his youth shoving others around. That kind of man gets lazy, and is often too content with his life to be truly dangerous. The man who spent his youth being shoved around, however … When that man gets a little power and authority, he often uses it to become a tyrant on par with the worst warlords in history.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Men, Tyrants, Lazy

  Brandon Sanderson (2014). “The Rithmatist”, p.90, Pan Macmillan

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• More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Peace, War, Government

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• More than just an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Peace, War, Want

  Address written for Jefferson Day Dinner, 13 Apr. 1945. This address was never delivered because of Roosevelt's death on 12 April.

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• The folly and hubris of the policy makers who heedlessly thrust the nation into an ill-defined and open-ended 'global war on terror' without the foggiest notion of what victory would look like, how it would be won, and what it might cost approached standards hitherto achieved only by slightly mad German warlords.

  Andrew Bacevich

  War, Mad, Victory

  Andrew J. Bacevich (2010). “Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War”, p.10, Metropolitan Books

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• You know George W. Bush is a war-time president, he says - proudly. Guess what. War is failure! When you are at war, you have failed! When you have gone to a war of choice and lied about it, you're a double-triple, triple-quadruple failure! Or a warlord. It's called a warlord in other countries. A war time president here. One man's ceiling I guess is another man's floor. George Bush is a warlord. He's a failure!

  Janeane Garofalo

  Country, War, Men

  "The Majority Report" with Janeane Garofalo, July 22, 2005.

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• More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. Yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between Governments. The once powerful malignant Nazi state is crumbling; the Japanese warlords are receiving in their homelands the retribution for which they asked when they attacked Pearl Harbor. But the mere conquest of our enemies is not enough; we must go on to do all in our power to conquer the doubts and the fears, the ignorance and the greed, which made this horror possible.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Peace, Powerful, War

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• The warlords took part in atrocities during the civil war in Afghanistan. They looted, they raped, they killed. They have become incredibly empowered and entrenched. They live in mansions, they have jobs in the government, and they're incredibly powerful. In Kabul, people don't want to speak about it too publicly, because these people are essentially like Tony Soprano.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Jobs, Powerful, War

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• Warlords, dictators and terrorists are normally okay with the U.S., as long as they do the bidding of U.S. corporate interests.

  Brendan Sexton III

  Long, Bidding, Dictator

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• At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general.

  Jung Chang

  Grandmother, Age, Fifteen

  Jung Chang (2008). “Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Our enemies are all those in league with imperialism - the warlords, the bureaucrats, the comprador class, the big Landlord class and the reactionary section of the intelligentsia attached to them. The leading force in our revolution is the industrial proletariat. Our closest friends are the entire semi-proletariat and petty bourgeoisie. As for the vacillating middle bourgeoisie, their right wing may become our enemy and their left wing may become our friend - but we must be constantly on our guard and not let them create confusion within our ranks.

  Mao Zedong

  Struggle, Class, Wings

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

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• In order to assure an adequate national defense, it is necessary - and sufficient - to be in a position in case of war to conquer the command of the air.

  Giulio Douhet

  Military, War, Air

  General Giulio Douhet (2014). “Command Of The Air”, p.51, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• And if our goal as moral citizens is to make the world a better place, then there is only once choice: to pump as much oil as we possibly can out of Fort McMurray. Pump and steam and dig and drill and get that oil out of the sand in any and every way we can. Every drop of oil from Alberta is one less drop from some fascist theocracy, or some brutal warlord; one less cent into the treasuries of Russia's secret police and al-Qaeda's murderers.

  Ezra Levant

  Oil, Russia, Goal

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• What is he doing here?" Curran growled. "He's Roland's Warlord. He's here for me." He was here for the woman who had broken his master's blade. "Tough luck. You're mine.

  Ilona Andrews

  Broken, Luck, Tough

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.236, Penguin

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• The Chinese central government will slowly and steadily lose authority while regional armies [gain power]. The Western powers are going to take sides to protect their investments - they have put billions of dollars into Shanghai. Their fear is that [these investments] are going to be expropriated by a warlord from the interior who will sweep down on Shanghai. They will try to form alliances with warlords to protect their concessions, and there will be a huge flow of weapons into China.

  George Friedman

  Army, Government, Chinese

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I returned to Kabul after a 27-year absence. I came away with some optimism but not as much as I had hoped for. The two major issues in Afghanistan are a lack of security outside Kabul (particularly in the south and east) and the powerful warlords ruling over the provinces with little or no allegiance to the central government. The other rapidly rising concern is the narcotic trade which, if not dealt with, may turn Afghanistan into another Bolivia or Colombia.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Powerful, Years, Two

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• For all the criticism about warlords, it is now likely that Afghanistan will never again be turned over to al Qaeda to train thousands to conduct the type of murder we saw on September 11. For all real problems with ambushes and sabotage, there will be no more gassings, mass murdering, invading neighbors, sending guided missiles across borders or no-fly zones in Iraq, but rather the hard work of consensual government - a difficult process easily caricatured, but when completed universally admired.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Real, Hard Work, Iraq

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• As I have said for two years now, when Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda were cornered in the mountains of Tora Bora, it was wrong to outsource the job of capturing them to Afghan warlords who a week earlier were fighting against us.

  John F. Kerry

  Jobs, Fighting, Years

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