Quotes of: Civil-war Keyword

But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.

The Art of War

Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible; and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.

The Art of War

Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted.

The Art of War

You see a lot of jargon junkies in the navy. Usually means they don’t know their ass from a hole in the ground. The rallying cry is .

The Aardvark Is Ready For War

Thus, what enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge.

The Art of War

A clever general, therefore, avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return.

The Art of War

To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill

The Art of War

If, on the other hand, in the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate ourselves from misfortune.

The Art of War

5,6. The Moral Law causes the people to be in complete accord with their ruler, so that they will follow him regardless of their lives, undismayed by any danger.

The Art of War

He wins his battles by making no mistakes. Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated.

The Art of War

Here there was no shelter for his soul. There were no houses for a home. It was all a wilderness. It was all a battlefield. It was wild, without a friend. It was all a broken battlefield.

Angel War

I would have married her before I went away to war too, just to make sure that someone else didn’t.

Black Art

Today is yesterday's victory, yesterday is tomorrow's conquest, and tomorrow is today's war. Though I face death, I am not fearsome.

Burning Bridges

Well, if that’s what you call being at peace, for heaven’s sake just warn me before you go to war, will you?

Babbitt

On bad days you wonder, ‘Why not just back off from the war and lead a quiet metalife?

The Bone Clocks

A blanket could be used to stop gun violence. Make sleep, not war.


Brick and Blanket Test in Brick City (Ocala) Florida

Peace is such hard work. Harder than war. It takes way more effort to forgive than to kill.

The Bitter Kingdom

Who is to say that robbing a people of its language is less violent than war?

Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

This was one of the casualties of war, that trust itself seemed to die a thousand deaths.

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

You want Paradise, you gotta build it on war, on blood, on envy and naked greed.

The Book of Strange New Things

In a field hospital, some ten kilometres behind the lines, Marius lay dying. For three days he had been dying and it was disturbing to the other patients.

The Backwash Of War