Quotes of: Wars Keyword

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

Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.

Satish Kumar

War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced.

Alva Myrdal