Quotes About Combatants

No combatants are so unequally matched as when one is shackled with error, while the other rejoices in the self-demonstrability of truth.

I've seen so many fighters getting knocked out.

maintaining a strict neutrality between the two potential combatants, a position that favoured, of course, the larger and [...] more belligerent of them.

War can't end terrorism. War is terrorism.

That's one of the horrors of war, that you can train a person, train them to hate, train them to kill. It's a terrible thought.

The preparations of both the combatants were in every department in the last state of perfection;

preparations of both the combatants were in every department in the last state of perfection;

The spectator, the contemplator, the opposer of war have their hours with the enemy no less than uniformed combatants

Beer production was reduced in all the European combatants, but the reduction was more severe among the Central Powers: a fall of two-thirds for Germany, compared with just over half for Britain.

We only love the fray so long as there is danger, and in any case, the combatants of the first hour have alone the right to be the exterminators of the last. He who has not been a stubborn accuser in prosperity should hold his peace in the face of ruin.

I'm not hugging the Guantanamo location, but our right to hold people under the laws of war as enemy combatants, I think, is unarguable, and we need to stand up for that.

Presumption of innocence has also been given a new and useful interpretation. As the New York Times later reported, "Mr. Obama embraced a disputed method for counting civilian casualties that did little to box him in. It in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants, according to several administration officials, unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent.

Osama bin Laden's own words stated he has a war against the United States. He declared that American civilians should be considered as combatants.

Chinese combatants, men and women, inheritors of a millennial culture, are people of uncommon intelligence and an invincible spirit of struggle.

A duel is just two murders who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.

The fucking angels of memory were out. They had come out of their museums, out of their castles. They'd gone to war against whatever this incoming to-come was. The very facts of retrospection and fate that had various sides fighting were now out themselves, personified or apotheosed and smacking seven bells out of each other directly No longer solely reasons, justifications, teloi, casus belli for others to invoke or believe in: now combatants. The war had just got meta.

Print could be wielded by the purveyors of prejudice as well as by the combatants for civilization

Finally, it is worth mentioning, in the interest of thoroughness, that the defeat exasperated the conflict between generations. For four years the combatants of 1914 reproached those of 1940 for having lost the war, and those of 1940, in reply, accused their elders of having lost the peace.

I don't really pick my opponents.

I don't like to choose my opponents.

Mean-Value Theorem for Integrals, 123 but for Hal's synoptic purposes here it's enough to say that megatonnage is distributed among Combatants according to an integrally regressed ratio of (a)

Y en una sociedad que se niega a ver a los combatientes como iguales; donde se niega que haya guerra, donde unos mueren asesinados y otros mueren dados de baja, donde los soldados pobres son sacrificados como patriotas y los rebeldes pobres son sacrificados como monstruos, no hay manera de exigirles a los enemigos que se comporten como héroes homéricos.

You know, I need hardly remind you, it is not numbers or strength that gives victory in war; but, heaven helping them, to one or other of two combatants it is given to dash with stouter hearts to meet the foe, and such onset, in nine cases out of ten, those others refuse to meet.

ne fait aucun doute que, individuellement, les Algériens sont de bons combattants, mais ils sont incapables de former une armée tant que celle-ci n'est pas dirigée par des cadres européens. Nous