Quotes About Mental warfare

The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself. If we can't find peace within ourselves, where is the hope for peace in the world?

War soaks into your bones, drills down into the marrow like a parasite. It blots your life like ink spilled on snow white paper, and it has its perils even long after you've given it up.

I have to get out of this room as soon as possible, or my own thoughts will wage war against me.

The greatest war we fight is the one within ourselves.

It's not 64 squares. It's a battlefield. There's no luck, there's no dice. It's just you and your opponent.

The way I fight, it's not me beatin' the man. I make the man whip himself.

the mind is ground zero in spiritual warfare.

How is it they live in such harmony, the billions of stars, when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds?

This idea struck me: the army is the body : I am the brain. Thinking is my fighting. (15 May 1940)

Your knowledge and mine won't go away. But you've got to look at it for what it is. You can't bury something awful inside yourself, then pretend it's not there while you fight another war that makes you break all your own rules.

And the Jedi?" Lyra asked. "Also doing what they can. But remember, Dooku is one of their own, and he's a crafty opponent. At times he seems to be able to read our minds, if not simply outguess us.

If you notice, in every fight, I always have something to get into their head.

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

He seems to be fighting again. But whether he is battling memories or something real, I can't tell.

The enemy is always in the mind.

A city that is of one man only is no city, says Haemon in Sophocles' 'Antigone.' Only where differences are valued and opposition tolerated can be transmuted into dialectic: so in its internal economy the city is a place-to twist Blake's dictum-that depresses corporeal and promotes mental war.

I like generals. I like Napoleon. I like strategy. The majority of them are praised for mass destruction, but it's exciting to see how it comes to the mind mentally.

The war we must must win is fought within.

Fencing isn't really fighting. It's more like chess with the risk of puncture wounds

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

war between paralyzed telepaths.

Battles aren't always—or even usually—won by killing everybody on the other side. They're won inside the other side's brains and wills. Given the right weapons, the right tactical situation, anyone can kill an enemy. Convincing her to yield, to do what you set out to compel her to do without killing her—that's harder.

your mind is a battlefield, and the battle for your life is always won or lost in your mind.

We used to get into other players' heads mentally and physically. In my day it was me versus you, my future versus your future.