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Quotes About Invasion

Kas tai yra meil?? Nieko n?ra pasaulyje, nei žmogaus, nei velnio, nei kito dalyko, kuris man atrodyt? toks pat ?tartinas, kaip meil?, nes ji ?silaužia ? siel? giliau nei kas kitas, ir n?ra nieko kito, kas taip pripildyt? ir supan?iot? šird?, kaip meil?. Tod?l per meil? siela nugarma ? giliausius pragarus, nebent jei turi ginkl?, kuriais gali jai atsispirti.
~ Umberto Eco
He knew that armies were being transported from the Mediterranean to the Far East and that the invasion was set for November. Patton had told him that they were reckoning upon a million casualties, more than the British, French, and Americans had sustained in all the European fighting. A terrible prospect indeed, and one that weighed upon the consciences of two idealists dreaming peace on earth and good will toward men.
~ Upton Sinclair
When the successful military action against Saddam Hussein ended in April 2003, more than 70 percent of the American people backed the invasion of Iraq, with politicians and pundits alike elbowing each other aside to take credit for their prescient support.
~ Victor Davis Hanson
One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.
~ Victor Hugo
One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas. a
~ Victor Hugo
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come
~ Victor Hugo
A beautiful woman is a casus belli; a pretty woman is flagrant misdemeanour. All the invasions of history have been determined by petticoats.
~ Victor Hugo
Nessuno è meglio adatto a spiare le azioni d'una persona, di coloro cui non riguardano.
~ Victor Hugo
Invading armies can be resisted, invading ideas cannot be.
~ Victor Hugo
After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks.
~ Kurt Student
And just so you know, the invaders are always the bad guys. Always.
~ Laini Taylor
As several historians have pointed out, it would have made little sense for Fidel to do something that would risk having his country invaded in retaliation, just to make Lyndon Johnson President.
~ Lamar Waldron
You may have the worst timing since Napoleon decided the dead of winter was the right moment to invade Russia.
~ Cassandra Clare
Now that I'm in your mind, want to see some naked mental pictures of Jace?
~ Cassandra Clare
These people who came west to "civilize" the heathen—what made them decide to do that? To me it's completely irrational to go into somebody else's country and try to tell them how to think, how to pray, how to live, how to raise their children. —Roberta Conner, director, Tamástslikt Cultural Institute
~ Cassandra Tate
Get off my turf; you're stomping on my sense of self. Stop crossing into my backyard.
~ Catherine Gildiner
But when it finally did happen, the alien invasion turned out to be much more like Mr. Looney of the Tunes than Mr. Ridley of the Scott. Point to Nani.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Il nostro compito è di combattere contro lo straniero che ha invaso l'Italia. E contro gli italiani che al soldo dello straniero ci ostacolano in quest'opera di difesa della Patria, noi combattiamo per difenderci".
~ Giampaolo Pansa
Since such assumptions are limited only by one's imagination and are encouraged daily by revelations of government and institutional invasion of privacy," they wrote, "the boundaries between paranoid delusions and justified cautions indeed become tenuous.
~ Glenn Greenwald
A prime justification for surveillance—that it's for the benefit of the population—relies on projecting a view of the world that divides citizens into categories of good people and bad people. In that view, the authorities use their surveillance powers only against bad people, those who are "doing something wrong," and only they have anything to fear from the invasion of their privacy.
~ Glenn Greenwald
The hacking practice is quite widespread in its own right: one NSA document indicates that the agency has succeeded in infecting at least fifty thousand individual computers with a type of malware called "Quantum Insertion." One map shows the places where such operations have been performed and the number of successful insertions:
~ Glenn Greenwald
Patriarchy in all its forms is still about controlling reproduction, and thus the bodies of women, which is why invading a female body is still less likely to be punished by law than invading private property.
~ Gloria Steinem
Bukhara. Before the year ended, the Mongols had
~ Jack Weatherford
These skills later gave the Mongols a great advantage because, unlike almost every other army, the Mongols easily rode and even fought on frozen rivers and lakes. The frozen rivers that Europeans relied upon as their protection from invasion, such as the Volga and the Danube, became highways for the Mongols, allowing them to ride their horses right up to city walls during the season that found the Europeans least prepared for fighting.
~ Jack Weatherford