Quotes About Warfare

These were stupid affairs—wastes of life and treasure. They were fought, ostensibly, to defend against vicious foreign enemies. All too often, they were actually fought because inadequate leaders did not know what else to do.

People can't concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the twenty-fifth of December.

People can't concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the twenty-fifth of December.

Tak wi?c mam przed oczami ci?gle ten obraz, jak w czasie rosyjskiego obl??enia, gdy wali?y dzia?a i kruszy?y si? mury twierdzy, gdy trz?s?a si? ostrzeliwana ziemia i ludzie padali jak muchy, Pan w izbie oficerskiej przy wie?y swojego wi?zienia ssa? kobiec? pier? i naprawia? w ten sposób dziurawy, n?dzny ?wiat.

Put your trust in God and keep your powder dry.

God made them as stubble to our swords.

The land of scholars, and the nurse of arms.

Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder. … And that is war in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.

Many women have distinguished themselves no less than men in the spiritual warfare, and some of them more … It was not only men but also women who followed Jesus, and he accepted help from women as much as from men. Basil of Caesarea Shorter Rules,

You can judge a culture by what it talks about and what it refuses to talk about, and talk of "spiritual warfare" would be a useful litmus test today.

If inciting people to do that [9/11] is terrorism, and if killing those who kill our sons is terrorism, then let history be witness that we are terrorists.

We had patience in our fighting with the Soviet Union with simple weapons for 10 years. We exhausted their economy, so they disappeared. We will not abandon our fight until the weapons run out.

We treat them in the same way. Those who kill our women and innocent, we kill their women and innocent, until they refrain.

Life without war is impossible in the natural or the supernatural realm. It is a fact that there is a continuing struggle in the physical, mental, moral, and spiritual areas of life.

Be polite write diplomatically even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

It was with bitter hearts and deadly thoughts that we, the remnant of the Six Hundred, rode back, leaving the flower of the Light Brigade dead or dying before those murderous Russian guns; — and it was all done, all over, in five-and-twenty minutes — less than a fast up-wind fox-hunt would have taken at home!

the amateurs, who had come out to see what was doing in the Crimea, as they went other years to Norwegian fishing or Baden roulette, were scattered about in yachting costume, and stirred to a little excitement as the Russian shells began to burst among us, and the bombs to fall with thuds loud enough to startle the strongest nerves.

No era Calleja, como lo creía él mismo, un gran militar […] su energía era menor que su crueldad feroz; su constancia igualaba a su lentitud […] es frente a Morelos en el arte de la guerra lo que un artesano lento y tosco frente al artista de concepciones rápidas».

Madame Candelaria contó muchos años después que Santa Anna, antes de iniciarse el cerco, entró en San Antonio; iba montado en una mula y fue haciendo pequeños planos de la disposición de la ciudad.

However, in asymmetrical warfare, whether or not "demands" are met (i.e., whether you "win" or "lose" in the conventional sense) is secondary to perception of the intangibles in the globalized world of tweets and instantaneous information and disinformation. Hamas

Only a Mahican would bring a comb to war." Connor rolled his eyes, then leaned in as if about to tell Amalie a great secret, lowering his voice to a whisper. "It helps them keep their feathers pretty." -Connor about Joesph

Voltaire also keenly endorsed Catherine of Russia's plan to 'preach tolerance with bayonets at the end of their rifles' in Poland. Exhorting Catherine to learn Greek as she prepared to attack the Ottoman Empire, he added that 'it is absolutely necessary to chase from Europe the Turkish language, as well as all those who speak it'.