Quotes About Combat

It's kind of hard for boxing, which is a violent sport, to get the respect that it deserves.

Just being in the military, you're so violent. We got into fights about just random things all the time. I don't think as aggressively as I did when I was in the Marine Corps.

Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the number of violent extremist groups has grown across multiple continents. From Syria to Somalia to Pakistan, the United States is combating many of these groups - usually with bombs and missiles. Large numbers of innocent people are invariably caught in the middle.

The Special Forces is an aggressive and violent organisation. I wouldn't want to see a woman going through that and getting shot at.

I'm a violent, physical person.

A lot of people see M.M.A. as this violent cage fighting, and they don't see it as being two athletes who have put so much time and energy and focus into it.

I am not opposed to scientists looking at all ways to combat and destroy the Zika virus.

I enjoy just the raw human visceral reaction of jumping into the arena and just swinging the hammer and seeing what is left over afterwards. Twitter is just modern-day gladiatorial combat.

Delta Force Operator Captain Brian "Hutch" Hutchinson hated group therapy almost as much as he hated the mind-warping meds.

Don't give the Enemy a seat. Don't entertain his ideas. These thoughts are not from a good and trustworthy Shepherd. Move on.

The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it.

I have no talent for choosing my battles. Life seems, strangely, like a battle to me.

The longbow would still have been used in the Napoleonic Wars if the raw mathematics of killing effectiveness was all that mattered, since both the longbow's firing rate and its accuracy were much greater than that of a smoothbore musket. But a frightened man, thinking with his midbrain and going "ploink, ploink, ploink" with a bow, doesn't stand a chance against an equally frightened man going "BANG! BANG!" with a musket.

Only in the spirit of attack, born in a brave heart, will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be.

True knowledge is not to be had solely through a combat against error, bad faith and untruth, but more generally, through a combat against the illusions inherent in the sensible world.

Jsem proti válce, ne proti voják?m.

Time flies when you're firing a sub machine gun. 

One of the finest snipers that ever graced the mud of the Western Front.

You find hate more among journalists and politicians at home than among fighting men.

It's idiocy, but all war is idiotic, and the most whole-hearted idiot is apt to win.

What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest.

I don't really understand the point about carping about every casualty, every bombing, every death. War is hell. That's why people say war is hell.

But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.

Artillery adds dignity, to what would otherwise be an ugly brawl.