Quotes About Combat

By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principle characteristic seems to be—what human nature mostly delights in—a fight.

Make it fast, you shower of stinking rabbit droppings, I've got a fresh blade that I'm just itching to test!

He was the point dog, sent in to check for hostiles. His orders were simple. Bite everything. If it screamed, it was hostile.

Mona was half ninja, half gunslinger, popping off charge after charge into the blue creatures.

And surely the ultimate point of weapons training was to kill humans.

Know thine enemy

One did not become one of the world's deadliest men by dropping one's guard.

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Everyone's life is a warfare, and that long and various.

There're a couple of books that discuss this," Heath said to his friend. "On Killing [by Dave Grossman] is a good one. He writes about cops, and he discusses troops from the Civil War all the way up to now.

La repugnancia a hacer la guerra no debe confundirse con la negativa a luchar

The feeling is the less to be combated, because it is utterly unreasonable and utterly regardless of facts or arguments.

Nos morituri te salutamus." The traditional greeting of the gladiators: We who are about to die salute you…

No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.

Êtes-vous prêts à considérer que la mort est votre seule ennemie ? Oui, la mort, la mort seule. Pas les puissances rivales, pas les autres peuples, pas les autres races. Pas nous. Uniquement la mort. Le seul ennemi qui mérite d'être combattu, pourchassé, vaincu.

Au fil des ans, des crises et des guerres, la terre libanaise est devenue un champ ouvert où se livraient, directement ou par personnes interposées, d'innombrables combats

Did you not know these things would maybe, I don't know, benefit you when we're fighting a war where camels are a form of transportation?

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passions, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

I don't believe rape is inevitable or natural. If I did, I would have no reason to be here. If I did, my political practice would be different than it is. Have you ever wondered why we [women] are not just in armed combat against you? It's not because there's a shortage of kitchen knives in this country. It is because we believe in your humanity, against all the evidence.

In the ghettos, as in the extermination camps to which they were the antechamber, the résistants embarked on a race against death. To struggle and resist was the only lucid choice, but this most often meant for the fighters no more than choosing the time and manner of their death. Beyond the immediate outcome of the struggle, which most often was inevitable, their combat was for history, for memory

People think of rugby players as being tough but it's another thing to stand in front of someone and get kicked, punched, taken down. In rugby you have two contact sessions a week and you play a game on the weekend.

I tried martial arts classes for three weeks, but I quit because you actually get hit. I just want to do the movie kind of martial arts.

My own life changed when my father returned from his second combat tour in Vietnam. When he came home after almost a year in Army hospitals, he weighed less than half of what he did when he left. I watched the agonizing recovery, and that experience was on my mind when I was asked to come to VA.

In a street fight there is no time-limit, no weight division, you don't choose your opponent.