Quotes About Combat

The most crucial right established under Magna Carta was the right to a trial by jury. For centuries, guilt or innocence had been determined, across Europe, either by a trial by ordeal—a trial by water, for instance, or a trial by fire—or by trial by combat. Trials by ordeal and combat required neither testimony nor questioning. The outcome was, itself, the evidence, the only admissible form of judicial proof, accepted because it placed judgment in the hands of God.

Then secretary of veteran affairs Eric Shinseki reported in November 2009 that "more veterans have committed suicide since 2001 than we have lost on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan." In

The only way to combat falling into the opinion trap is to follow Rand's lead: think before you answer—if you even answer.

The U.S. Armed Forces are the best trained, best equipped fighting forces in the world.

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose.

The only difference between war and murder is the number of dead.

You may need two hands to fight someone, but only one to stab them in the back. (Yarvi)

If you have a plan," hissed Sumael from the corner of her mouth, "now would be the time." "I have a plan," said Nothing. "Does it involve swords?" A pause. "All my plans do." "Do you have a sword?" Another. "No." "How will you succeed without one?" Muttered Sumael. A third. "Death waits for us all.

War is not natural. We have to be trained for it, soldiers and citizens alike.

I look to Agent Orange—the spreading of twenty million gallons of deadly herbicides across Vietnam by U.S. forces from 1961 to 1971—long studied as part of the history of warfare and combat zones and as environmental history but rarely joined with the enduring violence of compounded forms of imperial governance. It is far from the only one.

Qui pouvait comprendre cela ? Personne. C'était un combat intime. Le plus invisible de tous. Le plus lancinant aussi.

He partitioned his mind: 80 percent for combat, 20 percent for searches on faggots.

You read a hundred military manuals you won't find the word kill they trick you into killing.

The average life expectancy of a fighter pilot was no more than fifty to sixty flight hours.

The evolution of force can only be made by struggle, by combat, by effort, by exercise, and inasmuch as I´shvara is building men and not babies, He must draw out men's forces by pulling against their strength, making them struggle in order to attain, and so vivifying into outer manifestation the life that otherwise would remain enfolded in itself.

Dan Kahan's work on motivated reasoning also indicates that smart people are not better equipped to combat bias—and may even be more susceptible.

[Salutation by gladiators:] Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you.

If I had a choice, I'd rather not fight someone from Brazil, but as a professional, I couldn't say no.

This is a business. I'm a professional athlete. This isn't, 'poke somebody and start a street fight.'

No woman has ever professionally, to my knowledge, fought a man in a professionally commissioned, sanctioned fight. And it's not going to happen. I mean, I'd be amazed if that ever happened. It's not gonna happen.

It's normal to be under pressure. I'm fighting professionally for 15 years, and it's always been like that.

I've been fighting professionally since I was 18, and I've been doing three or four fights a year, just doing camp after camp.

You have to design and program differently. Combat action in an MMO is so different to combat in a first-person shooter.