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Quotes About Guerrilla

World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.
~ Marshall McLuhan
Needless to say, they refused to submit to the Empire, conducting such a persistent guerrilla war that the Romans gave up hope of conquering Scotland, and the Wee Free Men remained both wee and free.
~ Terry Pratchett
There is in guerrilla warfare no such thing as a decisive battle; there is nothing comparable to the fixed, passive defense that characterizes orthodox war.
~ Mao Zedong
The whole of that part of Southern Africa which is controlled by racial minorities is experiencing either consistent and regular guerilla activity or is faced with advanced preparation for its commencement.
~ Joe Slovo
What bin Laden had hoped to achieve in Afghanistan in the post-9/11 period, which was to drag the United States into a protracted guerrilla war like the one he had fought against the Soviets, never happened. Instead, that protracted guerrilla war is now playing out in Iraq, in the heart of the Middle East.
~ Peter Bergen
From the experience of state militias during the American Revolution, to the Spanish-American War; from the legendary Merrill's Marauders, the highly skilled and toughened American jungle fighters who served in the Burma-India theater in World War II, to the members of the OSS (the Office of Strategic Services), who on specific assignments fought alongside native guerrilla forces, the Americans had a long and honorable guerrilla-fighting tradition.
~ Tom Mangold
Expropriations are armed operations and a guerrilla tactic carried out to finance, support and advance the movement towards revolution.
~ Carlos Marighella
Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets.
~ Jeff Goodell
I ... have another cup of coffee with my mother. We get along very well, veterans of a guerrilla war we never understood.
~ Joan Didion
The guerilla must live amongst the people as the fish lives in the water.
~ Mao Tse-Tung
Corruption is taken for granted, even grudgingly admired: the guerrilla cunning of the colonised is still ingrained into us, and tax evasion and shady deals are seen as forms of the same spirit of rebellion that hid horses and seed potatoes from the British.
~ Tana French
Che Guevara's manual: Know the terrain; hit the enemy at its weakest; never use brute strength.
~ Ted Kerasote
and showed him to be a villa-dwelling dependent and not an ascetic cave-dwelling guerrilla.
~ Christopher Hitchens
The poet in Le Cagot had confected for himself the role of the miles gloriosus, the Falstaffian clown—but with a unique difference: his braggadocio was founded on a record of reckless, laughing courage in numberless guerrilla actions against the fascist who oppressed his people in Spain.
~ Trevanian
There are guerrilla armies that make little boys kill their own families. Such acts rip out the soul and make space for beasts to grow inside. Armies need beasts, don't they? Pet beasts, to do their terrible work!
~ Laini Taylor
The Art of Guerrilla Warfare and The Partisan Leaders' Handbook.
~ Giles Milton
Mainstream media's representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black men's lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.
~ Aberjhani
But now that the guerrilla fighting is over, the Spaniards are again men without a country or families or homes or work, though everyone appreciates very much what they did.
~ Martha Gellhorn
It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies, character-driven stuff. I would love to do more theater on a larger scale. I'm just excited for the next thing that comes along that I'm salivating over. I think a little more guerrilla would be really exciting to me.
~ Tatiana Maslany
As explained by Carlos Marighella, the Brazilian guerrilla leader whose writings influenced political terrorists in the 1960s and 1970s, if a government can be provoked into a purely military response to terrorism, its overreaction will alienate the masses, causing them to "revolt against the army and the police and blame them for this state of things.
~ Chalmers Johnson
Al-Qa'ida does not follow a traditional command structure, wear uniforms, carry its arms openly, or mass its troops at the borders of the nations it attacks. Nonetheless, it possesses the demonstrated capability to strike with little notice and cause significant civilian or military casualties.
~ John O. Brennan
We executed many people by firing squad without knowing if they were fully guilty. At times, the Revolution cannot stop to conduct much investigation; it has the obligation to triumph.
~ Che Guevara
Thomson Reuters, for instance, advises reporters and editors: "It is acceptable to say that a guerrilla organization claimed responsibility for carrying out an attack. Do not say it claimed credit.
~ Harold Evans
We all been playing those mind games forever Some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil. Doing the mind guerrilla, Some call it magic -- the search for the grail.
~ lennon john iv