Quotes About Tactics

He who exercises no forethought but makes light of his opponents is sure to be captured by them.

Always remember, however sure you are that you could easily win, that there would not be a war if the other man did not think he also had a chance.

To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.

To know in war how to recognize an opportunity and seize it is better than anything else.

It is the business of cavalry to follow up the victory, and to prevent the beaten army from rallying.

Hence it happened that all the armed prophets conquered, all the unarmed perished. [It., Di qui nacque che tutti li profeti armati vincero, e li disarmati rovinarono.]

In war, practice dissimulation and you will succeed.

War is a bloody, killing business. You've got to spill their blood, or they will spill yours. Rip them up the belly. Shoot them in the guts.

Fierce language and pretentious advances are signs that the enemy is about to retreat.

In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport; it was what it had been invented to simulate: war.

The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.

The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.

Yes, and I'm sure the arena will be full of bags of flour for me to chuck at people.

Wars are won by heads not hearts.

Our romance became a key strategy for our survival in the arena. Only it wasn't just a strategy for Peeta.

So this is how a war starts.... Not with two armies facing off, waiting for the signal to charge.... It begins much more quietly. In a room, on a field, in a remote tunnel when someone who has power decides the time has come.

Beetee's glad we find the plan hard to follow, because then our enemies will, too. Like your electricity trap in the arena? I ask. Exactly. And see how well that worked out? says Beetee. Well...not really, I think.

That he knows the audience will be wondering why he hasn't used the most persuasive argument in his arsenal. That sponsors must be manipulated.

Wars are won with heads, not hearts.

Another force to contend with. Another power player who has decided to use me as a piece in her games,

SPECIAL WEAPONRY

Each hour begins a new horror, a new Gamemaker weapon, and ends the previous.

Las guerras se ganan con la cabeza, no con el corazón.

Maybe we'll both be allowed to live — if I play it right — to watch the Games go on. . . .