Quotes About Battle

And rumor has it that the Central Ammunition Depot hanging off Box Tunnel still contains two thousand barrels of iron-tipped English longbow arrows, in case it becomes urgently necessary to re-fight the Battle of Crécy.

A battle was a battle. Warriors fought like warriors, but most of life was not a battle.

Sometimes the biggest enemy you have is down deep in your own soul.

As long as we think abstractly, as long as we find in patriotism and the exuberance of War our fulfillment, we will never understand those who do battle against us, or how we are perceived by them, or finally those who do battle for us and how we should respond to it all. We will never discover who we are. We will fail to confront the capacity we all have for violence.

Few of us can hold on to our real selves long enough to discover the momentous truths about ourselves and this whirling earth to which we cling. This is especially true of men [and women] in war. The great god Mars tries to blind us when we enter his realm, and when we leave he gives us a generous cup of the waters of Lethe to drink. -- J. Glenn Gray, The Warriors: Reflections of Men in Battle

As long as we think abstractly, as long as we find in patriotism and the exuberance of war our fulfillment, we will never understand those who do battle against us, or how we are perceived by them

This too is a jihad. Yet we Americans find ourselves in the dangerous position of going to war not against a state but against a phantom. The jihad we have embarked upon is targeting an elusive and protean enemy. The battle we have begun is never-ending. But it may be too late to wind back the heady rhetoric. We have embarked on a campaign as quixotic as the one mounted to destroy us.

Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness. But if what is human in human beings has not been destroyed even now, then evil will never conquer.13

Now the battle against communism has been reconfigured. The seat of Satan is no longer in the Kremlin. It has been assumed by individuals and institutions promoting a rival religion called "secular humanism.

In 'Drakengard', you have magic and non-magic missiles that couldn't shoot each other down.

Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie.

The centuries-old habit of privileging the male heir arose because monarchs were supposed to lead their country in battle, and only men were thought strong enough to do so.

If you battle monsters, you don't always become a monster. But you aren't entirely human anymore, either.

We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.

it was not battle, it was just the endless march, village to village, without purpose, nothing won or lost. They marched for the sake of the march.

version of the story. One particular incident in the battle troubled me a lot. Several historians describe how the African victors, having conquered the town, indulged in a cannibal feast in the burning

And let's just be honest, there is no such place called 'justice,' if by that we envision a finish line, or a point at which the battle is won and the need to continue the struggle over with. After all, even when you succeed in obtaining a measure of justice, you're always forced to mobilize to defend that which you've won. There is no looming vacation. But there is redemption in struggle.

You asked what I hoped to gain by meeting you on the bridge, Admiral?" Thrawn asked softly. Savit looked back at Thrawn. The blue face was still calm, but the glowing eyes seemed to have taken on a new intensity. "So tell me," he invited. "It's very simple," Thrawn said. "I wished for a better view of the coming battle.

The side effects of combat can be unpredictable.

But as the attackers began falling from the Defenders' concentrated fire Vader reached the firing line, the red blade of his lightsaber cutting through the enemy like a scythe through ripened grain as he walked through their midst.

Takes a pretty confident person to think he can beat modern turbolasers with blaster cannons, though. Thrawn shrugged. I could. Right, but you're on our side, Eli said drily.

Yes, they'd lost. But it was just a battle, not the war.

Quiet! Fool!! So what if he's hurt? This is a battle. Inequality is to be expected…a monster born of inequality and intolerance. 'I can't stand that guy.' 'I think I can beat him.' 'I'll never forgive him.' We make enemies for all kinds of reasons. And the moment we do…even breathing becomes part of the struggle.

Listen! A battle isn't just about winning!! What do you people think a captain's robe is?" "A nuisance." "Cheap." "Fashion?