Sun Tzu Quotes About Flight

Quotes about: Flight

• Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight. If they will face death, there is nothing they may not achieve.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Military, War

  Sun Tzu, General Press (2016). “The Art of War”, p.51, GENERAL PRESS

• Now an army is exposed to six several calamities, not arising from natural causes, 1 but from faults for which the general is responsible. These are: (1) Flight; (2) insubordination; (3) collapse; (4) ruin; (5) disorganisation; (6) rout.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Army

  Sun Tzu (2012). “Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text”, p.137, Tuttle Publishing

• Other conditions being equal, if one force is hurled against another ten times its size, the result will be the flight of the former.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Size

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.23, Lulu.com

• Use humility to make the enemy haughty. Tire them by flight. Cause division among them. When they are unprepared, attack and make your move when they do not expect it.

  Sun Tzu

  Military, War, Moving

• Birds rising in flight is a sign that the enemy is lying in ambush; when the wild animals are startled and flee he is trying to take you unaware.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Lying

• The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming.

  Sun Tzu

  Bird, Rising, Flight

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.21, Lulu.com

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