Army Quotes - Page 28

• Our path to Palestine will not be covered with a red carpet or with yellow sand. Our path to Palestine will be covered with blood... In order that we may liberate Palestine, the Arab nation must unite, the Arab armies must unite, and a unified plan of action must be established.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  Order, Yellow, Blood

  Gamal Abdel Nasser's re-election speech (1965) as quoted in Efraim Karsh "Islamic Imperialism: A History" (p. 162), 2006.

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• There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.

  George W. Bush

  Punishment, Promise, Purpose

  "Governor George W. Bush - 'A Distinctly American Internationalism'". Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, California, www.globalsecurity.org. November 19, 1999.

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• I don't know why you're talking about Sweden. They're the neutral one. They don't have an army.

  George W. Bush

  Talking, Sweden, Knows

  "Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush" by Ron Suskind, www.nytimes.com. October 17, 2004.

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• (Carmine Crocco) A farm-labourer and cowherd, had joined the Bourbon army, killed a comrade in a brawl, deserted and lived as an outlaw for ten years. He joined the liberal insurgents in 1860 in the hope of an amnesty for his past offences, and subsequently became the most formidable guerilla chief and leader of men on the Bourbon side.

  Eric Hobsbawm

  Past, Men, Years

  Eric J. Hobsbawm (1985). “Bandits”

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• I was a kind of a one-man army. I could solder circuits together, I could turn out things on the lathe, I could work with rockets and balloons. I'm a kind of a hybrid between an engineer and a physicist and astronomer.

  James Van Allen

  Men, Together, Balloons

  "Grounded in Space Science". "The Christian Science Monitor" Newspaper, (p. 14), December 22, 1989.

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• In organized groups such as the army or the Church there is either no mention of love whatsoever between the members, or it is expressed only in a sublimated and indirect way, through the mediation of some religious imagine in the love of whom the members unite and whose all-embracing love they are supposed to imitate in their attitude towards each other. It is one of the basic tenets of fascist leadership to keep primary libidinal energy on an unconscious level so as to divert its manifestations in a way suitable to political ends.

  Theodor Adorno

  Religious, Attitude, Political

  "Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda". "The Essential Frankfurt School Reader", 1982.

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• The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American Policy makers.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Surprise, Speed, Social

  "Jeane Kirkpatrick". www.economist.com. December 19, 2006.

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• Snow pursued by the wind is not wholly unlike a retreating army. In the open field it ranges itself in ranks and battalions; where it can get a foothold it makes a stand; where it can take cover it does so. You may see whole platoons of snow cowering behind a bit of broken wall.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wall, Wind, Snow

  Ambrose Bierce (2015). “Can Such Things Be?”, p.104, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• An army's bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Men, Hands, Enemy

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “Civil War Stories”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• For every man who has learned to fight in arms will desire to learn the proper arrangement of an army, which is the sequel of the lesson.

  Plato

  Fighting, Men, Desire

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.80

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• One always abandons something in retreat. Look at Napoleon at the Beresina! He abandoned his whole army.

  George Orwell

  Looks, Retreat, Abandoned

  George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.28, Lulu.com

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• The point is, that the function of the novel seems to be changing; it has become an outpost of journalism; we read novels for information about areas of life we don't know - Nigeria, South Africa, the American army, a coal-mining village, coteries in Chelsea, etc. We read to find out what is going on. One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel - the quality of philosophy.

  Doris Lessing

  Philosophy, Should Have, Quality

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Hollywood is a very male business, and it has in vast portions of it - the whole action movie part of it might as well be the United States Army in 1943 in that the ethics of it are, you know, boot camp and action movies and guns and explosions and all the rest of it, and that - so that means that about 50% of the business is not only pretty much closed off to women, but women don't even wanna be in it!

  Nora Ephron

  Mean, Gun, Hollywood

  "Dreams on Spec". Documentary, 2007.

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• Antagoras the poet was boiling a conger, and Antigonus, coming behind him as he was stirring his skillet, said, "Do you think, Antagoras, that Homer boiled congers when he wrote the deeds of Agamemnon?" Antagoras replied, "Do you think, O king, that Agamemnon, when he did such exploits, was a peeping in his army to see who boiled congers?

  Plutarch

  Kings, Thinking, Agamemnon

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.204

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• A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Borders, Conquer, Eloquence

  Speech to North German Reichstag, September 24, 1867.

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• How can Blair fight a war on terror? Terror is not an ideology or an army; terror is a technique.

  David Hockney

  War, Fighting, Technique

  "Interview: Jasper Gerard meets David Hockney". www.thetimes.co.uk. October 02, 2005.

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• Deep in the winter plain, two armies Dig their machinery, to destroy each other. Men freeze and hunger. No one is given leave On either side, except the dead, and wounded.

  Stephen Spender

  Winter, Men, Two

  Stephen Spender (2015). “Selected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.51, Faber & Faber

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• Without an army for the people, there is nothing for the people.

  Mao Zedong

  People

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• If we did ten things, nine were bad and got disclosed by the newspapers, we will be over. Then I will go, to the countryside, lead the peasant and revolt. If the Liberation Army do not follow me, I will get the Red Army.

  Mao Zedong

  Red, Nine, Follow Me

  Speech at the Lushan Conference, July 23, 1959.

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• ISIS is a formidable foe, but the counter forces to it have only just begun and if these forces, the Iraqi army, the Kurdish Peshmerga, American air power, the Syrian Free Army, work in a coordinated fashion, it will start losing ground. Also, please keep in mind that ISIS does not actually hold as much ground as the many maps flashed on television keep showing. Large parts of those territories that ISIS supposedly controls are vacant desert.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Fashion, Air, Isis

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• It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.

  Aristophanes

  Leadership, Skills, Valor

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• I think it's time for the Army to understand that power should be enshrined in the people if we are to be a genuine democracy and not in any particular institution or organisation.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Thinking, People, Democracy

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• The (Catholic) church, as far as I know, has not endorsed any war as just since it supported General Franco's invasion of Spain to destroy the Spanish republic with a Muslim mercenary army in the thirties, on the side of Hitler.

  Christopher Hitchens

  War, Catholic, Church

  "Tim Russert" (Talk-Show on CNBC), September 25, 2004.

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• I recall this sergeant's informing me and my "room-mates" of this rather deplorable fact the army didn't have any official, excuse me, didn't have no official song and suggested that we work on this in our copious free time.

  Tom Lehrer

  Song, Rooms, Facts

  "Introduction to 'It Makes a Fellow Proud to be a Soldier'". CD Audio "An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer", March 20-21, 1959.

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• Stronger than all the armies is an idea thats time has come. ... The time has come for equality of opportunity in sharing in government, in education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied. It is here!

  Everett Dirksen

  Opportunity, Government, Ideas

  Speech to Senate on the Civil Rights Bill, delivered 10 June 1964, Washington, D.C.

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