Army Quotes - Page 32

• When you do battle, even if you are winning, if you continue for a long time it will dull your forces and blunt you edge...If you keep your armies out in the field for a long time, your supplies will be insufficient. Transportation of provisions itself consumes 20 times the amount transported.

  Sun Tzu

  Winning, Long, Battle

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• There are five kinds of incendiary attack: The first is called setting fire to personnel; the second, to stores; the third, to transport vehicles and equipment; the fourth, to munitions; the fifth, to supply installations...In all cases an army must understand the changes induced by the five kinds of incendiary attack, and make use of logistical calculations to address them.

  Sun Tzu

  Fire, Use, Addresses

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• The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee.

  Regis Philbin

  War, Coffee, Paris

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• I would hate to be thrust into the middle of a big film and not deliver. There's young actors and they're put into these central roles and they're commanding armies - but they can't quite pull it off. I'd much rather do it in small steps and build it from there.

  Paddy Considine

  Hate, Small Steps, Roles

  "And the winner is ..." by Craig McClean, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2005.

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• What's always got me is the fact that when people talked on the telly about Iraq, before Afghanistan kicked off, you'd get only these public-school-type army officers talking about what was going on out there. I kept thinking, 'Why don't we get the true voice of the squaddie? Why don't we hear from the lads on the battlefield?'

  Ross Kemp

  School, Thinking, Talking

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• Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military profession. When, on my return from Italy, I assumed the dress of the Institute, and associated with men of science, I knew what I was doing: I was sure of not being misunderstood by the lowest drummer boy in the army.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Military, Boys, Men

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• It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.

  James Russell Lowell

  Greek, March, Brevity

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books: First [-second] series”, p.239

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• Through all history, from the beginning, a noble army of martyrs have fought fiercely and fallen bravely for that unseen mistress, their country. So, through all history, to the end, as long as men believe in God that army must still march and fall, recruited only from the flower of mankind, cheered only by their own hope of humanity, strong only in the confidence of their cause.

  George William Curtis

  Country, Strong, Believe

  George William Curtis (1894). “Orations and Addresses of George William Curtis: On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891”

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• The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists.

  Helen Keller

  Want, Profit, Mass

  Helen Keller (1967). “Helen Keller, her Socialist years: writings and speeches”

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• To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love.

  Robert E. Lee

  Order, Soldier, Gettysburg

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• You cannot build up a standing army and then throw it back into a box like tin soldiers. Armies equipped to the teeth with weapons, with highly developed instruments of murder and backed by their military interests, have their own dynamic functions.

  Emma Goldman

  Military, Soldier, Teeth

  Emma Goldman (1917*). “Preparedness, the road to universal slaughter”

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• Poor America, of what avail is all her wealth, if the individuals comprising the nation are wretchedly poor? If they live in squalor, in filth, in crime, with hope and joy gone, a homeless, soulless army of human prey.

  Emma Goldman

  America, Joy, United States

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• War, even in the best state of an army, with all the alleviations of courtesy and honor, with all the correctives of morality and religion, is nevertheless so great an evil, that to engage in it without a clear necessity is a crime of the blackest dye. When the necessity is clear, it then becomes a crime to shrink from it.

  Robert Southey

  War, Evil, Honor

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• The soul may be compared to a field of battle, where the armies are ready every moment to encounter. Not a single vice but has a more powerful opponent, and not one virtue but may be overborne by a combination of vices.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Powerful, Soul, Battle

  Oliver Goldsmith (1825). “Miscellaneous works”, p.189

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• Love is the great intangible. ... Frantic and serene, vigilant and calm, wrung-out and fortified, explosive and sedate -- love commands a vast army of moods. Hoping for victory, limping from the latest skirmish, lovers enter the arena once again. ... Love is the white light of emotion. ... Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one can agree on what it is.

  Diane Ackerman

  Love Is, White, Light

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• The army of Grant and the army of Lee are together. They are one now in faith, in hope, in fraternity, in purpose, and in an invincible patriotism. And, therefore, the country is in no danger. In justice strong, in peace secure, and in devotion to the flag all one.

  William McKinley

  Country, Strong, Justice

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• Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Ignorance, Males, Militarism

  Rita Mae Brown (1982). “Southern discomfort”, Harpercollins

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• Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any. Nothing is visible but the merest outline of dusky shapes. Standing within all is clear and defined; every ray of light reveals an army of unspeakable splendors.

  John Ruskin

  Christian, Light, Rays

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 134, 1895.

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• When those of our army whose voices are likely to coo tell us that the day of sex antagonism is over and that henceforth we only have to advance hand in hand with the male, I do not believe it.

  Rebecca West

  Sex, Believe, Hands

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• My heart was beating like an army on the march.

  Iris Murdoch

  Heart, March, My Heart

  Iris Murdoch (1977). “Under the Net”, p.181, Penguin

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• Private property is held sacred in all good governments, and particularly in our own. Yet shall the fear of invading it prevent a general from marching his army over a cornfield or burning a house which protects the enemy? A thousand other instances might be cited to show that laws must sometimes be silent when necessity speaks.

  Andrew Jackson

  Government, Law, House

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• What good is music? None ... and that is the point. To the world and its states and armies and factories and Leaders, music says, 'You are irrelevant'; and, arrogant and gentle as a god, to the suffering man it says only, 'Listen.' For being saved is not the point. Music saves nothing. Merciful, uncaring, it denies and breaks down all the shelters, the houses men build for themselves, that they may see the sky.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Men, Sky, Leader

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “Orsinian Tales”, p.112, Library of America

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• Words can do wonderful things. They pound, purr. They can urge, they can wheedle, whip, whine. They can sing, sass, singe. They can churn, check, channelize. They can be a "Hup two three four." They can forge a fiery army of a hundred languid men.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Men, Two, Four

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• My experience with being on a record label over the years has been when both of your agendas are in sync, and they're the same goal, it's great to have another army of people and resources and money. But most of the time, they're not the same. Their agenda is just simply to sell plastic discs at any cost, and yours is to preserve - at least in my case - your integrity, and hopefully sell some plastic discs, too.

  Trent Reznor

  Integrity, Years, People

  "Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails". Interview with Kyle Ryan, music.avclub.com. September 16, 2009.

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• I'm not implying that fantasy is for kids. I'm saying that more and more people are finally realizing that there's more to fantasy stories than elves and wizards and goblin armies.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Kids, People, Fantasy Stories

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