Army Quotes - Page 40

• The first task of the Federal Reserve system would be to finance the World War. The European nations were already bankrupt, because they had maintained large standing armies for almost fifty years, a situation created by their own central banks, and therefore they could not finance a war. A central bank always imposes a tremendous burden on the nation for "rearmament" and "defense", in order to create inextinguishable debt, simultaneously creating a military dictatorship and enslaving the people to pay the "interest" on the debt which the bankers have artificially created.

  Eustace Mullins

  Military, War, Order

  40 Copy quote

• What is called common sense is excellent in its department, and as invaluable as the virtue of conformity in the army and navy,--for there must be subordination,--but uncommon sense, that sense which is common only to the wisest, is as much more excellent as it is more rare.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Common Sense, Navy, Conformity

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.13, Yale University Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What is your dream? To be the most famous man in the world? What a stupid dream you have! To conquer the whole world with an army? What a primitive dream you have! To earn millions of dollars? What a greedy dream you have! Question your dreams!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dream, Stupid, Men

  4 Copy quote

• Give Me a Turkish Army. I will Conquer world.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Giving, World, Conquer

  39 Copy quote

• Our Red Army now needs IL-2 aircraft like the air it breathes, like the bread it eats.

  Joseph Stalin

  Air, Needs, Red

  "Red Phoenix: The Rise of Soviet Air Power, 1941 - 1945" by Von Hardesty, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, (p. 170), 1982.

  35 Copy quote

  Show source

• The assumption is that people so ignorant and thoughtless and silly and greedy may simply call upon the Army Corps of Engineers in order to receive a clean and abundant supply of water from reservoirs in the mountains. A much likelier outcome is that they will be drinking an ever stronger mixture of sewage and mine acid and mud and cropspray and various other defecations of the industrial paradise.

  Wendell Berry

  Drinking, Silly, Order

  4 Copy quote

• But in its de facto alliance with Caesar, Christianity connives directly in the murder of Creation. For in these days, Caesar is no longer a mere destroyer of armies, cities, and nations. He is a contradicter of the fundamental miracle of life.

  Wendell Berry

  Cities, Miracle, Environmental

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.319, Counterpoint

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I became a Communist because I fell in love with a man who was a Red and entered the Army to take care of the Fascists, and I knew it would please him if I became one

  Karen Morley

  Men, Care, Red

  6 Copy quote

• The crimes committed against the people of West Papua are some of the most shameful of the past years. The Western powers have much to answer for, and at the very least should use their ample means to bring about the withdrawal of the occupying Indonesian army and termination of the shameful exploitation of resources and destruction of the environment and the lives and societies of the people of West Papua, who have suffered far too much.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Past, Years

  9 Copy quote

• Statues and children frame the Eiffel Tower and its watery image. When the Germans occupied Paris, they housed a beacon light in the Tower to guide their night planes. The victorious United States Army requisitioned this landmark as a radar transmission point.

  Maynard Owen Williams

  Children, Night, Light

  4 Copy quote

• The Western concept of democracy is based on the idea that the loser of an election has the possibility next time round of being the winner. But in the case of an ethnically or religiously divided country, in which minorities don't live peacefully together, this necessary balance can't be properly guaranteed by democracy. When each ethnic group arms itself, it is not surprising that the army of a new state is viewed by part of the population as an ideological militia.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Ideas, Together

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Putin likes to quote a sentence from Czar Alexander III, who said that Russian has only two allies - the army and the navy. As a citizen, this makes me sit up and take notice. This is a concept of self-imposed isolation, a defense strategy that sees Russia surrounded by enemies.

  Vladimir Sorokin

  Two, Russia, Self

  "Russia Is Slipping Back into an Authoritarian Empire". Interview with Martin Doerry and Matthias Schepp, www.spiegel.de. February 2, 2007.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• With respect to where we are now, we have a voluntary army. And if we ever go back to conscription I hope that at time it will be the kind of conscription that was put in at the end of the Vietnam War. And that is, everybody is equally liable to be called to serve the nation in time of conflict.

  Colin Powell

  War, Vietnam, Kind

  Source: www.foxnews.com

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• I didn't like Army life. I didn't like taking orders. I didn't like discipline. I didn't like being yelled at. You'd get 10 years for punching a sergeant so I couldn't punch a sergeant.

  Jack Kirby

  Order, Years, Discipline

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the Army when we had judo classes, out of the class of 27 just me and another guy graduated. I grew to enjoy it because I knew I could do it well. I tried to do everything well.

  Jack Kirby

  Class, Guy, Grew

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'd still like to be the President, of course, and I think the best way to do that would be to raise an army and seize the Capital. This strikes me as true democracy.

  Gore Vidal

  Thinking, Democracy, President

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Admiralty said it was a plane and not a boat, the Royal Air Force said it was a boat and not a plane, the Army were plain not interested.

  Christopher Cockerell

  Air, Royal, Aviation

  20 Copy quote

• I was educated in a private school in England amongst people who had been trained for sort of banking or the Army or business. As I came towards the end of my education, I thought I must find something or I'll never meet any of these people again.

  Jeremy Irons

  School, People, Banking

  "Actor Jeremy Irons". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. September 7, 2012.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• A leader can transform an army of frightened people into fearless people.

  Myles Munroe

  People, Leader, Fearless

  19 Copy quote

• When someone writes something dazzlingly brilliant, people want to imitate it. The result is a lot of less-than-brilliant knock-offs. Elves, Dwarves, Goblin army, cursed ring, evil sorcerer. Tolkien did it. It rocked. Let's move on. Let's do something new.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Moving, Writing, Dwarves

  5 Copy quote

• To make a record requires a strategy; it's not just throwing somebody in the studio and seeing how it goes. Some artists are self-contained, but they still need advice about producers and collaborations and single choice. They need an army and a perspective and creative friction, because nobody has all the ideas.

  Tom Corson

  Artist, Self, Ideas

  "RCA Chiefs Peter Edge and Tom Corson on Signing Zayn Malik and Enrique Iglesias -- and Being Blissfully Unaware of Miley Cyrus' VMA Plans". Interview with Jem Aswad, www.billboard.com. August 28, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Division, Four, Empires

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Employers ganging up against workers is like raising an army of elephants against ants.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Elephants, Employers, Ganging Up

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works”

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and rests solely on the willing obedience of the rank and file.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Moral, Obedience, Authority

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• A country that is governed by its national army can never be morally free and, therefore, its so-called weakest member can never rise to his full moral height.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Height, Morality

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.82, Penguin Books India

  7 Copy quote

  Show source