Battlefields Quotes - Page 13

• [on L. Ron Hubbard] I'm not in favor of his religion by any means. But he wrote a book called 'Battlefield Earth' that was a very fun science-fiction book.

  Mitt Romney

  Fun, Book, Mean

  "Romney Favors Hubbard Novel" by Jim Rutenberg, thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com. April 30, 2007.

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• Krishna says, fight. He says, go out in the battlefield and kill those people whom it's your job to kill.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Jobs, Yoga

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• It's a civil war, and Arjuna knows a lot of people who are on the opposite side of the battlefield - they've been his friends.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, War, Yoga

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• In the Bhagavad-Gita, a dialogue ensues in the middle of a battlefield, symbolizing the battlefield of life which we are fighting through our illusions.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Fighting

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• In the soldier we see the love of country. When you are willing to go onto a battlefield and give your life to defend an ideal ... knowing that you may not live through day.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Country, Yoga

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• As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln: I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dedication, Ideas, Two

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• Sabi is the color of haikai. It is different from tranquility. For example, if an old man dresses up in armor and helmet and goes to the battlefield, or in colorful brocade kimono, attending (his lord) at a banquet, [sabi] is like this old figure.

  Matsuo Basho

  Men, Color, Example

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• We've proven to be quite flexible and adept in the way that we've changed what was the original pattern of air activities into something that's now very focused on the battlefield.

  Wesley Clark

  Air, Patterns, Way

  "NATO: Aerial photo may show mass graves in Kosovo". www.cnn.com. April 11, 1999.

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• There are courageous and honest men enough in both sections to fight. There is no question of courage involved. The people of both sections of this Union have illustrated their courage on too many battlefields to be questioned. They have shown their fighting qualities shoulder to shoulder whenever their country has called upon them; but that they may never come in contact with each other in fratricidal war, should be the ardent wish of every true man and honest patriot.

  Robert Toombs

  Country, War, Fighting

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• Men: Stand in solidarity with women. Women, if you were born female, you were born on a battlefield. You will be punished for even saying that out loud, but the grim truth is you're going to be punished no matter what for the 'sin' of being female. Battering is the most commonly committed violent crime in the United States. That's a man beating a woman. Globally, half of all women will experience life-threatening violence from a man. Half. That's more hatred than I can comprehend. Right now, that battlefield is such a slaughter that we can't even collect our wounded.

  Lierre Keith

  Men, Hatred, United States

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• The women has her own battlefield with every child she brings into the world she fights a battle for the nation

  Adolf Hitler

  Children, Fighting, Battle

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• The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern wars in the utter ruthlessness with which it was fought... Europe and large parts of Asia and Africa became one vast battlefield on which after years of struggle not armies but nations broke and ran. When all was over, Torture and Cannibalism were the only two expedients that the civilized, scientific, Christian States had been able to deny themselves: and they were of doubtful utility.

  Winston Churchill

  Christian, War, Struggle

  "The World Crisis, Volume I: 1911-1914". Book by Winston Churchill, 1923.

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• We must also recognize the new realities of modern warfare and the modern landscape of a battlefield.

  Susan Davis

  Reality, Warfare, Landscape

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• I have never believed you go to war in Iraq, you go to war in Afghanistan, and believe that you can deal with those battlefields, those countries, in microcosms, or narrow channels.

  Chuck Hagel

  Country, War, Believe

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• Air forces offered the possibility of striking a the enemy's economic and moral centres without having first to achieve 'the destruction of the enemy's main forces on the battlefield'. Air-power might attain a direct end by indirect means - hopping over opposition instead of overthrowing it.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Mean, Air

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• Krishna says, fight. He says, go out on the battlefield and kill those people whom it's your job to kill; and whether they were your friends or not, you have to look at the big picture. In the big picture, you can't go kill anybody, you can't be killed.

  Frederick Lenz

  Jobs, Fighting, People

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• The touch of reality is salvation for the man who smothers amid forms and shadows. A blind man would rejoice in sight though his eyes opened on the carnage of a battlefield.

  Oscar W. Firkins

  Eye, Reality, Men

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• Literary revolution and revolutionary literature did not create a beautiful new world but instead divested literature of its basic nature, promoted violence, and, by resorting to linguistic violence, made a battlefield of this domain of spiritual freedom.

  Gao Xingjian

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Literature

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• From the time of the Revolutionary War, when citizens stood forward to defend their liberties against the depredations of tyranny. All the way through Civil War, through the great World Wars, this nation has been defended by the tradition of common ordinary folks who come from behind the plow, come from the store-clerking, come from the classrooms, and so forth to get on the battlefields - ordinary citizens turned into heroes in defense of their liberty, because that's the potential of freedom.

  Alan Keyes

  War, Hero, Liberty

  Alan Keyes' Speech during Rally in Idaho Falls, Idaho, www.keyesarchives.com. May 12, 2000.

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• There may be many who will gladly face death in the battlefield, but few who will face a hostile society.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Society, May, Faces

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• The battlefield is first and foremost horrible stenches, not sights, not sounds, but stenches. They don't travel well into literature.

  Amos Oz

  Sight, Sound, Literature

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I grew up watching MTV, when Journey was huge, when Pat Benatar had 'Love Is a Battlefield,' and my friends and I used to cut school to watch this woman in the video. We loved Pat Benatar.

  Mary J. Blige

  School, Cutting, Journey

  "Queen Mary". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. April 18, 2012.

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• Hamas' battle is against the Zionist occupation in the Palestinian land. Hamas has no desire to change its battlefield.

  Ahmed Yassin

  Change, Land, Desire

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• Joy is love exalted; peace is love in response; long-suffering is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; faith is love on the battlefield; meekness is love in tough situations; and temperance is love in training.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Love You, Long, Joy

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• In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Dream, War, Gun

  Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address, delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY

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