Battlefields Quotes - Page 6

• We will be misguided in our intentions if we point at one single thing and say that it will prevent war, unless, of course, that thing happens to be the will, the determination, and the resolve of people everywhere that nations will never again clash on the battlefield.

  Leslie Groves

  Determination, War, Science

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• The halberd is inferior to the spear on the battlefield. With the spear you can take the initiative, the halberd is defensive.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  War, Initiative, Spears

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.14, Bottom of the Hill

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• Rules of conduct which govern men in their relations to one another are being applied in an ever-increasing degree to nations. The battlefield as a place of settlement of disputes is gradually yielding to arbitral courts of justice.

  William Howard Taft

  Men, Justice, Degrees

  "Dawn of World Peace", in U.S. Bureau of Education Bulletin, No. 8, 1912.

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• George Orwell once wrote that a false belief sooner or later collides with physical reality, usually on a battlefield.

  Al Gore

  Reality, Belief, Collide

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Nothing sends the message to your enemy that he has not fully understood the situation on the battlefield--a tactician's greatest sin--like zombies unexpectedly tapping their rear guard on the shoulder and eating their brains.

  Scott Kenemore

  Zombie, Brain, Enemy

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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, Army, Thinking

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• Genius scorns the power of gold: it is wrong. Gold is the war-scythe on its chariot, which mows down the millions of its foes, and gives free passage to the sun-coursers with which it leaves those heavenly fields of light for the gross battlefields of earth.

  Ouida

  Money, War, Light

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.52, Ouida

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• Writers brought up in Africa have many advantages - being at the center of a modern battlefield; part of a society in rapid, dramatic change. But in a long run it can also be a handicap: to wake up every morning with one's eyes on a fresh evidence of inhumanity; to be reminded twenty times a day of injustice, and always the same brand of it, can be limiting.

  Doris Lessing

  Running, Morning, Eye

  Doris Lessing (2012). “This Was the Old Chief’s Country: Collected African Stories Volume One”, p.6, HarperCollins UK

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• The enemy must be annihilated before he reaches our main battlefield. We must stop him in the water, destroying all his equipment while it is still afloat!

  Erwin Rommel

  War, Water, Enemy

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• It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.

  William Butler Yeats

  Fighting, Dark, Back Alleys

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• Because we men have been physically stronger and more arrogant, weve influenced much of the cool stuff of the world, like basing the definition of courage on what we do on battlefields rather than on the patience or endurance or tolerance necessary for a sometimes painful daily grind that includes small children.

  Clyde Edgerton

  Children, Men, Tolerance

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• We [in USA] have people honestly believing that, if a president calls a war, you have to shut up and sing. That is not the nation my mother raised me to pledge my allegiance to. We should speak out. We sent thousands of Americans to foreign battlefields to protect our way of life, which includes free speech. If you're not going to use it, it's already lost. We'll find a Mussolini who will tell us what's good for us.

  Phil Donahue

  Mother, War, Believe

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I'm fighting for this girl on the battlefield of love
  Got me look like baby Cupid
  Sending arrows from above

  Jay Sean

  Girl, Song, Baby

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• Your nafs (soul/desires) is your first battlefield. If you are victorious over it, then you will find the other battlefields easier.

  Hassan al-Banna

  Wisdom, Islamic, Soul

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• No one in the world can change Truth. What we can do and should do is to seek truth and to serve it when we have found it. The real conflict is the inner conflict. Beyond armies of occupation and the hecatombs [e.g. the sacrifice of many victims] of extermination camps, there are two irreconcilable enemies in the depth of every soul: good and evil, sin and love. And what use are the victories on the battlefield if we ourselves are defeated in our innermost personal selves?

  Maximilian Kolbe

  Business, Real, Army

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• I was in the midst of it all - saw war where war is worst - not on the battlefields, no - in the hospitals ... there I mixed with it: and now I say God damn the wars - allw ars: God damn every war: God damn 'em! God damn 'em!

  Walt Whitman

  War, Ems, Saws

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• When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is.

  Samuel Fuller

  Fighting, Survival, There Is Hope

  In 'Guardian' 26 February 1991

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• Reince has produced a fully funded, superbly staffed and technologically advanced strategy to position the GOP to win in '14 and '16, and he has done so via an inclusive outreach to all branches of the party while staying out of the bunker and in the MSM on a 24/7 basis. The Republicans cannot ask for more from the RNC than they have gotten and the political battlefield is as well prepared as it has been since 2004 as a result.

  Hugh Hewitt

  Party, Winning, Opportunity

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• Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.

  Martin Luther

  Loyalty, Soldier, Battle

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• However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.

  Randy Neugebauer

  War, Men, Community

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• The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought.

  Henry Waxman

  Respect, Military, Pay

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• Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war. Yet despite this capacity for internecine warfare, most companies roll along relatively peacefully, year after year, because they have routines—habits—that create truces that allow everyone to set aside their rivalries long enough to get a day’s work done.

  Charles Duhigg

  War, Years, Long

  Charles Duhigg (2012). “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change”, p.162, Random House

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• Because operators are based thousands of miles away from the battlefield, and undertake operations entirely through computer screens and remote audio feed, there is a risk of developing a 'PlayStation' mentality to killing.

  Philip Alston

  Risk, Audio, Aviation

  "Drone warfare: life on the new frontline" by Chris Woods, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2015.

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• If the Europeans truly wish to improve their NATO contribution they can show it simply enough. They can establish professional armed forces, like those of the UK. And they can acquire more advanced technology. Indeed, unless that happens soon the gulf between the European and US capabilities will yawn so wide that it will not be possible to share the same battlefield. Alas, I do not think that sharing battlefields with our American friends - but rather disputing global primacy with them - is what European defence plans are truly about.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Technology, Thinking, Wish

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• It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.

  Cornel West

  Fighting, Dark, Soul

  "Cornel West: Truth". Interview with Astra Taylor, killingthebuddha.com. November 15, 2009.

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