Combat Quotes - Page 5

• Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice. We always have to ask ourselves whether the level of risk is worth the story. What is bravery, and what is bravado? Journalists covering combat shoulder great responsibilities and face difficult choices. Sometimes they pay the ultimate price.

  Marie Colvin

  War, Responsibility, Difficult Choices

  "Opinion: Colvin fought injustice, armed only with words and images" by Hannah Storm, www.cnn.com. February 23, 2012.

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• While combat efficiency is a primary function of Shaolin Kung Fu, a more immediate and useful benefit in our law-abiding society is attaining radiant health and vitality.

  Wong Kiew Kit

  Law, Vitality, Abiding

  Wong Kiew Kit (2002). “The Art of Shaolin Kung Fu: The Secrets of Kung Fu for Self-Defense, Health, and Enlightenment”, p.17, Tuttle Publishing

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• The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a car accident or a bad divorce. Life's filled with trauma. You don't need to go to war to find it it's going to find you. We all deal with it, and the effects go away after awhile. At least they did for me.

  Sebastian Junger

  War, Divorce, Car

  "Restrepo co-directors Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington". Interview with Christopher Kompanek and Chris Kompanek, film.avclub.com. June 25, 2010.

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• We know that silence equals consent when atrocities are committed against innocent men, women and children. We know that indifference equals complicity when bigotry, hatred and intolerance are allowed to take root. And we know that education and hope are the most effective ways to combat ignorance and despair.

  Gabrielle Giffords

  Children, Ignorance, Men

  "Giffords Tragedy: What’s the Message to Young Women Considering Public Service?" by Gloria Feldt, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2011.

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• I decided to start a medical training program for freelancers, only freelancers. They're the ones who are doing most of the combat reporting. They're taking most of the risks. They're absorbing most of the casualties. And they're the most underserved and under-resourced of everyone in the entire news business.

  Sebastian Junger

  Risk, Training, News

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• I'll tell you what. I've been in combat. I've seen it, I've been close to it... and if my unit is danger, and I've got a captured guy, and the guy knows where the enemy is, and I'm looking him in the eye, the guy better tell me. That's all I'm gonna tell you. The guy better tell me. If it's life or death, he's going first.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Eye, Guy, Enemy

  "The Radio Factor", January 18, 2005.

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• Bean-counting government bureaucrats are free to take race, ethnicity and gender into account when doling out public funds to non-white-male contractors. But God help law enforcement officers, air marshals and border agents who try to use those same factors to combat terrorism and protect American lives.

  Michelle Malkin

  White, Race, Government

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• Repudiating the sensible world, which he neither sees himself nor believes from those who have, the Peripatetic joins combat by childish quibbling in a world on paper, and denies the Sun shines because he himself is blind.

  Johannes Kepler

  Believe, Shining, World

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• There is only one purpose in hand-to-hand combat, and that is to kill. Never face an enemy with the idea of knocking him out. The chances are extremely good that he will kill you.

  William Powell

  Hands, Ideas, Enemy

  "The Anarchist Cookbook". Book by William Powell, Chapter Three: "Natural, Nonlethal, and Lethal Weapons", p. 79, 1971.

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• I see the bomber pictures as an anti-war statement... which they aren't - at all. Pictures like that don't do anything to combat war. They only show one tiny aspect of the subject of war - maybe only my own childish feelings of fear and fascination with war and with weapons of that kind.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, War, Feelings

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• I was out in the combat engineers. We would throw up bridges in advance of the infantry but mainly we would just throw up.

  Mel Brooks

  Bridges, Infantry, Engineers

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• The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.

  Hippocrates

  Physicians, Disease, Patient

  Hippocrates (1849). “The Genuine Works of Hippocrates”, p.360

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• Self-centered anger generates evil, but wrath at social injustice becomes the driving force for reform. Strong language that censures and combats a great evil often awakens adverse reactions from society, but this must not intimidate those who believe they are right. A lion is a lion because he roars.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Strong, Believe, Self

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• There's a rule saying I have to ground anyone who's crazy ... There's a catch. Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy.

  Joseph Heller

  Crazy, Want, Duty

  Joseph Heller, Robert M. Scotto (1973). “Joseph Heller's Catch-22: A Critical Edition”

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• Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence.

  James Joyce

  Buddhism, Civilization, Excellence

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.2227, Delphi Classics

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• I don't know why I've always been uncomfortable being too feminine. If a dress has too many flowers on it, if I'm giggling too much, I'm like ugh, put some combat boots on. I love masculine women. I think it's because I'm like a fake lesbian, I don't know.

  Moon Bloodgood

  Flower, Thinking, Fake

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Delay, Faults

  Samuel Johnson (1848). “The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.145

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• Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion.

  William Ernest Henley

  Men, Mind, Common

  William Ernest Henley (1921). “The Works of William Ernest Henley: Views and reviews”

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• The cure to combat the three Ss- stress, strain, and speed- can be found in three Ws- the work of devoted practice, the wisdom that comes of understanding the self and the world, and worship because ultimately surrendering to what we cannot control allows the ego to relax and lose the anxiety of its own infinitesimally small self in the infinitude of the divine.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Stress, Self, Practice

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• Industrial-strength foolishness sets in-in males, at least-at about the age of 18. This is why the military prefers males in the 18-to-25-year-old range when there's combat to be done.

  Russell Baker

  Military, Years, Age

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• Resolve not to be overcome by evil, but to combat evil with good.

  Pope Francis

  Evil, Overcoming, Resolve

  "Pope Francis to People of Boston: 'Resolve Not to be Overcome by Evil'" by Rebecca Hamilton, www.patheos.com. April 16, 2013.

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• Officers conditioned to conformity in peacetime cannot be expected to behave boldly and flexibly in combat.

  Paul Yingling

  Conformity, Behave, Expected

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• The only way to combat failure is to see it as an opportunity to improve your direction.

  Todd Duncan

  Opportunity, Way

  Todd Duncan (2002). “High Trust Selling: Make More Money in Less Time with Less Stress”, p.23, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool by management and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled nor bribed.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Brother, Integrity, Simple

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• All of the American's foreign wars have been fought with foes either too weak to resist them or too heavily engaged elsewhere to make more than a half-hearted attempt. The combats with Mexico and Spain were not wars; they were simply lynchings.

  H. L. Mencken

  War, Lynching, Political

  H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.43, Cosimo, Inc.

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