Guerrillas Quotes

• Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  War, Support, Kind

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• We don't want to impose our solutions by force, we want to create a democratic space. We don't see armed struggle in the classic sense of previous guerrilla wars, that is as the only way and the only all-powerful truth around which everything is organized. In a war, the decisive thing is not the military confrontation but the politics at stake in the confrontation. We didn't go to war to kill or be killed. We went to war in order to be heard.

  Subcomandante Marcos

  Powerful, Military, War

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• Guerrilla war is a test of wills. Obama's actual objectives - rollback in Iraq, containment in Syria - are not unreasonable. But they require commitment and determination. In other words, will. You can't just make one speech declaring war, then disappear and go fundraising.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Determination, War, Commitment

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• Be realistic, demand the impossible!

  Che Guevara

  Ambition, Demand, Impossible

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• Millions of mind guerrillas, raising the spirit of peace and love, not war.

  John Lennon

  War, Mind, And Love

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• Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. It is invincible, indestructible.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Mean, Warfare, Band

  1833 General Instructions for the Members of Young Italy, section 4.

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• The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Fighting, Army, Winning

  "The Vietnam Negotiations". Foreign Affairs, Vol. 48, No. 2, p. 214, January 1969.

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• I wonder whether those of our political masters who have been put in charge of the defence of the country can distinguish a mortar from a motor; a gun from a howitzer; a guerrilla from a gorilla, although a great many resemble the latter.

  Sam Manekshaw

  Country, Badass, Army

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• The United States can certainly defeat North Vietnam, but the United States cannot defeat a guerrilla war which is being raged from a sanctuary through a pattern of penetration, intervention, evasion, which is very difficult for a technologically advanced country like the United States to combat.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Country, War, United States

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• We are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence — on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day

  John F. Kennedy

  Mean, Army, Night

  Address to the American Newspaper Publishers, delivered 27 April 1961, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

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• We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our psychological exhaustion. In the process we lost sight of one of the cardinal maxims of guerrilla war: the guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win. The North Vietnamese used their armed forces the way a bull-fighter uses his cape to keep us lunging in areas of marginal political importance.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Military, War, Army

  "The Vietnam Negotiations". Foreign Affairs, Vol. 48, No. 2, p. 214, January 1969.

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• The guerrilla band is not to be considered inferior to the army against which it fights simply because it is inferior in fire power.

  Che Guevara

  Fighting, Army, Fire

  Che Guevara (2002). “Guerrilla Warfare”, p.52, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• Guerrilla warfare is used by the side which is supported by a majority but which possesses a much smaller number of arms for use in defense against oppression.

  Che Guevara

  Numbers, Majority, Warfare

  Che Guevara (2002). “Guerrilla Warfare”, p.52, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• My generation has not seen one single day of peace, and my dream is for my children and the children of all Colombians to have the change to see it. I hope the guerrilla understands that the time has come to leave this 50-year confrontation behind; that the time has come to change from bullets to votes, from weapons to argumentations; that the time has come for them to continue their struggle, but within democracy.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Dream, Children, Struggle

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• But now that the guerrilla fighting is over, the Spaniards are again men without a country or families or homes or work, though everyone appreciates very much what they did.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Country, Home, Fighting

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• In a guerrilla war, the line between legitimate and illegitimate killing is blurred. The policies of free-fire zones, in which a soldier is permitted to shoot at any human target, armed or unarmed, further confuse the fighting man's moral senses.

  Philip Caputo

  War, Fighting, Men

  Philip Caputo (2014). “A Rumor of War”, p.327, Macmillan

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  World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Military, War, Division

  Marshall McLuhan (2015). “Culture Is Our Business”, p.66, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• It hit me that an Apache resistance would be a wonderful, you know, it would be a wonderful metaphor for Jewish-American soldiers to be using behind enemy lines against the Nazis because the Apache Indians... were able to fight off for decades both the Spaniards and the Mexicans and the U.S. Cavalry for years because of their - they were great guerrilla fighters. They were great resistance fighters. And one of their ways of winning battles was psychological battles.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Fighting, Winning, Years

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History Listen". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

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• There's a beauty shop companion called School of Beauty, School of Culture at the Birmingham Museum of Art. I got an email that said a couple had a guerrilla wedding in front of that picture. They slipped into the museum with a preacher and had their wedding ceremony in front of it. It turns out that the woman is a beautician and the man is a barber, they had seen that picture, and they said it was the perfect place to get married.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Art, Couple, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• William R. Polk discusses the Spanish guerrilla war against Napoleon [ Bonaparte] and other cases where the conflict turns into a political war, and the invader, who usually has overwhelming power, loses because they can't fight the political war.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Fighting, Political

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• I would never accept general impunity for the guerrillas!

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Accepting, Impunity

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• [Francisco Franco] said they should resort to guerrilla war. Which has a history in Spain.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Spain, Should

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• The military ain't there for the people's protection,
  They're just there to protect an investment.
  That's why people get arrested, electrocuted, molested,
  Connected streets are infested with those tired of protesting.
  Traumatized children grown in guerrilla garrisons,
  9/11 generations pale in comparison.
  And you will learn a lesson repeated through history:
  That no matter what you think, occupation is not victory.

  Immortal Technique

  Children, Military, Rap

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• The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge hammer to ward off a swarm of mosquitoes.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Hammers, Mosquitoes

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• Social Democratic and trade union organs have approved of the illegal invasion of Belgium, of the massacre of suspected guerrillas, as well as their wives and children, as well as the destruction of their homes in various towns and districts.

  Clara Zetkin

  Children, Home, Wife

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