Military Quotes - Page 38

• China's limited military power is for the sake of preserving national sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

  Li Zhaoxing

  Integrity, Sake, China

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• What, then is our duty? It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger-fraught ascent toward salvation.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Life, War, Anger

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.578, Simon and Schuster

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• The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time.

  Milton Friedman

  Time, War, Wells

  Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman (1990). “Free to Choose: A Personal Statement”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them.

  C. Wright Mills

  Power, Circles, Decision

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Power Elite”, p.18, Oxford University Press

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• Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Strength, Army, Feet

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• The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance; the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Causes, Empty, Wallets

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• Every time we have come to the end of a conflict, somehow we have persuaded ourselves that the nature of mankind and the nature of the world have changed on an enduring basis and so we have dismantle our military and intelligence capabilities. My hope is that as we wind down in Iraq and whatever the level of our commitment in Afghanistan, that we not forget the basic nature of humankind has not changed.

  Robert M. Gates

  Commitment, Iraq, Wind

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• God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, War, Men

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• If democracy succeeds in Egypt, other countries will follow. Should the democratic experiment in Egypt be hijacked by the military or anti-democratic Islamist groups, the revolution will fail elsewhere.

  David Ignatius

  Country, Spring, Egypt

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• The War of the Roses in England and the Civil War in America were both intestinal conflicts arising out of similar ideas. In the first the clash was between feudalism and the new economic order; in the second, between an agricultural society and a new industrial one. Both led to similar ends; the first to the founding of the English nation, and the second to the founding of the American. Both were strangely interlinked; for it was men of the old military and not of the new economic mind - men, such as Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Walter Raleigh - who founded the English colonies in America.

  J. F. C. Fuller

  War, Men, Order

  "Grant and Lee: A Study in Personality and Generalship" by J. F. C. Fuller, (Ch. 1), 1957.

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• In every conflict, some rhetoric and posturing, so we should take that aside. When facts is that everybody is exhausted and that no one believes that there is a military solution to this. The solution must be a political one.

  Staffan de Mistura

  Believe, Political, Facts

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Men and women serving in the military deserve better than what they're giving - what we're giving them. They don't know what they're going to be doing tomorrow.

  John McCain

  Men, Giving, Deserve Better

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I was brought up in a very naval, military, and conservative background. My father and his friends had very typical opinions of the British middle class - lower-middle class actually - after the war. My father broke into the middle class by joining the navy. I was the first member of my family ever to go to private school or even to university. So, the armed forces had been upward mobility for him.

  Christopher Hitchens

  War, Father, School

  Interview with Sasha Abramsky, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. December 16, 1997.

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• We should never allow computers to make inherently governmental decisions in terms of the application of military force, even if that's happening on the internet.

  Edward Snowden

  Decision, Computer, Internet

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When people are talking about cyber weapons, digital weapons, what they really mean is a malicious program that's used for a military purpose. A cyber weapon could be something as simple as an old virus from 1995 that just happens to still be effective if you use it for that purpose.

  Edward Snowden

  Mean, Simple, Talking

  "Exclusive: Edward Snowden on Cyber Warfare". Interview with James Bamford and Tim De Chant, www.pbs.org. January 8, 2015.

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• We all must be mindful that the United States has diplomatic, civilian, and military personnel deployed in other countries with both challenging security environments and active terrorist networks interested in targeting not just our facilities but our people. One of their greatest protections - knowing that the United States does not negotiate with terrorists - has been compromised.

  John Boehner

  Country, Knowing, People

  "BOEHNER: Obama Intentionally Kept The Bowe Bergdahl Prisoner Swap Secret" by Brett LoGiurato, www.businessinsider.com. June 3, 2014.

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• Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Running, Campaigns, Labels

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• The United States military is now using the music of Metallica and other heavy metal bands to break the will of Saddam Hussein supporters to get them to talk. Theyre blaring heavy metal music at them. That should make the artist feel pretty good, huh? Put your heart and soul into your last CD and the Army is using it to torture people.

  Jay Leno

  Heart, Army, Artist

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• Some people have criticized the United States and the United States military for guarding oil fields and not guarding the Iraqi National Museum which had priceless antiquities in it. They say that this shows a fundamental lack of respect for Iraqi history. I want to remind those people of this: The oldest relics in the museum, 5,000 or 6,000 years old. That oil is 65 million years old. You had to guard that. ... Those antiquities will only last another 5,000 or 6,000 years. When we burn that oil, those fumes will linger long after.

  Jon Stewart

  Years, Oil, Museums

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• There's been a coup, have you heard? It's the CIA coup. The CIA runs everything, they run the military. They're the ones who are over there lobbing missiles and bombs on countries. ... And of course the CIA is every bit as secretive as the Federal Reserve. ... And yet think of the harm they have done since they were established [after] World War II. They are a government unto themselves. They're in businesses, in drug businesses, they take out dictators ... We need to take out the CIA.

  Ron Paul

  Running, Country, War

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• Odyssey Dawn? That's not a military operation. That's a Carnival Cruise ship.

  Stephen Colbert

  Dawn, Ships, Odyssey

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• The military struggle may frankly be regarded for what it actually was, namely a war for independence, an armed attempt to imposethe views of the revolutionists upon the British government and large sections of the colonial population at whatever cost to freedom of opinion or the sanctity of life and property.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  War, Struggle, Government

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• I have not the smallest doubt that, if we had a purely democratic government here, the effect would be the same. Either the poor would plunder the rich, and civilisation would perish; or order and property would be saved by a strong military government, and liberty would perish.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Strong, Order, Government

  "The Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay" edited by Thomas Pinney, Vol. 6, p. 94, 1981.

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• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether by political disgust and personal confusion. Fifty years on, I don't associate the book with anything that ever happened to me, save for one wordless encounter at London airport when a worn-out, middle-aged military kind of man in a stained raincoat slammed a handful of mixed foreign change on to the bar and in gritty Irish accents ordered himself as much Scotch as it would buy. In that moment, Alec Leamas was born. Or so my memory, not always a reliable informant, tells me.

  John le Carre

  Memories, Book, Men

  "John le Carré: 'I was a secret even to myself'". www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2013.

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• There is a system of terroristic states-the real terror network-that has spread throughout Latin America and elsewhere over the past several decades, and which is deeply rooted in the corporate interest and sustaining political-military-financial propaganda mechanisms of the United States and its allies in the Free World.

  Edward S. Herman

  Latin, Real, Past

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