Combat Quotes · Page 17

Politics, of course, requires sweat, work, combat, and organization. But these should not be ugly words for and free people.

— Nelson Rockefeller

“The slaves toiling in the temple of this god began to feel rebellion at his harsh tasks.”

— Stephen Crane

I loved 'Gladiator,' and I thought its depiction of gladiatorial combat, although it was an aggrandizing picture, was cleverly and expertly done.

— Mary Beard

Much as soldiers come back, they've been in combat or the edge of it and suddenly that adjustment back to civilian life…

— Mark Dayton

The fundamental principle is that no battle, combat, or skirmish is to be fought unless it will be won.

— Che Guevara

The most important thing in fighting was shooting, next the various tactics in coming into a fight and last of all flying…

— Anonymous

This is an historic step forward in the world's efforts to combat a truly global threat.

— Kofi Annan

If you look at the difference between the first Clash record and 'Combat Rock,' what an evolution.

— Laura Jane Grace

It will make you powerful. But it will also make you weak. Your prowess in combat will be beyond any mortal's, but…

— Rick Riordan

You're in a combat zone one day. You come home, and then you have to readjust, and it takes a few days.…

— Chris Kyle

I do not argue that nature is sacrosanct in the sense that we must never tamper with nature. That would disempower, really,…

— Michael Sandel

“In combat as in life, the outcome is never certain, the picture never clear. There are no guarantees of success. But in…

— Jocko Willink

What I saw when I was a child was my father who was a pilot, and because of circumstances was thrown into…

— Rahul Gandhi

“Most firefights go by so fast that acts of bravery or cowardice are more or less spontaneous. Soldiers might live the rest…

— Sebastian Junger

My sister, with her ratty red-highlighted hair and her linen pajamas and her combat boots—how could she possibly worry about being possessed…

— Rick Riordan

To combat the confusion and depression that assault me when I come off the road in the middle of a tour, I…

— Henry Rollins

“PTSD is curable when one realises how the unconscious mind works and that the symptoms of PTSD are actually the unconscious mind…

— Roger Roger

I don’t believe rape is inevitable or natural. If I did, I would have no reason to be here. If I did,…

— Andrea Dworkin

We need to say that women have sex, have abortions, are at peace with the decision and move on with their lives.…

— Katha Pollitt

“Wait,” Maggs said. “Nobody knows what the incubation period for this thing is, right?” Hartwig didn’t take his eyes off Kindra. “Seemed…

— Joe Schreiber

...the first murmurings from the liberal part of the U.S.A. that we were somehow in the wrong, brutal killers, bullying other countries;…

— Marcus Luttrell

I'm just challenging white supremacy at its intellectual heart every day. It's a pedagogy that I deploy against some of the most…

— Michael Eric Dyson

None of the people's wars of the sixties did very well, including the one in Vietnam. Vo Nguyen Giap himself has admitted…

— Chalmers Johnson

Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain -…

— Adam Hochschild

I was in Saudi Arabia on 9/11 and was part of the initial leadership team to execute the initial combat operations in Afghanistan.

— Martha McSally

...you can extend your life tremendously by eating the right things. By eating right you can combat almost everything: disease, fatigue, over-work.

— Fred Richmond

I wanted to experiment with more deliberate combat but I never wanted to lose that DNA of what 'God of War' is.

— Cory Barlog

Le mariage doit incessamment combattre un monstre qui de v ore tout: l'habitude. Marriage should always combat the monster that devours everything:…

— Honore de Balzac

No guts, no glory. If you are going to shoot him down, you have to get in there and mix it up…

— Frederick C. Blesse

Anyone who has spoken to experienced combat troops knows that they rarely brag about their exploits. Strong and silent is the preferred…

— Linda Colley

For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially…

— Kathryn Bigelow

I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the…

— H. L. Mencken

“So it came to pass that as he trudged from the place of blood and wrath his soul changed.”

— Stephen Crane

One the most efficient ways to combat gun violence is to prevent criminals from obtaining guns in the first place.

— Conor Lamb

To be a good fighter pilot, there is one prime requisite think fast, and act faster.

— John Trevor Godfrey

The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.

— Larry Wilcox

Boxing is the magic of men in combat, the magic of will, and skill, and pain, and the risking of everything so…

— F.X. Toole

The reason I'm disabled is because I have wounds and injuries that I got while on active duty ... from parachute jumping…

— Richard Carmona

We should be challenging and reforming our legislation around the world to actually combat hostile actors, whether they're domestic or foreign.

— Christopher Wylie