Warfare Quotes · Page 6

We know how to organize warfare, but do we know how to act when confronted with peace?

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

— Lucretius

Any time Uncle Sam, with all his machinery for warfare, is held to a draw by some rice eaters, he's lost the…

— Malcolm X

A soldier has one item that cannot be neglected. His feet. They are his wheels, his mechanised warfare.

— Leon Uris

And God would bid His warfare cease, Saying all things were well; And softly make a rosy peace, A peace of Heaven…

— William Butler Yeats

Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.

— Sun Tzu

Barack Obama's class warfare will not work on this Republican nominee. Not in Utah.

— Mia Love

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

— Henry David Thoreau

Young people now reside in a world in which there are few public spheres or social spaces autonomous from the reach of…

— Henry Giroux

“Amnesia was a soldier's best friend, and luckily, it could be taught. Missing limbs still ache, but missing memories never do.”

— Alex London

“Being consulted again whether it were requisite to enclose the city with a wall, [Lycurgus] sent them word, 'The city is well…

— Plutarch

Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the…

— Marcus Aurelius

What an admirable training is science for the more active warfare of life! Indeed, the unchallenged bravery which these studies imply, is…

— Henry David Thoreau

Treyarch contributed so significantly to the multiplayer technology that's in 'Modern Warfare 2,' and they didn't really get the credit for that.

— Bobby Kotick

It's troubling to see how often Winston Churchill is a proponent of massive programs that are really aimed at civilians - starvation…

— Nicholson Baker

Moreover, it is clear that the era of the information bomb, the era of aerial warfare, the era of the RMA and…

— Paul Virilio

Drones are sort of the perfect weapon for a country that doesn't want to go to war. It only - there's no…

— Mark Shields

One cannot make command decisions simply by assessing the tactical situation and going ahead with whatever course of action will do the…

— Joe Haldeman

Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards... Water shapes…

— Sun Tzu

Prayer is work. The experiences of many children of God demonstrate that it accomplishes far more than does any other form of…

— Watchman Nee

I think we're living in an age which despises humanity and despises bravery and doesn't need bravery because modern warfare has rather…

— Robertson Davies

“When he reached the last hole he saw, far to the west, a series of rockets bloom in the sky. He watched…

— Pat Frank

After a harassing warfare, prolonged by the nature of the country and by the difficulty of procuring subsistence, the Indians were entirely…

— Andrew Jackson

“When are we going to attack? Why don’t we attack?’ were the questions you heard night and day from Spaniard and Englishman…

— George Orwell

Germ warfare against the United States would escalate to war against all humanity.

— Yoshijiro Umezu

Christians must engage in "spiritual warfare" to combat same-sex marriage.

— Michele Bachmann

“War yet shall be, but warriors are now operatives; war's made less grand than peace.”

— Herman Melville

I answered the voice that I was a poor girl who knew nothing of riding and warfare.

— Joan of Arc

Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.

— Sun Tzu

Counter-insurgency warfare is not a simple thing... it's not as simple as, like, good guys versus bad guys. It is a mess.

— Chelsea Manning

Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie.

— Adam McKay

Naval Special Warfare is no place for the weak of heart, limb, or liver.

— Chuck Pfarrer

For the helmsman is recognized in the tempest; in the warfare the soldier is proved.

— Cyprian

If we're not going to tax the rich anymore, we're going to create class warfare.

— Lewis Black

Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser…

— Lawrence Durrell

I was in psychological warfare in World War II, so I know psychological warfare when I see it.

— Stefan Heym

“He was a real-life soldier playing soldier from his memories of made up soldiers.”

— Alex London

Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.

— Anonymous

In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I mostly hate organized religion, which I think is a force for the oppression of women and creates warfare.

— Erica Jong