Catastrophe Quote by Albert Pike Download Open image “War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.” — Albert Pike ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Catastrophe Series Victory War
War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum. — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
Wars are fought to gain a certain objective. War itself is not the objective; victory is not the objective; you fight to remove the… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
The doctrines of the Bible are often not clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
If the Soul sees, after death , what passes on this earth , and watches over the welfare of those it loves, then must… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Death is the inseparable antecedent of life; the seed dies in order to produce the plant, and earth itself is rent asunder and dies… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
We are all naturally seekers of wonders. We travel far to see the majesty of old ruins, the venerable forms of the hoary mountains,… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
The Blue Degrees are but the outer court...of the temple. Part of the symbols are displayed there to the initiate, but he is intentionally… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Virtue is but heroic bravery, to do the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemies of flesh or spirit, in despite… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
“The freest people, like the freest man, is always in danger of re-lapsing into servitude. Wars are almost always fatal to Republics. They create… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Know thou the self (spirit) as riding in a chariot, The body as the chariot. Know thou the intellect as the chariot-driver, And the… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
There are great truths at the foundation of Freemasonry, truths which it is its mission to teach and which is constituting the very essence… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
To you, the people of Flint, I say, as I have before, I am sorry and I will fix it. No citizen of this… — Rick Snyder Copy Share Image
Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the palpable elements… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
It's the hardest thing on earth to like yourself, and then when you do, it's a catastrophe. I mean, the people I know who… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
We are upsetting the atmosphere upon which all life depends. In the late 80s when I began to take climate change seriously, we referred… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
The biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes from information that is freely available and… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe. The only… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
When the regime changed in Japan, the Japanese changed; Russians too can change, as long as the conditions for it are present once again.… — Vladimir Voinovich Copy Share Image
And in the racial climate of this country today, it is anybody's guess which of the 'extremes' in approach to the black man's problems… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“But I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different -… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
