Cities Quote by Alcaeus Download Open image “Fighting men are the city's fortress” — Alcaeus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cities Fighting Fortresses Men
“When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men's weapons will grow dull and their ardour will be damped.… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Men are fighting one another because they are convinced that the extermination and liquidation of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Men who want to fight will always put themselves in the most advantageous conditions for fighting. The” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Two decades of virtually uninterrupted fighting had made even the most dignified structures appear drunken, wounded, or lost. The entire city seemed to affirm… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
Therefore the best fortress is to be found in the love of the people, for although you may have fortresses they will not save… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
He who wishes to fight must first count the cost. When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men's… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“These men were dedicated fighters – tough, determined, contemptuous of danger, arrogant and touchy, extravagant and impossible; examples, perhaps a little larger than life… — J.H. Elliott Copy Share Image
Laying siege to enemy-controlled cities allows attacking armies to keep their own casualties low by avoiding urban combat. — Walid Muallem Copy Share Image
It was a ludicrous, insane situation in which modern fighting men, possessed all of the highly destructive engines of war, were ordered to attack… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use… — Alcaeus Copy Share Image
One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all. — Alcaeus Copy Share Image
To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in… — Alcaeus Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population. — Carlo Ratti Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All Germany was in turmoil. Revolutionaries seized power in the cities of Munich, Hanover and Cologne. One regional German government after another was toppled… — James Cross Giblin Copy Share Image
Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away. — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
I know of not one Republican candidate that would not appear publicly with Mitt Romney and I know many Democrats that don't even want… — Pete Sessions Copy Share Image
Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited. — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills.… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
