Destructive Quote by Anonymous

It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win the war.

— Mark Lawrence

The world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased, the castle fallen silent in horror, and every combatant laid down their arms?

— J. K. Rowling

Fighting men are the city's fortress

— Alcaeus

“...[T]he Normans, with the usual policy of conquerors, were jealous of permitting to the vanquished Saxons the possession or the use of swords and…

— Walter Scott

“Or, obversely, he might kill a man himself. It would be a question of throwing up his rifle, pressing the trigger, and a particular…

— Norman Mailer

“But though towards the end of the battle the men felt all the horror of their actions, though they would have been glad to…

— Leo Tolstoy

“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

“We Built a Castle Near the Rocks, we built it out of sand. Our fortress was an ice-cream box with turret, tall and grand.…

— Jack Prelutsky

“Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The story of Lourdes starts centuries before young Bernadette encountered the beautiful woman at Massabielle. While the area of Massabielle was known as a…

— Carrie Gress

As each brigade emerged from the woods, from 50 to 100 guns opened upon it, tearing great gaps in its ranks; but the heroes…

— Daniel Harvey Hill

“In truth, warfare has changed very little since our great-great-grandfathers killed each other at places like Gettysburg, the Somme, Normandy, or Baghdad. It’s still…

— Marko Kloos