"Direct pressure always tends to harden and consolidate……" — B. H. Liddell Hart

"Direct pressure always tends to harden and consolidate the resistance of an opponent."

— B. H. Liddell Hart

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65 Quotes by B. H. Liddell Hart

B. H. Liddell Hart has 65 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

...regrettable as it may seem to the idealist, the experience of history provides little warrant for the belief that real…
The hydrogen bomb is not the answer to the Western peoples' dream of full and final insurance of their security…
The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge…
The easiest and quickest path into the esteem of traditional military authorities is by the appeal to the eye, rather…
Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon - and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological…
A modern state is such a complex and interdependent fabric that it offers a target highly sensitive to a sudden…
The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present…
The principle of compulsory service, embodied in the system of conscription, lias been the means by which modem dictators and…
The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.
Direct experience is inherently too limited to form an adequate foundation either for theory or for application. At the best…
In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.
The most effective indirect approach is one that lures or startles the opponent into a false move - so that,…

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More Always Tends Quotes

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There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching… — Elias Canetti
It has become obligatory to fulfil a function which shall in some way be regarded as useful to the masses...Even… — Karl Jaspers
There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the price of foreign corn to… — Joseph Hume
Why is it that the finish line always tends to appear just after the point at which we most want… — Bear Grylls
The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the… — Peter Kreeft
A film is a boat which is always on the point of sinking-it always tends to break up as you… — Francois Truffaut
Good rock music always tends to be around. — Dave Davies
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it. — E. M. Forster
History shows that male homosexuality, which like prostitution flourishes with urbanization and soon becomes predictably ritualized, always tends toward decadence — Camille Paglia

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