"For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the……" — B. H. Liddell Hart
"For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought."
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65 Quotes by B. H. Liddell Hart
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...regrettable as it may seem to the idealist, the experience of history provides little warrant for the belief that real…
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The hydrogen bomb is not the answer to the Western peoples' dream of full and final insurance of their security…
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The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge…
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The easiest and quickest path into the esteem of traditional military authorities is by the appeal to the eye, rather…
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Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon - and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological…
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A modern state is such a complex and interdependent fabric that it offers a target highly sensitive to a sudden…
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The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present…
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The principle of compulsory service, embodied in the system of conscription, lias been the means by which modem dictators and…
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The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.
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Direct experience is inherently too limited to form an adequate foundation either for theory or for application. At the best…
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In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.
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The most effective indirect approach is one that lures or startles the opponent into a false move - so that,…
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An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures,…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that…
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Art is significant deformity.
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Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other,…
— Bernard de Mandeville
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Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.
— Dean Acheson
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Thou lump of foul deformity!
— William Shakespeare
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It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has…
— Alexander Hamilton
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It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is…
— Max Beerbohm
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I was born with lots of deformities.
— Gemma Arterton
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The Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, Sir, they appear to…
— Patrick Henry
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By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea,…
— Margaret Sanger
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My coat and I live comfortably togther. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded…
— Victor Hugo
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