Battlefields Quotes

45 quotes by 38 authors

This nation was founded by rebels and revolutionaries, and its flags were carried across the battlefields by people who were very, very against the status… — Lupe Fiasco
We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and… — Madeleine L'Engle
More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the… — Joyce Maynard
Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on… — Marshall McLuhan
But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our… — Robert Ardrey
There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble… — Victor Hugo
They [intellectuals] coined most of the slogans that guided the butcheries of Bolshevism, Fascism, and Nazism. Intellectuals extolling the delights of murder, writers advocating censorship,… — Ludwig von Mises
As long as there are slaughter houses there will always be battlefields. — Leo Tolstoy
Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had won… — Winston Churchill
Sheâ€™s special. We used to unleash her on ancient battlefields just to see soldiers chop their best friends into pieces before falling on their own… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
We find heroes, not on battlefields, but in hospitals that tend the injured. Sometimes I think itâ€™s easier to fight than it is to heal. — Ann Aguirre
One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the world, but you might save the… — Diana Gabaldon
Acts of bravery don't always take place on battlefields. They can take place in your heart, when you have the courage to honor your character,… — Anna Quindlen
A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought. — Honore de Balzac
Companies arenâ€™t families. Theyâ€™re battlefields in a civil war. — Charles Duhigg
Yes...how else could Demandred explain the skill of the enemy general? Only a man with the experience of an ancient was so masterly at the… — Robert Jordan
Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are… — Victor Hugo
If I took the 40 years of my dad talking to me about war and battles and taking me to battlefields and distilled it down… — Suzanne Collins
I learned long ago on the battlefields of Vietnam that in a crisis, there is no substitute for clear-eyed leadership. — Jim Webb
Some of the worst violence in the world today between estranged religious and ethnic groups happens not on the battlefields. It happens smack in the… — Miroslav Volf

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