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J F C Fuller has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The strongest army in the world [the French] facing no more than twenty-six [German] divisions, sitting still and sheltering behind steel and…
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Discipline is no longer literal obedience but intelligent obedience, for discipline aims at obedience coupled with activity of will. Once discipline weakens…
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The governments of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international in power…
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Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.
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To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy, it does;…
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As the aeroplane is the most mobile weapon we possess, it is destined to become the dominant offensive arm of the future.
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In the World War [WW1] nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and…
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It is absolutely true in war, were other things equal, that numbers, whether men, shells, bombs, etc., would be supreme. Yet it…
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally…
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What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new…
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Adherence to dogmas has destroyed more armies and cost more battles than anything in war.
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Jackson possessed the brutality essential in war; Lee did not. He could clasp the hand of a wounded enemy, whilst Jackson ground…
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By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to…
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Ours is an age in which thousands are driven daily from their homelands by the unforgiving brutalities of war, terrorism, political oppression,…
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To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national…
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Brutality creates respect.
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We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the Law of the Land. Our men, women and children have…
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I believe it's a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend…
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Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs is a phenomena which is at once disgusting and…
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No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until we look…
— Swami Vivekananda
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What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or…
— Florence Nightingale
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People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
— Richard J. Needham
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The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.
— Richard J. Needham
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