Combat Quotes

519 quotes by 411 authors

I'm not a man. I have no male pride for you to trick me with, and I am not interested in single combat. That is… — Cassandra Clare
Officers conditioned to conformity in peacetime cannot be expected to behave boldly and flexibly in combat. — Paul Yingling
Self-centered anger generates evil, but wrath at social injustice becomes the driving force for reform. Strong language that censures and combats a great evil often… — Daisaku Ikeda
Resolve not to be overcome by evil, but to combat evil with good. — Pope Francis
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with… — Charles Caleb Colton
All of the American's foreign wars have been fought with foes either too weak to resist them or too heavily engaged elsewhere to make more… — H. L. Mencken
The life of the individual is a continuous combat with errors and obstacles, and no victory is more satisfying than the one achieved against opposition. — Gustav Stresemann
Repudiating the sensible world, which he neither sees himself nor believes from those who have, the Peripatetic joins combat by childish quibbling in a world… — Johannes Kepler
Now, six months after he sent the military back into combat to take on the terror group calling itself the Islamic State, Mr. Obama has… — Peter Baker
A God who chastises our lack of faith, our vices, the little esteem in which we hold dignity and the civic virtues. We tolerate vice,… — Jose Rizal
At times you have to fight. No way around it. At some point, every one of us is confronted with danger or injustice. How we… — Bill O'Reilly
When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported… — Barney Frank
None of the people's wars of the sixties did very well, including the one in Vietnam. Vo Nguyen Giap himself has admitted a loss of… — Chalmers Johnson
In his Philosophy of Style, Herbert Spencer gives two sentences to illustrate how the vague and general can be turned into the vivid and particular:… — William Strunk, Jr.
Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat. Women often have to flee from… — Hillary Clinton
The purpose of all opprobrious language is, not to describe, but to hurt - even when, like Hamlet, we make only the shadow-passes of a… — C.S. Lewis
Light and the rational forms are locked in combat; light sets them into motion, bends what is straight, makes parallels oval, inscribes circles in the… — Paul Klee
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts. — William James
In all forms of strategy, it is necessary to maintain the combat stance in everyday life and to make your everyday stance your combat stance. — Miyamoto Musashi
All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: it's one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.... One of… — H. L. Mencken

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