Warfare Quotes

326 Warfare quotes by 252 unique authors

Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats the Good, by… — Franz Kafka
Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Dream of battled fields no more. Days of danger, nights of waking. — Walter Scott
Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er. — Walter Scott
If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are so complex a… — Ernest K. Gann
Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.… — James Madison
A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social system is worthless. — Mahatma Gandhi
There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon… — Mary Elizabeth Braddon
He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people… — Thomas Jefferson
All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him. — Sun Tzu
The leader of men in warfare can show himself to his followers only through a mask, a mask that he must make for himself, but… — John Keegan
Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion. — Marcus Aurelius
Through most of its wars, the United States successfully used the attrition approach. It is easier to be proficient at this type of warfare. You… — Unknown Author
Understanding future warfare is the most important responsibility of those who must defend a nation from future enemies! — Perry M Smith
Christianity is warfare, and Christians are spiritualsoldiers. — Robert Southwell
Naval Special Warfare is no place for the weak of heart, limb, or liver. — Unknown Author
To the mind which looks not to general results in the economy of Nature, the earth may seem to present a scene of perpetual warfare,… — William Buckland
If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for, but the methods… — Hans Bethe
Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards... Water shapes its course according… — Sun Tzu
Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity; (2) They cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straight forwardness; (3) Without subtle ingenuity… — Sun Tzu
Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished,… — George Bernard Shaw
As a result of continuous work with these highly toxic substances, our minds were so numbed that we no longer had any scruples about the… — Otto Hahn
This is not class warfare, this is generational warfare. This administration and old wealthy people have declared war on young people. That is the real… — James Carville
We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself. — Wendell Berry
I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above all, that obstinate and perverse… — Augustus William Hare
The real lost souls don't wear their hair long and play guitars. They have crew cuts and trained minds, sign on for research in biological… — J. B. Priestley

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