War Quote by Charles C. Mann Download Open image ““mounting a sustained war. Unhappily, these intriguing speculations”” — Charles C. Mann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare War
“we cannot predict with certainty the pattern of the war for which we prepare ourselves.” — J.C. Wylie Copy Share Image
“From what I’ve seen, the operations of war are constituted less of glorious attacks and valiant defences and more of an ongoing succession of… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Far from shocking the rulers of Europe, the war that erupted in August 1914 was widely anticipated, rigorously rehearsed, immensely resourced and meticulously planned.” — Paul Ham Copy Share Image
“Preparing for war, as was well known in other lands but perhaps not then in that one, is usually a self-fulfilling precaution.” — Dave Duncan Copy Share Image
“a nation is totally geared to the waging of war, it had better ensure that war keeps occurring somewhere; and” — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“It is vital that we not be made to seem wholly helpless in the opening moments of the war. Once a nation ceases to… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“If it were but known that the combined might of the world was against aggression, the war-minded could only seek his salvation in peace,… — Eden Phillpotts Copy Share Image
“Despite these warnings, the Great powers’ arsenals were brimful; their ranks, swollen. In this light, to suggest they groped or sleepwalked blindly into a… — Paul Ham Copy Share Image
“Everything in war hinges on what you know of your adversary's skills and asset.” — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
“AT THIS STAGE of the argument we find ourselves with four ideas relating to war and war strategy—that there will be war, that the… — J.C. Wylie Copy Share Image
What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A milpa is a field, usually but not always recently cleared, in which farmers plant a dozen crops at once, including maize, avocados, multiple… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
“In the classic successional course, each suite of plants replaces its predecessor, until the arrival of the final, “climax” ecosystem, usually tall forest.” — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
In 1491 the Inka ruled the greatest empire on earth. Bigger than Ming Dynasty China, bigger than Ivan the Great’s expanding Russia, bigger than… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
The Paris pact was correctly described by its opponents - greens and anti-greens alike - as toothless. But it was also the first time… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
“Drought indeed stressed the system, but the societal disintegration in the south was due not to surpassing inherent ecological limits but the political failure… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
“The Maya collapsed because they overshot the carrying capacity of their environment. They exhausted their resource base, began to die of starvation and thirst,… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
Prediction is a mug's game, but taking the side of water polluters has not been a winning political strategy for 50 years. Presidents Reagan,… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
The queue of activists, interest groups, and ordinary people wringing their hands over what a President Donald Trump might do in office is long,… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
“The varieties are not like islands, carefully apart,” Perales explained. “They are more like gentle hills in a landscape—you see them, they are clearly… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
“export of food from Ireland during the famine: 430,000 tons of grain in 1846 and 1847, the two worst years. “The Almighty indeed sent… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
“all states can be parceled into four types: pluralist, in which the state is seen by its people as having moral legitimacy; populist, in… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
The way I think of it, economics and ecology occupy two intellectual silos, isolated from each other. Even when they do take each other… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
“People came to our house from far and wide. Party and military bigwigs, some guy known as the “combat commander,” the village headman, and… — Masaji Ishikawa Copy Share Image
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a batter. Love is a war. Love is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The world," said Pavone, "will swing to the left. The whole world except America. The world will swing, not because people read Karl Marx,… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Five days or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last longer. — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I don't want to go into space because of war. I think we would if it was triggered. If China said they want to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a… — David Simon Copy Share Image
“Fear and desire for pleasure. Aggressiveness comes out of fear, predominantly, and sexuality predominantly out of the other. But they mix in the middle.… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
