Governing Quote by Ferdinand Foch Download Open image “The unknown is the governing principle of war.” — Ferdinand Foch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Governing Leadership Principles Sports War
But how can you understand a war without any knowledge of the society where it happens? It's like trying to understand birth without knowing… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
War is a crucial, deeply ingrained part of human history. It has to be understood. — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
It was an old lesson learned by governments: that war solves problems of control. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The legitimacy of a war is not established by how it is organized but by what it achieves. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The theory of war as an apt and proportionate means of solving international conflicts is now out of date. — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
“(1) War becomes a completely isolated act, which arises suddenly, and is in no way connected with the previous history of the combatant States. (2) If it is limited to a single solution, or to several simultaneous solutions. (3) If it contains within itself the solution perfect and complete, free from any reaction upon it, through a calculation beforehand of… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share
War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy. — Alfred Hermann Fried Copy Share Image
The laurels of victory are at the point of the enemy bayonets. They must be plucked there; they must be carried by a hand-to-hand… — Ferdinand Foch Copy Share Image
My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack. — Ferdinand Foch Copy Share Image
Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless. — Ferdinand Foch Copy Share Image
Far from being a sum of distinct and partial results, victory is the consequence of efforts, some of which are victorious while others appear… — Ferdinand Foch Copy Share Image
In war there are none but particular cases; everything has there an individual nature; nothing ever repeats itself. In the first place, the data… — Ferdinand Foch Copy Share Image
I am conscious of having served England as I served my own country. — Ferdinand Foch Copy Share Image
The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious. — Ferdinand Foch Copy Share Image
The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The US has developed two coordinate governing classes: the one, called 'business,' building cities, manufacturing and distributing goods, and holding complete and autocratic power over the livelihood of millions; the other, called 'government,' concerned with preaching and exemplification of spiritual ideals, so caught in a mass of theory, that when it wished to move in a practical world it had… — Thurman Arnold Copy Share
It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share
While receiving radiation treatment for a thyroid illness, I had refused to take beta-blockers - a medication that would have eased its side effects… — Gail Devers Copy Share Image
Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The EU Constitution is something new in human history. Though it is not as eloquent as the French and U.S. constitutions, it is the first governing document of its kind to expand the human franchise to the level of global consciousness. The language throughout the draft constitution speaks of universalism, making it clear that its focus is not a people,… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share
A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The attack on youth is a national pathology, unwarranted by fact, smokescreen for the failure of adulthood and its leadership to confront larger predicaments. No rescue by the monied, governing, institutional, or otherwise privileged is in sight. It's up to the energy and inventiveness of the younger generation to pull the gated minds of millennium America toward acceptance of diversity,… — Mike A. Males Copy Share
[The current governing judicial philosophy is:] If you want something passionately enough, it is guaranteed by the Constitution. No need to fiddle around gathering… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
It is already clear that, because of advances in technology, drones are going to play an increased role in warfare in the years ahead.… — Douglas Alexander Copy Share Image
Following World War II, the U.S. was the architect of the UN system, and the world financial system, and the Human Rights Declaration, and… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
This isn't about fans, greed or money. It's about being morally right or wrong. Nobody is governing the way music gets from artists to… — Lars Ulrich Copy Share Image
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