Battle Quote by Herman Melville

It's important to be viewed in a certain way in the history of the game of fighting.

— Shane Mosley

I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the…

— Kurt Vonnegut

If you read any sort of, like, military general autobiographies or biographies, most of them never wanted to fight, you know? It's necessary. War…

— Brian Azzarello

I think the reason I hadn't fought was just the aftermath of the Botha fight. You put so much into a fight, and people…

— Sonny Bill Williams

If it has to be that wars and battles are begun for many reasons and quarrels, then they should also be avoided and shunned…

— Christine de Pizan

“My problem is the opposite of mankind's: not having gone into battle often enough, not having waged enough war. I've always shied from confrontation,…

— Steven Rowley

The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate. No time for speeches now, it's time to fight.

— Homer

The single combats of the heroes of history or fable amuse our fancy and engage our affections: the skillful evolutions of war may inform…

— Edward Gibbon

“The war, therefore, if we judge it by the standards of previous wars, is merely an imposture. It is like the battles between certain…

— George Orwell

“The people who write that kind of stuff never fight; possibly they believe that to write it is a substitute for fighting. It is…

— George Orwell

It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that…

— George C. Marshall