Absence Quote by Leo Tolstoy

Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to…

— Irving Babbitt

Military discipline is merely a perfection of social servitude.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The military is a place of discipline, technical proficiency, and personal sacrifice for the greater good.

— Tammy Duckworth

Discipline is, in a manner, nothing else but the art of inspiring the soldiers with greater fear of their officers than of the enemy.…

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

The characteristic feature of militarism is not the fact that a nation has a powerful army or navy. It is the paramount role assigned…

— Ludwig von Mises

Discipline is the soul of an army.

— George Washington

“Primitive (and guerrilla) warfare consists of war stripped to its essentials: the murder of enemies; the theft or destruction of their sustenance, wealth, and…

— Lawrence H. Keeley

Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.

— Cullen Hightower

“Military life in general depraves men. It places them in conditions of complete idleness, that is, absence of all rational and useful work; frees…

— Leo Tolstoy

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

In the United States, rising esteem for the military in uniform corresponds to the growing militarization of the society as a whole. All of…

— Michael Hardt

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

— George Washington