War Quote by Tacitus Download Open image ““This is an unfair thing about war: victory is claimed by all, failure to one alone.”” — Tacitus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare War
“Every war is not worth fighting and every victory is not worth celebrating because not ever disagreement should create an enemy.” — Tonny K. Brown Copy Share Image
“There's no such thing as a limited victory. Every victory leaves another resentment, another defeated and humiliated people. Another place to guard and defend… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Winning is better than losing, but everybody loses when the war isn't one worth fighting.” — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“Getting victory over a war that you can definitely win is a common thing. Winning a war that is totally based on enemy's terms… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“Every war is a murderous struggle between foes. And yet, no army has ever marched into battle believing that the Creator had sided with… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
“Victory!? There is no victory in war! War takes everything and gives nothing!” — Joseph R. Lallo Copy Share Image
“In a war where both sides are wrong, the side which loses first, wins.” — Harsh Snehanshu Copy Share Image
“Well, there was one thing which very soon struck me, and that was that the soldiers used always to lose and the civilians to… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Nobody likes war not even those who survive it, not even the winners.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
None mourn more ostentatiously than those who most rejoice at it [a death]. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
None mourn more ostentatiously over the death of Germanicus than those who most rejoice at it [a death]. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast. — Tacitus 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