"Suppose we were (as we might be) an……" — T.E. Lawrence
"Suppose we were (as we might be) an influence, an idea, a thing intangible, invulnerable, without front or back, drifting about like a gas? Armies were like plants, immobile, firm-rooted, nourished through long stems to the head. We might be a vapour, blowing where we listed Ours should be a war of detachment. We were to contain the enemy by the silent threat of a vast, unknown desert"
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42 Quotes by T.E. Lawrence
T.E. Lawrence has 42 quotes on this site.
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Dream your dreams with open eyes and make them come true.
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As long as the arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people,…
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Yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to…
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It seems to me that the conquest of the air is the only major task for our generation.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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I haven't got a heart: only the former site of one, with a monument there to say that it has…
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Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.
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To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife.
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I could write for hours on the lustfulness of moving Swiftly,
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The dreamers of the day are dangerous... for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.
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In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in…
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There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters and I cannot find it. Hence the aimlessness.
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and…
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The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to…
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For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however…
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Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to…
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God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and…
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Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on Moscow'... Rule 2 is: Do…
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Evil does exist in the world. A non-violent movement could not have halted Hitler's armies. Negotiations cannot convince al Qaeda's…
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The students I've been with these twenty years are looking for a world where it becomes a little easier to…
— Colman McCarthy
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If you are situated at a great distance from the enemy, and the strength of the two armies is equal,…
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The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue…
— Sun Tzu
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When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out…
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