Warfare Quotes
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Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose.
Miguel de Cervantes -
If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are so complex a considerable percentage of our material is bound to malfunction even before it is deployed against a foe. We no longer waste manpower by carrying the flag into battle. Instead we need battalions of electronic engineers to keep the terrible machinery grinding.
Ernest K. Gann
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Richard Stark writes a harsh and frightening story of criminal warfare and vengeance with economy, understatement and a deadly amoral objectivity-a remarkable addition to the list of the shockers that the French call roman noirs.
Anthony Boucher -
The problem is that so often we forget that we are in warfare and that Satan's target is our mind.
Kay Arthur -
If you look at footage of the Newfoundland Regiment, you see they are at rest and giddy and being silly with one another. Silliness is the antidote to trench warfare.
Michael Winter -
Global evangelism does not take place in a demilitarized zone but on the battleground of spiritual warfare. Satan, in vengeance and jealousy for that which belongs to God, is deceiving the nations and holding them in bondage to a lie.
Ed Stetzer -
Fellowship with God means warfare with the world.
Charles E. Fuller -
The usages and methods of warfare are thus determined by changing circumstances and, therefore, they themselves can in nowise be eternal.
Leon Trotsky
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When a nation has just emerged from the throes of a great civil warfare, where section was arrayed against section, class against class, two things are to be done: First, the work of reconstruction is to be effected; Secondly, a willingness for the proper acceptance of the issue's decision is to be created.
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II -
Here is nothing less than a silent duel between two human engines using and abusing all the faculties of the mind…. It is warfare in the most mysterious jungles of the human character.
Alfred Kreymborg -
It is increasingly difficult to find examples of warfare that are unaffected by globalization.
George Ritzer -
The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.
Samuel Richardson -
We have to get away from the class warfare and recognize that we are growing jobs by helping small business.
Norm Coleman -
We have no right ever to forget that psychological warfare is a struggle for winning people's minds.
Mikhail Gorbachev
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Throughout the entire course of history, warfare is always changing.
Andre Beaufre -
We see in the 20th Century an unfortunate trench warfare, in which psychoanalysis, in a struggle against the internalized compulsion and superstition of a particular doctrine, has expressed itself atheistically. By contrast, theology is not merely under suspicion of talking soullessly about God. Both theology and psychology, in striving for human health, need one another like the right and the left hand.
Eugen Drewermann -
There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.
Sun Tzu -
I like the concept of escalating warfare, but you need someone to fight back in order for things to escalate. If there's no confrontation or argument going on, it's too dull for me. I think that's the nature of the prankster: Things are too quiet. What can I do?
Joshua Malina -
We must also recognize the new realities of modern warfare and the modern landscape of a battlefield.
Susan Davis -
We are not as ready as we might be, and that is not a surprise given that we have devoted ourselves to a particular quality of warfare for so long.
Norton A. Schwartz
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National security rests on the credible threat of a form of warfare universally condemned since the Dark Ages, the wholesale slaughter of noncombatants.
George Will -
Foreign nations have begun to include information warfare in their war college curricula with respect to both defensive and offensive applications.
George Tenet -
Can we fight against and subdue ourselves? That is the greatest difficulty we ever encountered, and the most arduous warfare we ever engaged in.
Brigham Young -
If the Lord sets you to guard a lonely post in perfect stillness from all active work, you ought to be just as content as to be in the midst of the active warfare. It is no virtue to love the Master's work better than the Master's will.
Hannah Whitall Smith