Army Quotes

• With this recitation of paraphernalia and detritus, O'Brien manages to encapsulate the experience of an army and of a particular war, of a mined and booby-trapped landscape, of cold nights and hot days, of soaking monsoons and rice paddies, and of the possibility of being shot, like Ted Lavender, suddenly and out of nowhere: not only in the middle of a sentence but in the midst of a subordinate clause.

  

  Francine Prose
  • War
  • Possibility
  • Landscape

• The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.

  

  Sean O'Casey
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Fighting

• It seems that certain transcendental realities emit rays to which the masses are sensitive. That is how, for example, when an event takes place, when at the front an army is in danger, or defeated, or victorious, the rather obscure news which the cultivated man does not quite understand, excite in the masses an emotion which surprises him and in which, once the experts have informed him of the actual military situation, he recognizes the populace's perception of that "aura" surrounding great events and visible for hundreds of kilometers.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Danger
  • Realities
  • Surprises

• Japan admitted the Imperial Army ordered the building of these brothels and the trafficking of the women. And now that it's been 70 years, there are only 46 remaining comfort women still alive in South Korea. So also in this deal, Japan is going to pay 1 billion yen - that's about 8 million U.S. dollars - to provide social services and health care to the surviving victims.

  

  Elise Hu
  • Women
  • Building
  • Victims

• The Army has carried the American... ideal to its logical conclusion... Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on the grounds of ability.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Funny
  • Military
  • Ability

• I grew up on army bases all over the world, but I'm from Alabama.

  

  Reg E. Cathey
  • World
  • Grew
  • Alabama

• If there is a God, the King of kings, there is also a Kingdom. If there is a Kingdom, there must also be an army. Now the question is, are you in this army and are you willing to fight for your King?

  

  Artur Pawlowski
  • King
  • Fight
  • Army

• For it is not without cause that one needs the police and the army to earn one's living or force and injustice to continue to exist.

  

  Albert Memmi
  • Needs
  • Police
  • Exist

• He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks.

  

  Sun Tzu
  • Spirit
  • Win
  • Army

• The government is a functionary of the corporations - and there's nothing new about that. You can find people in the 1930s talking about the army basically working for Wall Street in all of these countries [it invades].

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Country
  • Wall

• When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Ideas
  • Army
  • Coffee

• The Government is able to afford a suitable army and a suitable navy. It may maintain them without the slightest danger to the Republic or the cause of free institutions, and fear of additional taxation ought not to change a proper policy in this regard.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Able
  • Danger
  • Policy

• The Army needs leaders the way a foot needs a big toe.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Way
  • Army
  • Leaders

• I am old school, I joined the gay liberation movement in 1972. If you had told me in 1972 that in the year 2009 I would be campaigning for the right to join the army or get married I think I would have started dating women at that time.

  

  Cleve Jones
  • Thinking
  • School
  • Gay

• We remember the surge and we remember the Awakening -- when the abyss of chaos turned toward the promise of reconciliation. By battling and building block by block in Baghdad, by bringing tribes into the fold and partnering with the Iraqi army and police, you helped turn the tide toward peace.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Remember
  • Peace
  • Promise

• What seems most likely is that Hood and his staff, weary of mind, exhausted in body and confident the Federal army was still trapped, simply went to sleep.

  

  Eric Jacobson
  • Body
  • Confident
  • Staff

• My mum is bright, ambitious, well read, political and very bolshie: when my dad was conscripted into the Army and posted to Libya, she convinced some general to let her go with him. I don't know how she managed it.

  

  Jo Brand
  • She
  • Political
  • Dad

• The hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend. Remember officers and Soldiers, that you are Freemen, fighting for the blessings of Liberty - that slavery will be your portion, and that of your posterity, if you do not acquit yourselves like men.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Country
  • Fighting

• We have got to accept Big Government for the duration-for neither an offensive nor a defensive war can be waged, given our present government skills, except through the instrument of a totalitarian bureaucracy within our shores. … And if they deem Soviet power a menace to our freedom (as I happen to), they will have to support large armies and air forces, atomic energy, central intelligence, war production boards, and the attendant centralization of power in Washington-even with Truman at the reins of it all.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • War
  • Energy
  • Support

• The Love Army is a growing network of people who want to stick up for the underdogs in the red states and blue states in the era of [Donald] Trump.

  

  Van Jones
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• The loss of any army is always caused by underestimating the enemy. Therefore gather information and watch the enemy carefully.

  

  Zhuge Liang
  • Enemy
  • Information
  • Loss

• Give me an athlete and I'll give you an army.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Army
  • Athlete

• I doubt if there is any single individual within the scientific community who could cope with the full range of creationist arguments without the help of an army of consultants in special fields.

  

  David M. Raup
  • Community
  • Doubt
  • Helping

• For every man who has learned to fight in arms will desire to learn the proper arrangement of an army, which is the sequel of the lesson.

  

  Plato
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Arrangement

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