Armies Quotes

• The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Combat
  • Armies
  • Refusing

• Here you find us sitting on a field of victory, amid the plunder of armies, and you wonder how we came by a few well-earned comforts!

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Wonder
  • Victory
  • Armies

• I sing the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them, They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them, And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Soul
  • Sing
  • Charge

• It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Believe
  • Enemy
  • Lights

• Modern empires rise and fall not on armies, ideology, or violence, but on the instantaneous flow of capital.

  

  Eric Van Lustbader
  • Violence
  • Empires
  • Armies

• Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.

  

  Will Durant
  • Armies
  • Vegetarian Foods

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