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  • In a position of this sort, even though the enemy should offer us an attractive bait, it will be advisable not to stir forth, but rather to retreat, thus enticing the enemy in his turn; then, when part of his army has come out, we may deliver our attack with advantage.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Art Quotes , War Quotes
  • What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad? — All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? — The feeling that power is increasing — that resistance has been overcome.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , War Quotes , Men Quotes
  • That was what, ultimately, war did to you. It was not the physical dangers--the mines at sea, the bombs from the air, the crisp ping of a rifle bullet as you drove over a desert track. No, it was the spiritual danger of learning how much easier life was if you ceased to think.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , War Quotes
  • To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmth beneath the lee of some old barn or rick, or in the hollow of a tree; are dismal things - but not so dismal as the wandering up and down where shelter is, and beds and sleepers are by thousands; a houseless rejected creature.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Country Quotes , War Quotes
  • In America, we then made a commitment, particularly after World War II with the GI Bill, to massively expand our commitment to college education, and that meant we had more engineers and we had more scientists and that meant we had better technology, which meant that we were more productive and we could succeed in the global marketplace.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , War Quotes , Commitment Quotes
  • The [Vietnam War Memorial] Wall became a magnet for citizens of every generation, class, race, and relationship to the war perhaps because it is the only great public monument that allows the anesthetized holes in the heart to fill with a truly national grief.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Wall Quotes , War Quotes
  • Brutus, I do observe you now of late: I have not from your eyes that gentleness And show of love as I was wont to have: You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand Over your friend that loves you. Poor Brutus, with himself at war, Forgets the shows of love to other men.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Love Quotes , War Quotes
  • ... how have I used rivers, how have I used wars to escape writing of the worst thing of all-- not the crimes of other, not even our own death, but the failure to want our freedom passionately enough so that blighted elms, sick rivers, massacres would seem mere emblems of that desecration of ourselves?
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Freedom Quotes , War Quotes