I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“In war the first principle is to disobey orders. Any fool can obey orders!”
“In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.”
“In war, the key to victory is the ability to surprise one's opponent.”
Source: Warrior of the Light
“In war the moral is to the material as three to one. Napoleon”
Source: The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
“In war the olive branch of peace is of use.
[Lat., Adjuvat in bello pacatae ramus olivae.]”
“In war the only sure defense is offense, and the efficiency of the offense depends on the warlike souls of those conducting it.”
“In war, the only true victory is peace.”
Source: Look into the stillness
“In war the simplest manoeuvres are the best.”
“In war, the victory is just the blossom, and nothing is more frustrating than a bloom that refuses to morph into some fruit.”
Source: Self-Liberation of Parson Sykes: Return to Southampton County
“In war the will is directed at an animate object that reacts.”
Source: On War
“In war there are none but particular cases; everything has there an individual nature; nothing ever repeats itself. In the first place, the data of a military problem are but seldom certain; they are never final . Everything is in a constant state of change and reshaping.”
Source: Precepts and Judgments
“In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!”
“In war there is no prize for runner-up.”
“In war there is no prize for the runner-up.”
“In war there is no second prize for the runner-up.”
“In war trivial causes produce momentous events.”
“In war, truth is the first casualty. Everyone has their own version of what’s right and wrong, but reality gets twisted in the heat of battle.”
Source: High Hearts
“In war, words are not innocent they travel with consequences.”
“In war you are nowhere, neither part of the past nor the future, and it opens up a hunger in you that widens with each day. Until that is all you are. You could easily get swallowed up by it. I've seen it happen. At times I believed I saw life as it truly is, naked, and it shook my soul. It is a terrible thing to see.”
Source: My Friends
“In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, and therefore it's safe to say that in a war story nothing is ever absolutely true.”
Source: The Things They Carried
“In war you see your own troubles; those of the enemy you cannot see. You must show confidence.”
“In war, as in love, we must come into contact before we triumph.”
“In war, as in politics, no evil - even if it is permissible under the rules - is excusable unless it is absolutely necessary. Everything beyond that is a crime.”
“In war, as in prostitution, amateurs are often better than professionals.”
“In war, bullets; in love, deceptions kill us.”
“In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“In war, discipline can do more than fury.”
“In war, discipline is superior to strength; but if that discipline is neglected there is no longer any difference between the soldier and the peasant.”
“In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.”
“In war, everyone has their chance to bleed.”
Source: Heartfire: The Tales of Alvin Maker
“In war, force is used by the belligerents themselves, no effort being made to bring evildoers before a judicial body, each army acting as judge, jury and executioner.”
Source: Kirby Page and the social gospel: an anthology
“In war, good guys always become bad guys.”
“In war, groping tactics, half-way measures, lose everything.”
“In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand griefes prove.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“In war, important events result from trivial causes.”
“In war, men are nothing, one man is everything.”
“In war, mere appearances have had all the effect of realities; and that a person, under a firm persuasion that he can command resources, virtually has them; that very prospect inspiring him with hope and boldness in his exertions.”
“In war, moral factors acount for three quarters of the whole; relative material strength accounts for only one quarter.”
“In war, numbers alone confer no advantage. Do not advance relying on sheer military power.”
Source: The Art of War
“In war, one cannot say what one feels.”
Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls
“In war, only the simple succeeds.”
“In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight.”
“In war, practice dissimulation and you will succeed.”
Source: Sun Tzu Art of War
“In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.”
Source: Technics and Civilization
“In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.”
“In war, the general alone can judge of certain arrangements. It depends on him alone to conquer difficulties by his own superior talents and resolution.”
“In war, the moral element and public opinion are half the battle.”
“In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.”
“In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.”
Source: The Complete War Memoirs
“In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.”
Source: Oscar Wilde The Dover Reader