“I left home at 14 and I have friends who joined the navy and the army performing troops at 9. I know people [like that]. It's a very straightforward character.” PeopleKnowsCharacterHomeLeftArmyPerformingTroopsNavyStraightforward Author:Amanda Schull
“Each restorational advancement of the Army of the Lord has established denominational forts that are given responsibility to maintain the purity and power of that truth... New recruits are now being drafted and trained and older soldiers and generals are being put through intensified training for the next advancement of the Church Army. They are being purified by the Baptism of Fire... Are you ready? Where do you start? What will you do? A new government must be established, a new way of life for those millions of people. You are now ready to rule and reign on your overcomer's throne!” PeopleWayGovernmentNextGivenChurchResponsibilityLordMillionsFireReadyTrainingArmySoldierPurityNew WaysThronesReignAdvancementBaptismRecruitFortsNew GovernmentNew Way Of Life Author:Bill Hamon
“We are coming to the times when passive Christianity and passive Christians will cease to exist. There is a maturity, a discipline and a divine militancy coming upon the people of God. Those who have succumbed to humanistic and idealistic theologies may have a hard time with this, but we must understand that God is a military God. The title that he uses ten times more than any other is "the Lord of Hosts", or "Lord of armies". There is a martial aspect to his character that we must understand and embrace for the times and the job to which we are now coming.” PeopleMayHardCharacterUseChristianJobsChristianityLordMilitaryDivineDisciplineTenAspectArmyEmbraceCeaseTheologyTitlesMaturityHard TimesHostPassiveIdealisticHumanisticMilitancy Author:Rick Joyner
“I have a strong army I keep with me and we don't go out there looking for problems. A lot of people have this perception... but I don't have a superiority complex about me because I'm from New York or because I'm Peruvian/Black. I think some people get caught up in that stuff.” PeopleThinkingProblemStrongStuffBlackNew YorkPerceptionArmyComplexesCaughtSuperiorityCaught UpSuperiority ComplexPeruvians Author:Immortal Technique
“The whole military structure in Haiti that existed until the early 1990s was put in place by the American occupation. At the top there were Southern white officers, who led an army that crushed the indigenous resistance - the cacos. A high-ranking U.S. officer said when he arrived, "To think these niggers speak French!" Later, Haitian officers attended the notorious School of the Americas at Fort Benning. The threat from the U.S. is something that is always hanging over people's heads: If we don't behave, we'll have occupation again.” PeopleIfsThinkingSaidWholeSchoolSpeakWhiteMilitaryArmyStructureThreatResistanceBehaveOccupationOfficersSouthernIndigenousCrushedHaitiNotoriousRankingFortsHaitianSpeaks French Author:Edwidge Danticat
“It may be that Satan has little cause to fear most preaching. Yet past experiences sting him to rally all his infernal army to fight against God's people praying.” PeopleMayLittlesPastFightingCausesPrayingArmySatanPreachingPast Experiences Book:Why Revival Tarries Source: Why Revival Tarries
“We have great information. They're going to welcome us. It'll be like the American Army going through the streets of Paris. They're sitting there ready to form a new government. The people will be so happy with their freedoms that we'll probably back ourselves out of there within a month or two.” PeopleTwoGovernmentFormStreetsInformationReadyMonthsSittingArmyWelcomeParisNew GovernmentAmerican ArmyStreets Of Paris Author:Dick Cheney
“Seriously, if I switched on the TV and they were showing live footage of an army of fire-breathing pterodactyls machine-gunning people to death on the streets of London right outside my door, I'd be horrified, but not entirely surprised, nor any more scared than I already am. I'd probably just shrug and wait for them to smash the door down. We're so screwed, I don't even know what to worry about first.” PeopleIfsKnowsFirstsWaitingWorryFireDoorsStreetsTvsMachinesArmyScaredLondonBreathing Author:Charlie Brooker
“There was a lot of drama in school because, well, people have problems at home and they take it out on their friends in school. Trying to impress people, they became bullies. I hated it because I know what it's like to be picked on, and I never liked not fitting in, especially moving around so much as a kid because I was an Army brat. My dad was in the Army.” PeopleKnowsTryingWellsProblemHomeKidsSchoolMovingDadDramaArmyMy DadHatedImpressBullyFittingBratNot FittingArmy Brat Author:Michelle Rodriguez
“In 1998, I was trained by the SPLA [Sudanese People's Liberation Army ] in London how to pretend to be a geologist.” PeopleArmyLondonLiberationGeologist Author:Kola Boof
“I have never received full credit from the SPLA [Sudanese People's Liberation Army], because the men are very sexist and feel that I'm acting out of place, bringing too much attention to myself - but for the funeral of our leader John Garang, they had me write the poem "Chol Apieth" to eulogize him, and that was their way of acknowledging my contributions.” PeopleMenWayFeelsWritingActingAttentionLeaderToo MuchHe ManArmyCreditLiberationContributionFuneralSexistActing Out Author:Kola Boof
“I was trained in Army Intelligence, but spent most of my army career in the infantry. But like many people of my generation, I was very much caught up in the Cold War, and books and movies about espionage.” PeopleBookWarCareersGenerationsColdArmyCaughtCold WarCaught UpMy GenerationEspionageInfantryBooks And Movies Author:Nelson DeMille
“You don't really want an army of people making individual decisions. And I don't think I completely understood that until people gave me examples of what happens when your army takes over your government and it's like, "Oh, yeah, I guess you can't really have people make individual moral decisions."” PeopleThinkingWantGovernmentHappensIndividualDecisionMoralExampleUnderstoodArmyYeahOver YouMoral Decisions Author:Joel Stein
“No one looks for pots of gold, it just happens. Sure, some people are born with an incredible financial ability, and some people are natural salesmen, but creating a business, driving a venture, mobilizing an army, is not something you are born to do - it just happens, by accident.” PeopleLooksHappensBornNaturalAbilityCreatingGoldArmyIncrediblesFinancialAccidentsDrivingPotVentureSalesmanPot Of Gold Author:Ronnie Apteker
“They [US Administration] have exploited hip-hop and some of the culture around it - magazines, videos, etc. - to recruit people into the military. The Army says it will give out Hummers, platinum teeth, or whatever to those that actually join.” PeopleGivingCultureMilitaryArmyHip HopVideoTeethMagazinesAdministrationHipsEtcHopsRecruitPlatinum Author:Chuck D
“I like the idea of getting to dress up, like to do a Barry Lyndon or something about the Napoleonic period, the grand army retreating from Moscow. I understand that there's a craft to acting and a lot of people work hard at it. I just know that music is my first love. I love music, I love film, and I love clothes.” PeopleKnowsFirstsIdeasHardFilmActingHard WorkPeriodsClothesMusic IsArmyDressesCraftsFirst LoveMusic LoveMoscowI Love MusicLove FilmsNapoleonic Author:Ian Astbury
“To be courageous , you have to have an army of people holding you.” PeopleArmyCourageousBe Courageous Author:Reese Witherspoon
“I think it speaks to the fact that other people are as excited about originality as we are. I think the thing that has been wonderfully communicated in the trailers and all the promotion for the movie [Swiss Army Man] is that it isn't like anything else you've ever seen, and we're not just saying that. I think that excites people.” PeopleThinkingMenHas BeensFactsSpeakArmyExcitedOriginalityPromotionTrailersJust SayingSwiss Author:Daniel Radcliffe
“I'm really excited to share the movie [Swiss Army Man] with people, so I'm glad that people are seeing it. And I want them to, because I think it's a really fun movie to experience sitting next to people. It makes it funnier. It makes it more comfortable. It makes it sweeter.” PeopleThinkingMenWantNextFunSeeingShareComfortableSittingArmyExcitedGladSwissFun Movie Author:Paul Dano
“The American and the British armies liberated camps, there wasn't a single order of the day: Let's go and liberate the camp. They stumbled upon the camps. Same thing with the Russians, I asked the Colonel who liberated Auschwitz, they didn't, there wasn't a priority. But I feel that that was a mistake, it was a sin because they could have saved so many people and they didn't.” PeopleFeelsOrderSinMistakeArmyBritishSavedPrioritiesCampsLiberatedAuschwitzColonelsBritish Army Author:Elie Wiesel
“We respect and honor very deeply those people who decide to serve their country in the military. But we certainly don't denigrate people who choose a different course, particularly when we have an all-volunteer army.” PeopleDifferentCountryCoursesMilitaryHonorArmyVolunteerVery Deep Author:Mitt Romney
“It's really good to talk about it [ hydraulic penises and prosthetic butts], and it's very gratifying when people ask us about the other aspects of the film [Swiss Army Man], but [those things] are part of the movie and they're important and hilarious, a very fun part of the movie, so there's no sense from us of not wanting to talk about that. I think it's exciting that those things exist in a film that is also very heartfelt and emotional and profound.” PeopleThinkingMenImportantFilmAsksFunEmotionalAspectExcitingArmyProfoundHeartfeltSwissProsthetics Author:Daniel Radcliffe
“Those things [t hydraulic penises and prosthetic butts and all that] can be what's genuinely shocking about the movie [Swiss Army Man] because people wouldn't expect to be moved by any of it.” PeopleMenArmyMovedShockingSwissProsthetics Author:Daniel Radcliffe
“When Saddam Hussein was eliminated, the Iraqi statehood and thousands of people from the former Baath party were also eliminated. Thousands of Iraqi servicemen, who were part of the state's Sunni elite, found themselves thrown out into the street. No one gave a thought about them, and today they end up in the ISIS army.” PeopleEndsStatesTodayFoundPartyStreetsArmyFormerThrownElitesSaddamHusseinIsisServicemen Author:Vladimir Putin
“Unfortunately, my rivals are spreading all kinds of suspicions for political reasons that are absolutely not true. They've tried accusing me of agreeing to dismantle the army, of jeopardizing private property, of giving the pensions of policemen to the guerillas - all kinds of lies. What they want is for people to be afraid of peace.” PeopleWantGivingKindReasonPoliticalLyingArmyPropertyAll KindsSuspicionRivalsPolicemenPrivate PropertyPensionAccusingAccusing Me Author:Juan Manuel Santos
“In fact, the big steps forward for advertising, especially after World War I were when government just began employing the tools of advertising for its own purposes to get people to join the army and other things.” PeopleWorldWarFactsBigsGovernmentPurposeStepsToolsArmyAdvertisingWar Of The WorldsWorld War ISteps ForwardEmployingJoining The Army Author:Tim Wu
“Do you know why I won the last elections? It was because the people liked me, yes, because I had worked, yes, but also because the opposition had behaved badly toward me. And do you know why I won this war? Because my army was able to do it, yes, but also because the Americans were on the side of Pakistan.” PeopleKnowsWarAbleLastsSidesArmyElectionOppositionDo You KnowPakistan Author:Indira Gandhi
“I think that as the guardian of justice elected by the people it's our duty to use whatever forms of force, police, army, to make sure that at least the freedom of choice is preserved.” PeopleThinkingUseFormChoicesForceJusticeDutyArmyPoliceGuardianFreedom Of Choice Author:Pierre Trudeau
“From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country. So, who killed ? That's another question. Actually, the terrorists have been killing our people since the beginning of this crisis two years and a half ago, and the Syrian people wanted the government and the state institutions and the army and the police to defend them, and that's what happened.” PeopleYearsFirstsHas BeensTwoCountryStatesGovernmentWantedPresidentDecisionHalfHappenedArmyPoliceCrisisInstitutionsKillingTerroristTwo Years Author:Bashar al-Assad
“The army is made of the people ; it cannot be made of robots.” PeopleMadeArmyRobots Author:Bashar al-Assad
“We wouldn't have withstood for two years and a half. We would have disintegration of the army, disintegration of the whole institution in the state ; we would have disintegration of Syria if that was the case. It can't be tolerated in Syria. I'm talking about the normal reaction of the people. If it's not a national army, it cannot have the support, and if it doesn't have the public support of every sect, it cannot do its job and advance recently. It cannot. The army of the family doesn't make national war.” PeopleIfsYearsTwoWarStatesWholeJobsHalfTalkingCasesSupportNormalArmyInstitutionsReactionsTwo YearsSyriaSectsDisintegration Author:Bashar al-Assad
“Talking about winning and losing is like if you're talking about two armies fighting on two territories, which is not the case. Those [terrorists] are gangs, coming from abroad, infiltrate inhabited areas, kill the people, take their houses, and shoot at the army. The army cannot do the same, and the army doesn't exist everywhere.” PeopleIfsTwoFightingHouseWinningTalkingCasesLosingAreasArmyTerroristTerritoryGangWinning And LosingFighting On Author:Bashar al-Assad
“[Francisco] Franco's army was mainly Moorish. They were recruiting people from Morocco to come to Spain. There was an uprising in Morocco at the time led by Abd el-Krim (whose tactics influenced Ho Chi Minh and Che Guevara) that sought independence for Morocco and Northern Africa.” PeopleArmyIndependenceSpainTacticsUprisingFrancoMoroccoFrancisco Franco Author:Noam Chomsky
“Our concern is to help people counter the efforts of those who seek to "regiment the public mind every bit as much as an army regiments the bodies of its soldiers," so that the self-designated "responsible men" will be able to run the affairs of the world untroubled by the "bewildered herd" - the general public - who are to be marginalized and dispersed, directed to personal concerns, in a well-regulated "democracy."” PeopleMenWorldMindWellsSelfHelpingBodyRunningAbleBitsEffortDemocracyConcernArmyResponsibleAffairSoldierHerdsBewilderedMarginalizedGeneral Public Author:Noam Chomsky
“I need an army. I need people out there who are either preaching with me to different audiences that I can't get to or who are implementing the work and helping people actually learn their why or practice their why or implement their why because I don't do that.” PeopleNeedsI CanDifferentHelpingPracticeAudienceArmyPreachingHelping PeopleImplementing Author:Simon Sinek
“What I say is join me and be part of the army and find ways that maybe even I haven't thought of I haven't even thought of to help spread this message and inspire people to do what inspires them. That's what I need you to do.” PeopleWayNeedsHelpingHavensInspireMessagesArmySpreadNeed YouI Need You Author:Simon Sinek
“Look at the Intifadah in Jerusalem. One cannot understand that phenomenon, a phenomenon where people, often very young boys, are successfully harassing one of the best armies in the world, without appreciating their freedom to move!” PeopleWorldLooksMovingYoungBoysAppreciateArmyPhenomenonJerusalem Author:Paul Virilio
“I say this ironically, not because I favor the State, but because people are not in the state of mind right now where they feel that they can manage themselves. We have to go through an educational process - which does not involve, in my opinion, compromises with the State. But if the State disappeared tomorrow by accident, and the police disappeared and the army disappeared and the government agencies disappeared, the ironical situation is that people would suddenly feel denuded.” PeopleIfsFeelsMindDoeStatesGovernmentProcessSituationOpinionTomorrowRight NowArmyPoliceEducationalAccidentsFavorsManageCompromiseAgencyState Of MindGovernment Agencies Author:Murray Bookchin
“There are 400 to 500 people north of the Cannonball River in the contested zone, in the treaty zone, in the place where, according to the United States Army Corps of Engineers, we are not supposed to be. And they are going to stand their ground.” PeopleStatesUnitedUnited StatesRiversArmySupposed To BeZoneEngineersTreatiesUnited States ArmyCannonballs Author:Chase Iron Eyes
“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.” PeopleWantStatesGrowingTrumpRedArmyBlueSticksErasUnderdog Author:Van Jones
“Textbooks don't teach people how to avoid paying any income tax. But that's what an army of tax lawyers and corporate tax accountants do.” PeopleTeachTaxesArmyLawyerIncomeCorporateIncome TaxTextbooksAccountants Author:Michael Hudson
“Historically, the new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias. And the states required men to have certain weapons and they specified in the law what weapons these people had to keep in their home so that when they were called to do service as militiamen, they would have them. That was the entire purpose of the Second Amendment.” PeopleMenStatesHomeGovernmentLawPurposeCertainPayWeaponsArmyAmendmentsNo MoneySecond AmendmentMilitiaNew Government Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“The 50,000 Korean mercenaries we had in Vietnam were professional killers and just massacred people outright. And the American army did plenty of that too, but it couldn't take it after awhile. It's not the kind of job you can give to conscripts who are not trained to be murderers.” PeopleGivingKindJobsArmyPlentyVietnamKillersMurdererKoreanAmerican Army Author:Noam Chomsky
“That's why the army sends all its future generals to what we call "charm school." As soon as you are a general, people think that you know everything. You think yourself that you have become omniscient and omnipotent. Be careful, because people want to do everything they can to please the general, and you need to guard against this.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantNeedsSchoolPleaseArmyCarefulCharmBe CarefulOmnipotentOmniscient Author:Colin Powell
“300 years after the rise of Islam there were Zoroastrians in Iran. The Muslim armies never forced people to accept Islam. It was only within Arabia that God ordered the idolaters to have a choice of either embracing Islam or fight against Muslims, because He wanted to remove this terrible idolatry that exited there. But outside Arabia where Islam met Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians and Hindus, they were given a choice by and large. That's why many Christians and Jewish communities survived in the Muslim world, but gradually many of them embraced Islam for different reasons.” PeopleWorldYearsDifferentReasonWantedChristianChoicesFightingGivenCommunityAcceptingTerribleMetsArmyIslamJewRemoveIranSurvivedIdolatryArabiaMuslim WorldJewish Community Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr
“In the back of every painting there's an entire universe that makes it possible for the painting to be there: an army of conservators, technicians, people who maintain these things, the market.” PeopleUniversePaintingArmyTechnicians Author:Vik Muniz
“If your father is an air-conditioner repairman from Nebraska, its conceivable that you might become a CEO, but you can't imagine being the drama critic for the New York Times. So if you come from a background like that and you want to actually have a career which involves doing something noble in the world, what can you do? You can join the army. That's about it. Or you can work for the church. That explains a lot of the focus of right-wing populism. The right wing figured that out, that people want enough to survive and to do good.” PeopleWorldEnoughFatherChurchFocusImagineDramaArmyCriticsCeoRight Wing Author:David Graeber
“That really sums up the strange bluntness that a really prime German interview can have. They're really interested in your cultural velocity in this way that I don't think people in the United States even necessarily think about alternative-rock bands. So it's not like we're against regular rock. We're not like a battling army shaking our weapons against The Rolling Stones.” PeopleThinkingStrangeArmyShakingRolling Stones Author:John Flansburgh
“I have felt for a long time that the pathway to solving the climate crisis is through the building of a massive grassroots army of men and women who will go out there and win the conversation on climate, and persuade businesses, and universities, and towns to switch to renewable energy and to reduce emissions. And the big change from ten years ago is that people are way more receptive, not only to the message that we have to act, not only to the message that now we can act, we have the solutions now - that's the biggest change - but also willing to make a commitment that we will act.” PeopleMenLongWinningEnergyBuildingSolutionsMen And WomenCommitmentArmyCrisisRenewable Energy Author:Al Gore
“I was just a seventeen-year-old kid, going to Times Square to participate in this left-wing demonstration. The signs were for peace and justice and so on. But then I was attacked by police mounted on horseback and on foot. Before I knew it, I was clubbed and knocked unconscious. So it gave me a radical view of the United States, a critical view of the role of the state and of the instruments of the state - the police, the Army, and so on - as not being neutral at all in political battles, but being generally against workers and against striking people, against dissenters of all kinds.” PeopleKindKidsPoliticalJusticeBattleArmyPoliceAll KindsRadicalUnconsciousPeace And JusticeTimes Square Author:Howard Zinn