Best battle & force Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When I used to teach civil procedure as a law professor, I would begin the year by telling my students that “civil procedure is the etiquette of ritualized battle.” The phrase, which did not originate with me, captured the point that peaceful, developed societies resolve disputes by law rather than by force.”

Source: Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist

“When you have resolved to fight a battle, collect your whole force. Dispense with nothing. A single battalion sometimes decides the day.”

War Sometimes Whole Fighting Force Battle

Book:Napoleon's Military Maxims

Source: Napoleon's Military Maxims

“The fate of a battle is the result of a moment, of a thought: the hostile forces advance with various combinations, they attack each other and fight for a certain time; the critical moment arrives, a mental flash decides, and the least reserve accomplishes the object.”

War Moments Certain Fighting Force Results Fate Objects Battle Various Accomplish Critical Combination Flash Reserves Hostile Critical Moments

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.”

War Force Battle Sufficient Coins Wisps

Author:Francois Rabelais

“Human character is never found "to enter into its glory," except through the ordeal of affliction. Its force cannot come forth without the offer of resistance, nor can the grandeur of its free will declare itself, except in the battle of fierce temptation.”

Humans Character Found Force Battle Offers Glory Resistance Temptation Free Will Fierce Affliction Grandeur Ordeals

Book:Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons

Source: Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons

“In Europe itself it is not probable that war will ever absolutely cease until science discovers some destroying force so simple in its administration, so horrible in its effects, that all art, all gallantry, will be at an end, and battles will be massacres which the feelings of mankind will be unable to endure.”

Art War Ends Feelings Force Simple Mankind Effects Battle Europe Endure Cease Horrible Administration Destroying Massacres Gallantry

Book:The Martyrdom of Man

Source: The Martyrdom of Man

“Working together, America's military, Iraqi security forces and the Iraqi people have won a major battle in the war on terrorism.”

People War Together America Force Security Military Battle Majors Terrorism Working Together War On Terror War On Terrorism Security Forces

Author:Paul Ryan

“When you do battle, even if you are winning, if you continue for a long time it will dull your forces and blunt you edge...If you keep your armies out in the field for a long time, your supplies will be insufficient. Transportation of provisions itself consumes 20 times the amount transported.”

Ifs Long Winning Force Fields Amount Battle Long Time Army Edges Dull Provision Transportation Supplies Blunt Insufficient

Author:Sun Tzu

“Each day the forces of evil and the forces of good enlist new recruits. Each day we personally make many decisions showing the cause we support. The final outcome is certain---the forces of righteousness will win. But what remains to be seen is where each of us personally, now and in the future, will stand in this battle---and how tall we will stand. Will we be true to our last days and fulfill our foreordained missions?”

Lasts Certain Evil Winning Force Causes Decision Support Battle Remains Finals Missions Being True Outcomes Each Day Righteousness Tall Last Day Recruit

Author:Ezra Taft Benson

“To struggle and battle and overcome and absolutely defeat every force designed against us is the only way to achieve.”

Way Force Struggle Achieve Battle Overcoming Defeat

Author:Nannie Helen Burroughs

“If the world is an aggregate of relatively independent regions, then any assumption of universal laws is false and a demand for universal norms tyrannical: only brute force (or seductive deception) can then bend the different moralities so that they fit the prescriptions of a single ethical system. And indeed, the idea of universal laws of nature and society arose in connection with a life-and-death battle: the battle that gave Zeus the power over the Titans and all other gods and thus turned his laws into the laws of the universe.”

“But the devil is a subtle worm; he does not give up at one defeat, for he knows human nature, and the strength of the forces which battle for him.”

Knows Giving Humans Doe Force Human Nature Battle Giving Up Devil Defeat Subtle Worms Not Giving Up

Book:The Profits of Religion

Source: The Profits of Religion

“The commander must decide how he will fight the battle before it begins. He must then decide who he will use the military effort at his disposal to force the battle to swing the way he wishes it to go; he must make the enemy dance to his tune from the beginning and not vice versa.”

Way Use Fighting Force Wish Effort Enemy Military Battle Vices Preparation Tunes Swings Commanders Vice Versa

Author:Bernard Law Montgomery

“My advice is: 1. Be judicious in the use of military force. 2. When military force is required, use overwhelming force. 3. Do not micromanage military leaders. 4. Ensure your battle plans will win the conflict and win the peace.”

Use Winning Force Leader Plans Advice Military Battle Conflict Overwhelming Military Force Military Leader Overwhelming Force

Author:Steve Stivers

“You make the world come alive. You make the world colorful. You are the inspiration behind all that happens. You are the pillar of strength to many around you, the centrifugal force of your own little world, called family. I love being a women and celebrate being one everyday, hope you all do too!! And to all those who battle their various circumstances, the hurdles, the sacrifices and the compromises they make, wish them all inner strength! Happy Women's Day!”

“Imperialism has been defeated in many partial battles. But it remains a considerable force in the world, and we cannot expect its final defeat save through effort and sacrifice on the part of all of us.”

World Has Beens Force Effort Sacrifice Battle Remains Finals Defeat Defeated Imperialism

Book:Che Guevara Speaks

Source: Che Guevara Speaks

“The 21st century will not be about the battle between capitalism and socialism but between the forces of progress and the forces of conservatism.”

Force Progress Century Battle Capitalism Socialism 21st Century Conservatism Capitalism And Socialism

Author:Tony Blair

“The Bible indicates that for three days, Jesus went into the very depths of hell. Right into the enemy's own territory. And He did battle with Satan face to face. Can you imagine what a show down that was? It was good vs. evil. Right vs. wrong. Holiness vs. filth. Here are the two most powerful forces in the universe have come together to do battle for the first time in history. But thank God. The Bible says, "Satan was no match for our Champion". This was no contest.”

“So in 1924, Eleanor Roosevelt really gets a sense of what the limits of the battle and the contours of the battle are going to be. The men are contemptuous of the women, and the women really need to organize. She writes an article which becomes an article she writes in different ways over and over and over again: Women need to organize. They need to create their own bosses. They need to have support networks and gangs so that they are a force.”

Men Way Needs Writing Different Force Support He Man Battle Limits Different Ways Boss Articles Organize Gang Eleanor Contemptuous

Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook

“There's a pretty epic battle "Part 2" of Twilight. It's really involved and it took us a few weeks to film it, because there was so many of us and it was such a large, massive war. I think they're really gonna love that. I feel like we've been working up to this the whole series and there was a bit of confrontation, but you never really got to see all the vampires go full force.”

Thinking Feels War Whole Film Force Bits Week Involved Battle Series Vampire Massive Twilight Epic Confrontation Epic Battle

Author:Ashley Greene

“There are cases - for example, the American Revolution. George Washington's army lost just about every battle with the British, who had a much better army. The war was basically won by guerrilla forces that managed to undermine the British occupation.”

War Lost Force Cases Example Revolution Battle Army British Occupation American Revolution Guerrillas

Author:Noam Chomsky

“All I can tell you is that Israel's position in the Arab world has changed because they no longer see Israel as their enemy, but as their ally, in their indispensable battle against the forces of militant Islam, either those led by Iran, the Shiites, or - and those led by Daesh - by ISIS, the militant Sunnis.”

World I Can Force Enemy Position Changed Battle Islam Israel Iran Allies Indispensable Isis Militant Arab World

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“History is full of instances of people who challenged the mighty forces of evil and they were not only fighting a lonely battle but were left alone to die.”

People Dies Fighting Evil Left Force Battle Lonely Instance Left Alone

Author:Asghar Ali Engineer

“The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.”

Needs Humans Children War Mother Passion Force Common Poverty Battle Survival Human Life Sickness Exploitation Callousness

Book:Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution

Source: Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution

“She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as a woman judge men, not on the strength of their arguments, and not in their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character, the intensity of their passion, their strength of soul, their compassion, and... ah, this above all... their conversation.”

Men Looks Soul Character Passion Force Compassion Judging Battle Conversation Argument Intensity Cleverness Prowess

Author:Orson Scott Card

“Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you. And look, you see how handsome and powerful I am? The son of a great man, the mother who gave me life-- A deathless goddess. But even for me, I tell you, Death and the strong force of fate are waiting. There will come a dawn or sunset or high noon When a man will take my life in battle too-- flinging a spear perhaps Or whipping a deadly arrow off his bow.”

“As I stood alone and forsaken, and the power of the sea and the battle of the elements reminded me of my own nothingness, and on the other hand, the sure flight of the birds recalled the words spoken by Christ: Not a sparrow shall fall on the ground without your Father: then, all at once, I felt how great and how small I was; then did those two mighty forces, pride and humility, happily unite in friendship.”

Two Hands Fall Father Force Felt Christ My Own Sea Humility Pride Battle Elements Bird Flight Nothingness Sparrows Forsaken Pride And Humility

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Beside, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of Nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.”

People Country Fighting Three Force Nations Causes Liberty Enemy Destiny Millions Revolution Holy Battle Raises Invincible American Revolution Raise Up

Author:Patrick Henry

“To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. It becomes easier to die and avoid conflict than to maintain a constant battle with the superior forces of maturity.”

Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“The phrase "It's absolutely the same with me, I..." seems to be an approving echo, a way of continuing the other's thought, but that is an illusion: in reality it is a brute revolt against a brutal violence, an effort to free our own ear from bondage and to occupy the enemy's ear by force. Because all of man's life among his kind is nothing other than a battle to seize the ear of others.”

Men Way Kind Reality Seems Force Effort Enemy Violence Battle Illusion Ears Phrases Brutal Continuing Echoes Bondage Brutes Revolt Approving

Author:Milan Kundera

“Yes...how else could Demandred explain the skill of the enemy general? Only a man with the experience of an ancient was so masterly at the dance of battlefields. At their core, many battle tactics were simple. Avoid being flanked, meet heavy force with pikes, infantry with a well-trained line, channelers with other channelers. And yet, the finesse of it...the little details...these took centuries to master. No man from this Age had lived long enough to learn the details with such care.”

Men Wells Littles Long Enough Care Age Force Lines Simple Enemy Century Masters Battle Skills Ancient Details Heavy Core Tactics Battlefields Infantry Finesse

Author:Robert Jordan

“In every well-written play the battle rages between the primary powers of Good and Evil, and it is this battle which constitutes the life impulse of the play, its driving force, and is basic to all plot structures...In any true piece of art...the beginning and the end are, or should be, polar in principle. All the main qualities of the first section should transform themselves into their opposites in the last section.”

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