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“Chilvalry's essential function, Maurice Keen has written, is always to hold up an idealised image of armed conflict in defiance of the harsh realities of actual warfare. By definition, chivalry also reaffirms the paramount importance of custom, hierarchy and inherited rank.”

Reality Written Conflict Essentials Function Importance Definitions Customs Warfare Harsh Hierarchy Defiance Chivalry Paramount British History Harsh Reality Armed Conflict

Author:Linda Colley

“The saddest symptom about many so-called Christians is the utter absence of anything like conflict and fight against spiritual apathy in their Christianity. They eat, they drink, they dress, they work, they amuse themselves, they get money, they spend money, they go through a brief round of formal religious services once or twice every week. But of the great spiritual warfare - its watchings and strugglings, its agonies and anxieties, its battles and contests - of all things they appear to know nothing at all. Let us take care that this case is not our own.”

“Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups or between groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to be run. If you look back, you will see that warfare was an invention, just as ways of handling government or taxes are inventions. You will see, too, that once people use an invention they go on using it until they find another which they think is superior.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Firsts Looks Different War Use Problem Government Running Views Groups Goes On Conflict Taxes Method Invention Superiors Warfare Different Views

Book:PEOPLE AND PLACES

Source: PEOPLE AND PLACES

“Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time.”

Needs Long War Lasts Worry Middle Conflict Long Time Bases Historical Iraq East Sand Vietnam Middle East Warfare Jungle Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis Kuwait Middle East Conflict

Author:Dan Quayle

“In industrialized warfare, where the representation of events outstripped the presentation of facts, the image was starting to gain sway over the object, time over space. Soon a conflict of strategic and political interpretation would ensue, with radio and then radar completing the picture.”

Facts Political Space Events Objects Conflict Gains Starting Radio Interpretation Warfare Representation Strategic Presentation Radar Completing

Author:Paul Virilio

“Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.”

Firsts Different Problem Running Views Groups Conflict Method Warfare Different Views

Book:PEOPLE AND PLACES

Source: PEOPLE AND PLACES

“Only those who are spiritual perceive the reality of the spiritual foe and hence engage in battle. Such warfare is not fought with arms of the flesh. Because the conflict is spiritual so must the weapons.”

Reality Spiritual Prayer Arms Battle Conflict Weapons Flesh Perceive Warfare Foe

Book:Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons

Source: Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons

“To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual. Life in the spirit is a suffering way, filled with watching and laboring, burdened by weariness and trial, punctuated by heartbreak and conflict. It is a life utterly outpoured for the kingdom of God and lived in complete disregard for one's personal happiness.”

Way Spiritual Life Is Spirit Suffering Prayer Conflict Filled Trials Kingdoms Remove Spiritual Life Warfare Kingdom Of God Disregard Weariness Personal Happiness

Book:The Spiritual Man

Source: The Spiritual Man

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”

“There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon roaring, before there can be peaceful treaties and enthusiastic shaking of hands.”

Hands Battle Conflict Brave Peaceful Warfare Reconciliation Enthusiastic Shaking Treaties Roaring Cannons Boisterous

Book:Murder by gaslight: Victorian tales

Source: Murder by gaslight: Victorian tales