Best knowing & war Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Each pursues his private interest and only his private interest; and thereby serves the private interests of all, the general interest, without willing it or knowing it. The real point is not that each individual's pursuit of his private interest promotes the totality of private interests, the general interest. One could just as well deduce from this abstract phrase that each individual reciprocally blocks the assertion of the others' interests, so that, instead of a general affirmation, this war of all against all produces a general negation.”

Wells War Real Individual Interest Knowing Produce Willing Pursuit Pursue Block Phrases Abstract Affirmation Assertion Totality Negation

Author:Karl Marx

“There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavour of life until he has known poverty, love and war. The justness of this reflection commends it to the lover of condensed philosophy. The three conditions embrace about all there is in life worth knowing. A surface thinker might deem that wealth should be added to the list. Not so. When a poor man finds a long-hidden quarter-dollar that has slipped through a rip into his vest lining, he sounds the pleasure of life with a deeper plummet than any millionaire can hope to cast.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)

“By day certainly the combatants have a clearer notion, though even then by no means of all that takes place, no one knowing much of anything that does not does not go on in his own immediate neighborhood; but in a night engagement ( and this was the only one that occurred between great armies during the war) how could anyone know anything for certain?”

Knows Mean Doe War Night Certain Knowing Goes On Army Notion Neighborhood Engagement Great Army

Book:The Landmark Thucydides

Source: The Landmark Thucydides

“Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service... We have no real way of knowing whether the kinds of training that teach men both courage and restraint would be adaptable to women or effective in a crisis. But the evidence of history and comparative studies of other species suggest that women as a fighting body might be far less amenable to the rules that prevent war from becoming a massacre and, with the use of modern weapons, that protect the survival of all humanity. That is what I meant by saying that women in combat might be too fierce.”

“War must never be a condition but, rather, a temporary scourge which we suffer as a child does a fever, knowing that health follows the long night of pain and that peace is health.”

Children Long Doe War Pain Night Suffering Knowing Conditions Temporary Fever Scourge Long Nights

Book:The Fall of Hyperion

Source: The Fall of Hyperion

“But the soul of Africa, its integrity, the slow inexorable pulse of its life, is its own and of such singular rhythm that no outsider, unless steeped from childhood in its endless, even beat, can ever hope to experience it, except only as a bystander might experience a Masai war dance knowing nothing of its music nor the meaning of its steps.”

War Soul Might Life Is Steps Knowing Childhood Integrity Beats Endless Rhythm Outsiders Pulse Inexorable Bystanders Knowing Nothing Masai

Book:West with the Night

Source: West with the Night

“Belief is self-knowing. Even Yoda out of Star Wars said, 'Do or do not. There is no try.'”

Trying Said War Self Belief Stars Knowing Self Knowing

Author:Gene Simmons

“Krys Lee has written a book of unforgettable stories, each one building on the other to create a complex, moving portrait of contemporary Korea and its diaspora. She guides us surely through the fallout of war, immigration, and financial crisis, always alert to the possibility of tenderness, transcendence, and even humor along the way. Lee is a writer who really understands loneliness, but her voice is so appealing, and her perceptions so wise, that we feel all the less lonely for knowing her characters and experiencing their lives.”

“... the next war will be a war in which people not armies will suffer, and our boasted, hard-earned civilization will do us no good. Cannot the women rise to this great opportunity and work now, and not have the double horror, if another war comes, of losing their loved ones, and knowing that they lifted no finger when they might have worked hard?”

People Ifs World War Hard Might Suffering Next Opportunity Knowing Civilization Horror Losing Army Fingers War Of The Worlds World War Ii Loved Ones World War I Great Opportunity

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“There is something in this native land business and you cannot get away from it, in peace time you do not seem to notice it much particularly when you live in foreign parts but when there is a war and you are all alone and completely cut off from knowing about your country well then there it is, your native land is your native land, it certainly is.”

Wells War Country Seems Knowing Cutting Land Native Get Away Homeland All Alone Native Land

Book:Wars I have seen

Source: Wars I have seen

“President Bush admitted that the United States went to war in Iraq based on bad intelligence. But he says knowing what we know now he would still do it again. So at least we're learning from our mistakes.”

Knows Stills War States President United Mistake United States Knowing Iraq President Bush Learning From Our Mistakes

Author:Jay Leno

“There is only one favorable moment in war; talent consists in knowing how to seize it.”

War Moments Knowing Talent

Book:Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

“Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.”

Littles Ideas War Knowing Too Much Military Soldier Knowing Too Much

Author:George S. Patton

“In death as in life, I defy the Jews who caused this last war [WW II], and I defy the powers of darkness which they represent. I am proud to die for my ideals, and I am sorry for the sons of Britain who have died without knowing why.”

War Lasts Dies Darkness Knowing Son Proud Ideals Died Sorry Jew Britain I Am Sorry Am Sorry

Author:William Joyce

“I have a fear of nuclear annihilation. I'm a child of the cold war: I didn't live more than 10 miles from a major WarPac nuclear target until the Berlin Wall came down and the CW ended. Knowing you can die horribly at any moment because of decisions made by alien intelligences thousands of miles away who don't even know you exist - there's something Lovecraftian about that, isn't there?”

Knows Children Made War Moments Dies Decision Knowing Wall Cold Majors Down And Nuclear Miles Aliens Target Cold War Berlin Annihilation Miles Away Decisions Made Berlin Wall

Author:Charles Stross

“Discipline, as understood by a warrior, is creative, open, and produces freedom. It is the ability to face the unknown, transforming the feeling of knowing into reverent astonishment; of considering things that exceed the scope of our habits, and daring to face the only war that is worthwhile: The battle for awareness.”

War Feelings Faces Ability Creative Knowing Awareness Produce Habit Discipline Battle Understood Warrior Worthwhile Daring Considering Scope Exceed Transforming Astonishment

Author:Carlos Castaneda

“We owe our troops the opportunity to serve in the best-planned, best-equipped, and best-led military force in the world, and we owe them the peace of mind that comes from knowing that they and their families will be taken care of if they sacrifice life, limb or the ability to sleep without war's nightmares. We owe them not just thanks and best wishes, but action, and action in our nation's capital.”

Ifs World Mind War Care Action Opportunity Force Nations Wish Sleep Ability Knowing Taken Sacrifice Military Thanks Nightmare Peace Of Mind Troops Limbs Our Troops Military Force Best Wishes

Author:John F. Kerry

“I feel like I partly came to writing through being in college during the start of the Iraq war, and knowing that those issues mattered lot to me, and wanting to go see for myself.”

Feels Writing War Knowing Issues College Iraq Iraq War

Author:Sarah Stillman

“But how can you understand a war without any knowledge of the society where it happens? It's like trying to understand birth without knowing anything about pregnancy or conception. Or like trying to understand our current economic collapse without knowing what a derivative is.”

Trying War Happens Knowing Economic Birth Currents Pregnancy Conception Collapse Derivatives Economic Collapse

Author:Annia Ciezadlo

“Mexico is sex and Canada is mind. There is much about Canada that I find admirable - the treatment of immigrants, for example, particularly those from Central America during the recent civil wars there. But there is confusion too: I know of Croatian Nazis who are subsidized by the Canadian government to maintain their racist culture. There is Canada, trying to sustain diversity without knowing exactly what it's doing.”

“I had an experience of knowing the Polish people when I was a child, and where my father worked many Poles came to work after the war. They were good people, and this has stayed in my heart.”

People Heart Children War Father Knowing My Heart Good People Polish

Author:Pope Francis

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