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“Anyway, just because you're sworn enemies doesn't mean you can't be friends, does it?”

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Air forces offered the possibility of striking a the enemy's economic and moral centres without having first to achieve 'the destruction of the enemy's main forces on the battlefield'. Air-power might attain a direct end by indirect means - hopping over opposition instead of overthrowing it.”

Firsts Mean Ends Might Force Moral Enemy Air Economic Achieve Military Possibility Direct Destruction Opposition Centre Battlefields Air Force Indirect Air Power Hopping

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.”

Men Mean Enemy He Man

Author:Democritus

“We are not in a position to criticize anyone. The existence of enemies means for us that our friendliness has not been sufficient enough.”

Mean Enough Existence Enemy Position Sufficient Criticize Friendliness

Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code of manners and a native cuisine. Both are apt to suffer when life is regarded as a means to something else. Efficiency and charm are mortal enemies, and Southern charm indubitably derives from a carelessness about the efficient aspects of life.”

“Never lose sight of this maxim, that you should establish your cantonments at the most distant and best protected point from the enemy, especially where a surprise is possible. By this means you will have time to unite all your forces before he can attack you.”

Should Mean War Force Loses Enemy Sight Surprise Protected Maxims

Book:Napoleon's Military Maxims

Source: Napoleon's Military Maxims

“The United States must not adopt the tactics of the enemy. Means are important, as ends. Crisis makes it tempting to ignore the wise restraints that make men free. But each time we do so, each time the means we use are wrong, our inner strength, the strength which makes us free, is lessened.”

Men Mean Important Ends States Use United Enemy United States Wise Crisis Inner Strength Restraint Tactics Tempting

Author:Frank Church

“Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the War; will be impressed by all the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit subjects for derision.”

“Any army which does not train to use all the weapons, all the means and methods of warfare that the enemy possesses, or may possess, is behaving in an unwise or even criminal manner. This applies to politics even more than it does to the art of war.”

May Mean Doe Art War Use Enemy Weapons Army Method Train Criminals Warfare Art Of War Unwise

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“In the anarchist milieu, communism, individualism, collectivism, mutualism and all the intermediate and eclectic programmes are simply the ways considered best for achieving freedom and solidarity in economic life; the ways believed to correspond more closely with justice and freedom for the distribution of the means of production and the products of labour among men. Bakunin was an anarchist, and he was a collectivist, an outspoken enemy of communism because he saw in it the negation of freedom and, therefore, of human dignity.”

Source: Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta

“To answer oppression with appropriate resistance requires knowledge of two kinds: in the first place, self-knowledge by the victim, which means awareness that oppression exists, an awareness that the victim has fallen from a great height of glory or promise into the present depths; secondly, the victim must know who the enemy is. He must know his oppressor's real name, not an alias, a pseudonym, or a nom de plume!”

Source: The Education of a British-Protected Child

“In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed. In this world irrationality clings to man like his shadow so that the right things get done for the wrong reasons - afterwards, we dredge up the right reasons for justification. It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral; a world where "reconciliation" means that when one side gets the power and the other side gets reconciled to it.”

“The laurels of victory are at the point of the enemy bayonets. They must be plucked there; they must be carried by a hand-to-hand fight if one really means to conquer.”

Ifs Mean Hands Fighting Enemy Victory Conquer Really Mean Laurels Bayonets

Author:Ferdinand Foch

“There is but one means to extenuate the effects of enemy fire: it is to develop a more violent fire oneself.”

Mean Enemy Fire Effects Oneself Violent

Book:The Principles of War

Source: The Principles of War