Top 100 B&h Quotes
#1. Anyone who (dis)likes G. W. Bush, but (dis)likes B. H. Obama, is either completely delusional or a complete idiot.
Michel Templet
#2. The higher level of grand strategy [is] that of conducting war with a far-sighted regard to the state of the peace that will follow.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#3. We are easily deceived about government because we are inclined to accept the following fallacies: (a) Anything legal is also moral. (b) We are not individually responsible for government action. (c) A different moral law applies to men in concert than it does when they act alone.
H. Verlan Andersen
#4. In a campaign against more than one state or army, it is more fruitful to concentrate first against the weaker partner than to attempt the overthrow of the stronger in the belief that the latter's defeat will automatically involve the collapse of the others.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#6. For even the best of peace training is more theoretical than practical experience ... indirect practical experience may be the more valuable because infinitely wider.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#7. Ensure that both plan and dispositions are flexible, adaptable to circumstances. Your plan should foresee and provide for a next step in case of success or failure.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#8. I used to think that the causes of war were predominantly economic. I came to think that they were more psychological. I am now coming to think that they are decisively "personal," arising from the defects and ambitions of those who have the power to influence the currents of nations.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#9. A story just isn't a story without a dragon.
H.B. Bolton
#10. I had no money to buy books, so between classes and work, I haunted the library. I even tutored in French with a sliding scale of payment: twenty dollars for an A, fifteen for a B, ten for a C, five for a D.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#11. The hydrogen bomb is not the answer to the Western peoples' dream of full and final insurance of their security ... While it has increased their striking power it has sharpened their anxiety and deepened their sense of insecurity.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#12. Blessed is the man [1] who a walks not in b the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in c the way of sinners, nor d sits in e the seat of f scoffers; 2 but his g delight is in the law [2] of the LORD, and on his h law he meditates day and night.
Anonymous
#13. Then I will pour out a spirit A, g of grace and prayer on the house of David and the residents of Jerusalem, and they will look at B Me whom they pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child and weep bitterly for Him as one weeps for a firstborn. h 11
Anonymous
#14. No man of action has more completely attained the point of view of the scientific historian, who observes the movements of mankind with the same detachment as a bacteriologist observes bacilli under a microscope and yet with a sympathy that springs from his own common manhood. In
B.H. Liddell Hart
#15. To ensure attaining an objective, one should have alternate objectives. An attack that converges on one point should threaten, and be able to diverge against another. Only by this flexibility of aim can strategy be attuned to the uncertainty of war.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#16. For Caesar met failure each time he relied on the direct, and retrieved it each time he resorted to the indirect.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#17. The Manifesto was a cowardly proceeding, the more I thought of it the less I liked it.
B. H. Roberts
#18. Epaminondas himself fell in the moment of victory, and in his death contributed not the least of his lessons to subsequent generations-by an exceptionally dramatic and convincing proof that an army and a state succumb quickest to paralysis of the brain.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#19. For there is nothing more intolerable to mankind than suspense; when a thing is once decided, men can but endure whatever out of the catalogue of evils it is their misfortune to undergo.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#20. We can bleed for days And not miss a beat. Girls are Supernatural.
H.B. Barstrum
#21. Direct pressure always tends to harden and consolidate the resistance of an opponent.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#22. There is no God but Allah Muhammad (p.b.u.h) is the Messenger of Allah
Irfan
#23. One word came to mind: pee-yew. Evan tried to place the odor; it wasn't a heap of decayed garbage or that of a spoiled fish. Truth be told, he smelled like rotten cheese.
H.B. Bolton
#24. Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#25. If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of loosening his resistance. It should, equally, be a principle of policy, especially in war, to provide your opponent with a ladder by which he can climb down.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#26. Inflict the least possible permanent injury, for the enemy of to-day is the customer of the morrow and the ally of the future
B.H. Liddell Hart
#28. No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#29. To foster the people's willing spirit is often as important as to possess the more concrete forms of power.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#30. For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#31. Our preaching is not the reason the Word works. The Word is the reason our preaching works.
H.B. Charles Jr.
#32. While hitting one must guard ... In order to hit with effect, the enemy must be taken off his guard.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#33. Loyalty is a noble quality, so long as it is not blind and does not exclude the higher loyalty to truth and decency.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#34. Life is a manifestation of the fundamental laws of physics, and in its highest form, life manifests the fundamental laws of physics as a human organism endowed with a capacity for moral judgement.
Joseph B.H. McMillan
#35. Keep strong, if possible. In any case, keep cool. Have unlimited patience. Never corner an opponent, and always assist him to save his face. Put yourself in his shoes - so as to see things through his eyes. Avoid self-righteousness like the devil - nothing is so self-blinding.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#36. Bold. Ruthless. Energy. Action. Tenacity. Hunger. That was what B-R-E-A-T-H was.
Karen Marie Moning
#37. Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
H.L. Mencken
#38. Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.
H.L. Mencken
#39. The military weapon is but one of the means that serve the purposes of war: one out of the assortment which grand strategy can employ.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#40. The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion in war.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#41. Little faith will bring your souls to heaven, but great faith will bring heaven to your souls. Charles H. Spurgeon
Lettie B. Cowman
#42. Books pull you to other worlds ... let them, and enjoy the adventure.
H.B. Bolton
#43. Dont Lie Ur Self, Atleast Be True To Ur Own Self.
B. H. Davda
#44. Treaties are often written in paper and ink. War, is carved by stone in blood.
B.H.
#45. Natural hazards, however formidable, are inherently less dangerous and less uncertain than fighting hazards. All conditions are more calculable, all obstacles more surmountable than those of human resistance.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#46. When lion saddled for hunt, he outfitted by bow and arrow to guard himself
H.B. Ida
#47. [The] aim is not so much to seek battle as to seek a strategic situation so advantageous that if it does not of itself produce the decision, its continuation by a battle is sure to achieve this. In other words, dislocation is the aim of strategy.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#48. I sank into a c. and passed an agitated h. over the b.
P.G. Wodehouse
#49. If there isn't some sort of rule about annoying kid brothers growing up to be walking, talking sex, there should be. ~Carly
H.B. Heinzer
#50. 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.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#51. The human quest for justice is an expression of the moral content of the fundamental laws of physics, which reveals itself in the search for a supreme law and a supreme lawmaker.
Joseph B.H. McMillan
#52. When Friedrich Nietzsche mocked Immanuel Kant for having "discovered a moral faculty in man", he inadvertently resolved Kant's dilemma of being unable to identify what exactly constituted his "moral law" for fear of offending against a charge of empiricism from the likes of David Hume.
Joseph B.H. McMillan
#54. Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon - and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological factors in war.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#55. SeLF censorsHIP?
Not my strong suit ... I dont want to be a total d o u c h e b a g , but a little bit of one.
Misha Collins
#56. I hate when I look in my closet and find clothes instead of Narnia.
H.B. Bolton
#57. But Polybius brought out the basic lesson in his reflection-'for as a ship, if you deprive it of its steersman, falls with all its crew into the hands of the enemy; so, with an army in war, if you outwit or out-manoeuvere its general, the whole will often fall into your hands'.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#58. A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#59. The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#60. A temple, first of all, is a place of
prayer; and prayer is communion with God. It is the 'infinite in man
seeking the infinite in God.' Where they find each other, there is holy
sanctuary
a temple.
B. H. Roberts
#61. In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare.
J.B. Priestley
#63. There is one man," the artist said after a moment. He'd paled. "H. F. Powell."
"Where would I find him?"
West didn't seem to hear him for a moment. He shook his head as if clearing away cobwebs from his brain. "Find him?" His laugh was more of a grunt. "Six feet under, last I checked.
B. J. Daniels
#64. In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance by compression, whereas an indirect approach loosens the defender's hold by upsetting his balance.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#65. Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#67. The statesman will soon find himself thwarted in some way or other, will deduce from this opposition a menace first to his plans, then to national prestige, and finally to the existence of the state itself - and so, regarding his country as the party attacked, will engage in a war of defence.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#68. We must face the fact that international relations are governed by interests and not by moral principles.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#69. The principle of freedom is the fundamental principle of morality and the objective of justice.
Joseph B.H. McMillan
#70. It would seem that Caesar's recurrent and deep-rooted fault was his concentration in pursuing the objective immediately in front of his eyes to the neglect of his wider object. Strategically he was an alternating Jekyll and Hyde.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#71. Groans that words cannot express" (Rom. 8:26) are often prayers that God cannot refuse. Charles H. Spurgeon
Lettie B. Cowman
#72. Beneath her feet she could feel the cool blades of grass and her arms were wrapped around her chest. The breeze was becoming stronger and stronger, which
H.B. Rae
#73. An army should always be so distributed that its parts can aid each other and combine to produce the maximum possible concentration of force at one place, while the minimum force necessary is used elsewhere to prepare the success of the concentration.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#74. In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#75. The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#76. The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#77. But Quebec is an illuminating example of the truth that a decision is produced even more by the mental and moral dislocation of the command than by the physical dislocation of its forces.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#79. In the case of a state that is seeking not conquest but the maintenance of its security, the aim is fulfilled if the threat is removed - if the enemy is led to abandon his purpose.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#80. I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.
J. Courtney Sullivan
#81. The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#82. The more usual reason for adopting a strategy of limited aim is that of awaiting a change in the balance of force ... The essential condition of such a strategy is that the drain on him should be disproportionately greater than on oneself.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#83. This high proportion of history's decisive campaigns, the significance of which is enhanced by the comparative rarity of the direct approach, enforces the conclusion that the indirect is by far the most hopeful and economic form of strategy.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#84. For the spread and endurance of an idea the originator is dependent on the self-development of the receivers and transmitters.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#85. Evan ran his finger across the faded leather spines. He laughed at how silly some of the names were: Paint Your Roses Red, Edelweiss and Me, World of Mushrooms and Fungi, The Toadstool Diaries, Daffodils Unseen and Exotic Plants Unleashed, to name but a few.
H.B. Bolton
#87. While the nominal strength of a country is represented by its numbers and resources, this muscular development is dependent on the state of its internal organs and nerve-system - upon its stability of control, morale, and supply.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#88. The H-bomb rather favors small nations that doesn't as yet possess it; they feel slightly more free to jostle other nations, having discovered that a country can stick its tongue out quite far these days without provoking war, so horrible are war's consequences.
E.B. White
#89. It is thus more potent, as well as more economical, to disarm the enemy than to attempt his destruction by hard fighting ... A strategist should think in terms of paralysing, not of killing.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#91. That's the point. Blood is the point.
B-L-O-O-D I-S T-H-E P-O-I-N-T
If I could bleed out the Crapper into the ring, I'd do it.
If I could bleed out everything that's wrong with my life, I'd bleed until I was empty
A.S. King
#92. [T]he kingdom of God ... is to be a political institution that shall hold sway over all the earth; to which all other governments will be subordinate and by which they will be dominated.
B. H. Roberts
#93. One direct approach had, by its vain cost, done much to undo the aggregate advantage which indirect approaches alone had built up. And it is not the least significant feature that the issue was finally settled, in the reverse way, by yet another example of the indirect approach.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#95. War is always a matter of doing evil in the hope that good may come of it.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#96. The historian's rightful task is to distil experience as a medicinal warning for the future generations, not to distil a drug.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#97. The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge hammer to ward off a swarm of mosquitoes.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#98. She was standing in the airport of Copenhagen, staring at a doorway, trying to figure out if it was (a) a bathroom and (b) what kind of bathroom it was. The door merely said H.
Was she an H? Was H "hers"? It could just as easily be "his". Or "Helicopter Room: Not a Bathroom at All
Maureen Johnson
#99. While there are many causes for which a state goes to war, its fundamental object can be epitomized as that of ensuring the continuance of its policy - in face of the determination of the opposing state to pursue a contrary policy. In the human will lies the source and mainspring of conflict.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#100. As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.
B.H. Liddell Hart
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