Detachments Quotes

#1. It is, of course, extremely interesting to look back across the years questioningly, wonderingly, objectively, without detachments, though seeing "objectively" does not necessarily imply seeing truthfully.

Algernon Blackwood

#2. Looting is a natural response to the unnatural and inhuman society of commodity abundance. It instantly undermines the commodity as such, and it also exposes what the commodity ultimately implies: the army, the police and the other specialized detachments of the state's monopoly of armed violence.

Guy Debord

#3. There's a Legion that never was 'listed, That carries no colours or crest, But, split in a thousand detachments, Is breaking the road for the rest.

Rudyard Kipling

#4. As in 1914, the government mounted an extraordinary campaign to help. Winegrowers were granted delays in being called to active duty, military labor detachments were sent to the vineyards and farm horses of small growers were not to be requisitioned until the harvest was completed.

Don Kladstrup

#5. If God is always on the side of the big battalions as Voltaire says, then, let us not waste our time with little detachments!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. Our detachments move us toward freedom and death.

Mason Cooley

#7. All your stress, pain, suffering, misery is due to your attachment with it. If you don't attach with the things, that doesn't serve you, either in your internal or external life, slowly those things lose grip on you, and you release yourself from it forever.

Roshan Sharma

#8. A tall, straight-bodied, and by no means ill-favored young Highlander at close range is breath-taking.

Diana Gabaldon

#9. Quitting is not an option. I will not let anyone on this team quit.

Herman Edwards

#10. [G]ive nothing centrality, because writing is about continually shifting weight from one thing and moment to the other.

Amit Chaudhuri

#11. Love forces, at last, this humility: you cannot love if you cannot be loved, you cannot see if you cannot be seen.

James Baldwin

#12. In the earliest cultures any tie between the dancers is slight. In a higher level the choral dancers almost always touch one another and thus force themselves into the same stride and the same movement. The closer the contact, the stronger is the social character of the choral.

Curt Sachs