Military Terms Quotes

#1. A political problem thought of in military terms eventually becomes a military problem.

George C. Marshall

#2. People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it's more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.

Banksy

#3. Military intervention to maintain the global status quo will become a constant feature of international relations, whether this is justified in terms of fighting drugs, fighting terrorism, containing 'rogue states', opposing 'Islamic fundamentalism', or containing China.

Walden Bello

#4. We're so used to using military terminology in civilian speech that we forget those terms might mean something very specific.

Phil Klay

#5. Some of the American military obviously were thinking in terms of fighting a nuclear war. I was opposed to that.

Helmut Schmidt

#6. The radio comes back even louder than you remember it.

Stephen Chbosky

#7. European countries need to make more of a contribution in terms of defence capabilities. It is not fair?to keep turning to our ally in the United States to contribute military forces to problems which involve our own security.

Geoff Hoon

#8. 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

#9. Without love, we are birds with broken wings

Mitch Albom

#10. I want the government to provide the military so we don't get invaded by somebody and destroyed. I want the government to provide the roads so I can get from point A to B. In terms of taking care of my day to day needs, I want to do that myself. I want my community to do that.

Ben Carson

#11. I don't mind my eyebrows. They add ... something to me. I wouldn't say they were my best feature, though. People tell me they like my eyes. They distract from the eyebrows.

Nicholas Hoult

#12. Air power is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms.

Winston Churchill

#13. A woman can look powerful in a party, but when she arrives at home, all she wants is to feel comfortable.

Gisele Bundchen

#14. The United States has been ambiguous on the current situation in Nepal. They have not actually come out very strongly in terms of pushing the king to take measures on the detentions or abuses by the army. China continues to provide military equipment.

Irene Khan

#15. Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Hippocrates

#16. The Air Force has it far worse than the Navy in terms of existential fears, primarily due to the rapid rise and unbelievable dissemination of drones, where seemingly now every military unit has their own miniature air wing of what would have recently passed as toys.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

#17. We're at a real time of transition here in terms of future aviation. What's going to be manned? What's going to be unmanned? There are those who see [the JSF] as the last manned fighter/bomber. And I'm one that's inclined to believe it-whether it's right or not.

Michael Mullen

#18. I've worked in a few sort of 'institutional' theaters - the Royal Shakespeare, the National Theater in England - and they're hopelessly top-heavy with bureaucracy.

Tim Curry

#19. Like the time I threw out Pete Murphy of Bauhaus for saying those six immortal words to Slim when he'd forgotten his backstage pass: 'Don't you know who I am?'
'Ha, ha, yeah, I do,' I said, 'You're out, arsehole'.

Peter Hook

#20. God is trying to call us back to that for which He created us, to worship Him and to enjoy Him forever

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#21. Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets.

Wilferd Peterson

#22. Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power.

Jon Meacham

#23. Bin Laden is remarkably eager for Americans to know why he doesn't like us, what he intends to do about it and then following up and doing something about it in terms of military actions.

Michael Scheuer

#24. We should never allow computers to make inherently governmental decisions in terms of the application of military force, even if that's happening on the internet.

Edward Snowden

#25. Home is the place I can live with myself, without hating myself.

Peggy Lampman

#26. We've evolved a lot since 9/11 also, in terms of our law enforcement capabilities, our intelligence capabilities, military, counterterrorism.

Barack Obama

#27. But Moominmamma was quite unperturbed.
"Well, well!" she said, "it seems to me that our guests are having a very good time."
"I hope so," replied Moominpappa. "Pass me a banana, please dear.

Tove Jansson

#28. Normally, what happens when we have a national leader who wants to do something in terms of military intervention, he tells the Pentagon, put together some options to accomplish goal.

Jack Keane

#29. Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

Groucho Marx

#30. You always think another time would have been ideal for you ... the reality is there was no novocaine when you went to the dentist.

Woody Allen

#31. People in uniform are not sacrosanct. They don't have all the answers. The use of force is a political decision at its core, in terms of its objectives; then the military, as the experts, must be brought in to tell you how to do it.

Richard Holbrooke

#32. But in terms of Saddam Hussein being there, let's remember that his country is divided, in effect. He does not control the northern part of his country. We are able to keep arms from him. His military forces have not been rebuilt.

Condoleezza Rice

#33. The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.

Herbert Read

#34. I don't watch myself on TV, I don't read the news clippings about me, so when people come up and say, 'What about that story last week?' I go, 'I didn't even know there was.'

Jay Kay