Quotes About Battles And Wars

#1. Scheduling flexibility is the single greatest non-financial tool
and the number-one dream-job factor
at your disposal for winning battles in the talent wars. Use it.

Bruce Tulgan

#2. Do you think that they, with their Battles, Famine, Black Death and Serfdom, were less enlightened than we are, with our Wars, Blockade, Influenza, and Conscription.

T.H. White

#3. We often don't think of them, we think of the great wars and the great battles, but what about losing a son or a daughter, or a girl losing her husband or vice versa? I think of the people who never got the chance to have the opportunities I had.

Tony Curtis

#4. A rare objectivity and insight can be imparted regarding this world's struggle for spiritual integrity. In the land of Faerie, the reader may see his small battles writ large in the wars of titans or elves and understand for the first time, his own worth.

Michael D. O'Brien

#5. Peace is something very dear. If you've been through wars and operations and battles, you want peace.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#6. In the long run all battles are lost, and so are all wars.

H.L. Mencken

#7. Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates.

F. E. Adcock

#8. The way to win battles, wars and games is by attacking and overrunning the opposing side.

Alex Ferguson

#9. Organized religion is good for wars, battles, pissin' and moanin' and not much else.

Ted Nugent

#10. When deliberating, think in campaigns and not battles; in wars and not
campaigns; in ultimate conquest and not wars.

Steven Pressfield

#11. I remember friends from wars all but we forgot.
All of them distilled into each wound we caught.
Those wounds are all painful places where we fought.
Battles never left behind, ones we never sought.
What is it that we spent and what was it we bought?

Frank Herbert

#12. Don't be a patron of disbelief; nobody fights and wins battles in the hand gloves of doubts.

Israelmore Ayivor

#13. Nobody wins wars. Generals plan battles to be swift and decisive. When they are not, the aim is to end the conflict less defeated than your opponent.

Steph Bennion

#14. In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V, which relied on a chorus to explain in words the battles of Harfleur and Agincourt that could never be captured on the Elizabethan stage.

Ian Doescher

#15. In the history of battles and wars, the massacres of civilians were the main reason of revolutions success.

M.F. Moonzajer

#16. It is a fact that under equal conditions, large-scale battles and whole wars are won by troops which have a strong will for victory, clear goals before them, high moral standards, and devotion to the banner under which they go into battle.

Georgy Zhukov

#17. Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

Plato

#18. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose - especially their lives.

Eugene V. Debs

#19. Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.

Socrates

#20. I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for
so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house?

Ursula K. Le Guin

#21. You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#22. This was not, of course, the first time that significant monies were spent on military programs. Kennedy knew, if only implicitly, that while bravery may win battles, science and technology provide security. Science and technology win wars.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#23. When people send people on summer camps or bonding trips, they send them to do things like high rope climbing or extraordinary things. And when you do extraordinary things with people, like fighting battles or simulating huge wars, you do bond very quickly.

Anna Popplewell

#24. Fights were recounted, battles won amid wars sure to be lost; hope was clung to; families were both celebrated and denounced;

John Green

#25. Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.

John Steinbeck

#26. The battles after the wars are over can be the toughest; there's no longer the public interest that accompanies, for good and for ill, the start of combat.

Nancy Gibbs

#27. Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder. ... And that is war in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.

Oliver Stone

#28. People in America get up and go to their nine-to-five jobs every day and are oblivious to all these battles and wars and people dying every minute all over the world. This is life. This is how other countries live. This is a daily occurrence in some places.

Mitchell Zuckoff

#29. All the battles and wars I been through, and all the battle scars I got it's been a learning experience. Everything I been through made me the man I am so if it was different I would be different so I would say that I really learned something from every situation.

Kurupt

#30. If it has to be that wars and battles are begun for many reasons and quarrels, then they should also be avoided and shunned by better and more valid reasons ...

Christine De Pizan

#31. I was reminded as I was reviewing my life, that I have been in too many conflicts, too many wars, political battles, military battles, civil strifes in government. And always one lesson stands out and that is, those whom you fight most passionately often turn out to be your best friends.

Ferdinand Marcos

#32. It is unfortunately true that our generation and that of your parents have left you with a big mess that will now be yours to clean up: wars, budget challenges, pollution, global warming, battles of health care, natural disasters. They're all there for you. We're willing those to you. Are you ready?

John Morgridge

#33. There is no brutality and cruelty in battles and wars; in reality only the outcome matters.

M.F. Moonzajer

#34. Most wars start because someone makes a mistake, and most battles are lost by the losing side rather than won by the victors. I'm not sure if that makes things better or worse. I suppose it depends on which you disapprove of more, malice or stupidity.

K.J. Parker