Quotes About Mercenaries

#1. Call them pros, call them mercenaries - but in fact they are just grown - up kids who have learned on the frozen creek or flooded corner lot that hockey is the greatest thrill of all.

Lester Patrick

#2. It is only mercenaries who expect to be paid by the day.

Teresa Of Avila

#3. An Emperor confides in national soldiers, not in mercenaries.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#4. We will push those crooks, those mercenaries back into the swamp.

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#5. Sacred Bands and elite squadrons aren't what the mercenaries' guild is about. Field them at your peril.

Janet Morris

#6. Thousands of mercenaries, who have trained in camps on the territory of Chechnya as well as come in from abroad, are actually preparing to impose extremist ideas on the whole world.

Boris Yeltsin

#7. We hear the term independent contractors in Iraq. Independent contractors? Mercenaries!

Studs Terkel

#8. There were a number of powerful factions within Adro: the Wings of Adom mercenaries, the royal cabal, the Mountainwatch, and the great noble families.

Brian McClellan

#9. Those who ran away are now outside the distant perimeter wall of the airport. Now they're outside the wall and the heroic Republican Guard is now in control of the whole area of Saddam International Airport. So where are those villainous louts, those mercenaries?

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#10. Commerce has changed the ethics of citizenship and the incentives for national service. America now buys private contractors - we used to call them mercenaries - to do the country's fighting.

Michael Ignatieff

#11. I can hardly thinke there was any scared into Heaven; they go the surest way to Heaven who would serve God without a Hell; other Mercenaries, that crouch unto Him in feare of Hell, though they terme themselves servants, are indeed but the slaves of the Almighty.

Thomas Browne

#12. A state that privatizes most of its functions will inevitably defend itself by employing its own people as mercenaries

Philip Bobbitt

#13. They opposed brute force to reason and philosophy, and battalions of foreign mercenaries to ideas. As if ideas were to be impaled on bayonets!

Rafael Sabatini

#14. Looters become looted, while time and tide make us mercenaries all.

Patrick Rothfuss

#15. I didn't know they'd do this to you. (Syd)
It's okay, Syd. Who could have imagined that a man who heads up a company of paid assassins and mercenaries would be psychotic? (Steele)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#16. Fate is a comfortable mistress, Wes, if you accept her demands." Fate, the mistress that four years ago had put him the hands of mercenaries who turned him over to the British to be tortured.
"Listen to the monk teaching me about mistresses." Wesley chuckled.

-Vitor & Wesley

Katharine Ashe

#17. the best leaders tend to be missionaries rather than mercenaries.

Alex Ferguson

#18. Missionaries have righteous goals and are trying to make the world a better place. Mercenaries are out for money and power and will run over anyone who gets in the way.

Brad Stone

#19. In the Bible, God uses brothel owners, pagan kings, murderers and mercenaries as instruments of good; at one point God even speaks to a guy named Balaam through his donkey.

Shane Claiborne

#20. My Vocabularies vary, its so exclusionary You'll find my baby pictures in modern dictionaries Next to mighty mercenaries, and visual visionaries

Andre Nickatina

#21. Government is a system of morality developed by philosophers and refined by mercenaries.

Alex Stein

#22. I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another bunch of mercenaries from west London.

John Cleese

#23. Good teams have a compelling product vision that they pursue with a missionary-like passion. Bad teams are mercenaries.

Jeff Patton

#24. The world's deadliest mercenaries choose to serve you, the whispers say, because they have yet to meet me.

Marie Lu

#25. Keep fighting, you daughters and sons of goats!" Birgitte yelled, loosing arrows at the mercenaries. "I might be dead, but I'm still your bloody commander, and you will obey orders!

Robert Jordan

#26. The doer and the thinker, no allowances for the other, as the failing light illuminates the mercenaries creed.

Jethro Tull

#27. Jane and Elizabeth tried to explain that all five of them were capable of fending for themselves; that they could make tolerable fortunes as bodyguards, assassins, or mercenaries if need be.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#28. These mercenaries, I swear by God, those who are still in Washington, they have sent their troops to be burned.

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#29. Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke, because there are too many mercenaries out there already.

Tommy Shaw

#30. Every predecessor has used mercenaries, often drawn from the country that they're attacking, like England ran India with Indian mercenaries. You take them from one place and send them to kill people in the other place. That's the standard way to run imperial wars.

Noam Chomsky

#31. In peace one is despoiled by the mercenaries, in war by one's enemies.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#32. Maxim 2:
A sergeant in motion outranks a lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on.
-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

Howard Tayler

#33. I am not talking about the American people and the British people, I am talking about those mercenaries ... They have started throwing those pencils, but they are not pencils, they are booby traps to kill the children.

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#34. You really want a company full of missionaries, not mercenaries.

Sam Altman

#35. These mercenaries and hirelings kidnapped civilians in the Al-Faw Peninsula so that they might claim that they captured Iraqi soldiers.

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#36. Kari laughed when she heard Meryn. "Now I that have minions and mercenaries, I can take over the world."
Aiden looked down at his mate, a terrified look on his face.

Alanea Alder

#37. I make no pretensions to 'objectivity,' a fraudulent concept in an era of industrialized and politicized science in which intellectual mercenaries too often serve power and greed, the ambitions of competing nation-states, or the requirements of commerce.

Hazel Henderson

#38. The Bird swooped down out of nowhere in 1976, stole the game of baseball away from the mercenaries, who considered it merely business, and gave it back to the fans.

Doug Wilson

#39. It's a violent galaxy filled with cutthroat pirates, cyber-mercenaries and star messiahs. If peace comes, it will have to steal in like a thief.

Mitch Michaelson

#40. Think for yourselves for a change. You've been pedlars: go and be merchants. You've been mercenaries: go and find something of your own to defend. You've finished teething and there's the world: crack it open if you can.

Dorothy Dunnett

#41. I don't believe in prolonging agonies," said Oser. "Rather than watch you enspell the rest of my fleet man by man - while I still possess a fleet to offer - I understand the Dendarii Mercenaries are looking for recruits." It

Lois McMaster Bujold

#42. Deveels are some of the meanest characters you'd ever not want to tangle with. They're some of the most feared and respected characters in the dimensions."
"Are they warriors? Mercenaries?"
Aahz shook his head.
"Worse!" he answered. "They're merchants.

Robert Asprin

#43. No political politicians on the board and stop sub-contracting anyway, which means getting out of Iraq. If anything needs to be policed, it needs to be done through a proper international body ... not through us sub-contracting teams of mercenaries.

Ken Loach

#44. That's how you tell a merc is dead; he just stops collecting paychecks.

Mercedes Lackey

#45. Please. Put the gun down and we'll talk. A beautiful woman holding a small cannon plays hell with my concentration. Christovao (Chris) Santos, Sanctuary

Sharon K. Garner

#46. Civilians who volunteer generally wish to escape, not to share, privatizations worse than their own.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#47. New orders: Make sure everybody who doesn't want to live here is aboard in five minutes. We are leaving.
-Captain Kevyn Andreyasn

Howard Tayler

#48. Speechless and very nearly panting, she fell back against the wall with a thump, knowing that if she lived to be ninety, she would still carry the searing mark of that kiss on her soul.
"At last," he murmured. "A way to shut you up." Christovao Santos (Chris), Sanctuary

Sharon K. Garner

#49. Oh, that's great. That way, when things have quieted down, and we come up for air, or money, or re-supply, we'll get a nice explosive package from him that says "so nice to see you again" in a way that only multi-megaton yields can.

Howard Tayler

#50. There are customers we serve, and customers we service.
-Captain Andreyasn

Howard Tayler