#warfare

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#feel #i #i feel #impelled #language

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#battlefield #job #leading #lieutenant #most

This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare. ↗

— James Forrestal

#cannot #country #deceptive #defensive #luxury

I hear all this, you know, 'Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.' No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own - nobody. ↗

— Elizabeth Warren

#class warfare #country #got #hear #his

In spiritual warfare, faith is the currency that releases your prayer. It is the instrument (or weapon, if you like) that activates and sets loose the answers to your prayers. ↗

— Pedro Okoro

#faith

It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#been #between #brain #brains #closest

I'm a bit of a hacker fanatic and know a fair bit about that industry and cyber crime and cyber warfare. ↗

— Seth Gordon

#bit #crime #cyber #fair #fanatic

The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11 only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#american #american media #betray #biological #chemical

We didn't do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare. ↗

— Alexander Haig

#among #anything #convince #country #devastated

[R]aging crime, class warfare, invasive immigrants, light morals, public misbehavior. Always we convince ourselves that the parade of unwelcome and despised is a new phenomenon, which is why the phrase "the good old days" has passed from cliché to self-parody. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#cliches #crime #exclusion #immigration #morals