#warfare

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In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you fast.


Niccolò Machiavelli


#politics #strategy #warfare #science

If all the world were Christian, it might not matter if all the world were educated. But a cultural life will exist outside the Church whether it exists inside or not. Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.


C.S. Lewis


#engagement #philosophy #spiritual-warfare #education

In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise of profit operates like compound interest. Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price and lessening the sale of goods. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people.


Adam Smith


#class-warfare #economics #labor #money #profit

It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare.


Jane Goodall


#behavior #both #capable #certain #fascinating

Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. It is invincible, indestructible.


Giuseppe Mazzini


#bands #desirous #foreign #guerrilla #indestructible

But we must not, if we are loyal, disperse our energies in a partisan warfare that is waged without regard to its consequences to the well being, security, or honor of the country.


Bainbridge Colby


#consequences #country #disperse #energies #honor

All Welsh knew was that he was scared shitless, and at the same time was afflicted with a choking gorge of anger that any social coercion existed in the world which could force him to be here.


James Jones


#eddie-welsh #fear #social-coercion #warfare #anger

We must also recognize the new realities of modern warfare and the modern landscape of a battlefield.


Susan Davis


#battlefield #landscape #modern #modern warfare #must

The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself. They are in a lose/lose situation. If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot. So here is a dilemma which others have suffered before us, and for which as far as I can see there is simply no escape.


Martin Van Creveld


#fourth-generation-warfare #change

Why all this death? You might as easily ask ‘Why all this life?’.


Daniel McHugh


#fantasy #magic #warfare #wizards #death