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    Malcolm X
    “Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.”
    ― Malcom X
    tags: armed-struggle, arms, pacifism, peace, revolution, violence, war
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    Sun Tzu
    “Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: business, strategy, war
    1955 likes

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    Sun Tzu
    “Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: politics, success, war
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    Sun Tzu
    “All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.”
    ― Sun tzu, The Art of War
    tags: deception, strategy, tactics, war, warfare
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: military, social-change, war
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: patriotism, war
    744 likes

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    Howard Zinn
    “How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?”
    ― Howard Zinn
    tags: blowback, propaganda, terrorism, war
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    Pierce Brown
    “You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.”
    ― Pierce Brown, Red Rising
    tags: darrow, helldiver, leader, pierce-brown, red-rising, war
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “In times of war, the law falls silent.

    Silent enim leges inter arma”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: freedom, human-rights, law, war
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    Gaius Julius Caesar
    “Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.)”
    ― Julius Caesar
    tags: conqueror, imperialism, rome, war
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: war
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    George S. Patton Jr.
    “Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”
    ― George S. Patton
    tags: leadership
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    George S. Patton Jr.
    “May God have mercy for my enemies because I won't.”
    ― George S. Patton Jr.
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    George S. Patton Jr.
    “No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country.”
    ― George S. Patton Jr.
    tags: humor
    296 likes

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    George S. Patton Jr.
    “Better to fight for something than live for nothing.”
    ― George S. Patton
    tags: ideals
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    George S. Patton Jr.
    “The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country”
    ― George S. Patton Jr.
    tags: air-force, army, country, marines, military, navy, patriotism, service, soldiers
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    George S. Patton Jr.
    “A man must know his destiny… if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, twice, or at the very most, three times, fate will reach out and tap a man on the shoulder… if he has the imagination, he will turn around and fate will point out to him what fork in the road he should take, if he has the guts, he will take it.”
    ― George S. Patton Jr.
    tags: generals, wwii
    133 likes

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    George S. Patton Jr.
    “When in doubt, ATTACK!”
    ― George S. Patton
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    George S. Patton Jr.
    “Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.”
    ― George S. Patton Jr.
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    George S. Patton Jr.
    “To be a successful soldier, you must know history.”
    ― George S. Patton Jr.
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    George S. Patton Jr.
    “Never draw a gun on a man unless you intend to kill him. And believe me, if you do intend to kill him he will already know it. Then he will feel the cold breath of the tomb.”
    ― George S. Patton Jr.
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    George S. Patton Jr.
    “There are three ways that men get what they want: by planning, by working, and by praying. Any great military operation takes careful planning or thinking. Then you must have well trained troops to carry it out: that's working. But between the plan and the operation there is always an unknown. That unknown spells defeat or victory; success or failure. It is the reaction of the actors to the ordeal when it actually comes. Some people call that getting the breaks. I call it God. God has His part or margin in everything. That's where prayer comes in.”
    ― George S. Patton
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    George S. Patton Jr.
    “You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things. Brave undisciplined men have no chance against the discipline and valour of other men. Have you seen a few policemen handle a crowd?”
    ― George S. Patton Jr.
    tags: patriotic
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    George S. Patton Jr.
    “A man is not measured by how much he can take and stand but by how fast he regains once fallen.”
    ― George S. Patton Jr.
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    George S. Patton Jr.
    “Coward: someone who in a bad situation thinks with his feet”
    ― George S. Patton Jr.
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    George S. Patton Jr.
    “Take not counsel of your fears”
    ― George S. Patton Jr.
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    George S. Patton Jr.
    “Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.”
    ― George S. Patton
    tags: history, history-repeating-itself
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    George S. Patton Jr.
    “I am convinced that much more emphasis should be placed on history. The purpose of history is to learn how human beings react when exposed to the danger of wounds or death...”
    ― George S. Patton Jr.
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: war
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    Bertolt Brecht
    “The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
    When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out "stop!"

    When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.”
    ― Bertolt Brecht, Selected Poems: The Influential 20th Century German Poet's Accessible Bilingual Collection for Modern Readers
    tags: genocide, numbness, war
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