Guerrilla Warfare Quotes

“World War 3 is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.”
― Marshall McLuhan

“Do you know what guerrillas often say? They claim that their rebellions are invulnerable to economic warfare because they have no economy, that they are parasitic on those they would overthrow. The fools merely fail to access the coin in which they must inevitably pay. The pattern is inexorable in its degenerative failures. You see it repeated in the systems of slavery, of welfare states, of caste-ridden religions, of socializing bureaucracies -- in any system in which creates and maintains dependencies. Too long a parasite and you cannot exist without a host.”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

“Penyelamatan tahanan terus berlangsung: tim palang merah internasional kemudian datang dan semua tahanan segera akan diterbangkan ke Eropa. Negiri ini bagaimanapun tak cukup aman bagi orang-orang sipil, apalagi setelah selama tiga tahun di dalam tahanan. Orang-orang pribumi telah memerdekakan diri, dan milisi-milisi bersenjata berdiri di mana-mana.....Perang belum berakhir, bahkan baru dimulai, dan dinamakan oleh orang pribumi sebagai perang revolusi.”
― Eka Kurniawan, Beauty Is a Wound

“A horsefly can't do a horse much damage, but it can drive it wild anyway.”
― Harry Turtledove, The United States of Atlantis

“[These]were the legitimate acts of self-defense which had been forced upon the Irish people by English aggression... We did not initiate the war, nor were we allowed to choose the battleground.”
― Michael Collins

“Life is a war. Guerrilla warfare, the strategy”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“When fate and love come into conflict, the former must always win; for love will fade if it rests upon indignity or abdication.”
― Jorge G. Castañeda, Compañero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara

“In countries in which violent insurgencies have been victorious, we find, however that the country is much less likely to become a peaceful democracy after the conflict has ended. On the other hand, in analogous countries where mass, nonviolent campaigns have occurred, we see a much higher rate of postconflict democracies and a much lower rate of relapse into civil war. This does not mean that there will not be any sharp political contention or democratic backsliding following a successful nonviolent transition. But it does mean that political contention is more likely to transpire through nonviolent channels.

Some may cite the American Revolution against the British as a counterexample to the above assertion. It should be remembered, however, that the armed insurgency against British forces, notably in the form of guerrilla warfare, was preceded by a decade of parallel institution building, nonviolent boycotts, civil disobedience, noncooperation, and other nation-building methods.”
― Erica Chenoweth;Maria J. Stephan, Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict

“Where an open war is impossible, oppression can continue quietly behind the scenes. Terrorism. Guerrilla warfare, violence, prisons, concentration camps. I ask you: Is this peace?

The true antipode of peace is violence. And those who want peace in the world should remove not only war from the world but also violence. If there is no open war but there is still violence, that is not peace.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Warning to the West

“I've made two mistakes, gentlemen. I've confided in a woman and I've slept in a bed.”
― Jean Lartéguy, The Centurions

“One day, I was on the front lawn of the property and aimed the gun at a sparrow perched high in a tree. Hazel Goldreich, Arthur's wife, was watching me and jokingly remarked that I would never hit the target. But she had hardly finished the sentence when the sparrow fell to the ground. I turned to her and was about to boast, when the Goldreichs' son Paul, then about five years old, turned to me with tears in his eyes and said, "David, why did you kill that bird? Its mother will be sad." My mood immediately shifted from one of pride to shame; I felt that this small boy had far more humanity than I did. It was an odd sensation for a man who was the leader of a nascent guerrilla army.”
― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“But the heart weakens without democracy, and there was no democracy within the Tigers. They antagonized their own brothers by killing them.”
― Samanth Subramanian, This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War

“Expropriations are armed operations and a guerrilla tactic carried out to finance, support and advance the movement towards revolution.”
― Carlos Marighella, Mini-Manual of the Urban Guerilla