1,797 Quotes About Battle

Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.

The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.

A battle is won by the side that is absolutely determined to win. Why did we lose the battle of Austerlitz? Our casualties were about the same as those of the French, but we had told ourselves early in the day that the battle was lost, so it was lost.

You cannot choose your battlefield,God does that for you;But you can plant a standardWhere a standard never flew.(From The Colors)

Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to preserve one's homeland

To live is - to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind

Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead.

To us, it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other because Napoleon was ambitious or Alexander was firm, or because England's policy was astute or the Duke of Oldenburg was wronged. We cannot grasp what connection such circumstances have the with the actual fact of slaughter and violence: why because the Duke was wronged, thousands of men from the other side of Europe killed and ruined the people of Smolensk and Moscow and were killed by them.

Insurgence and all forms of evil in a society doesn't describes her as a failure, but vividly shows a lack of love for one another.