2,366 Quotes About Military
- Author Colonel Don Wilson
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While the study of war is both fascinating and necessary for preparedness, the actual fighting should be avoided where possible.
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- Author Sebastian Junger
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I came to think of it as a kind of zen practice: the Zen of not fucking up.
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- Author F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Two out of every three professional officers considered that wars were made for armies and not armies for wars.
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- Author Leo Tolstoy
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Военная служба вообще развращает людей, ставя поступающих в нее в условия совершенной праздности, то есть отсутствия разумного и полезного труда, и освобождая их от общих человеческих обязанностей, взамен которых выставляет только условную честь полка, мундира, знамени и, с одной стороны, безграничную власть над другими людьми, а с другой — рабскую покорность высшим себя начальникам.
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- Author Thomas Pynchon
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Got a hardon in my fist,Don't be pissed,Re-enlist--Snap--to, Slothrop!Jackson, I don't give a fuck,Just give me my "ruptured duck!"Snap--to, Slothrop!No one here can love or comprehend me,They just look for someplace else to send...me...Tap my head and mike my brain,Stick that needle in my vein,Slothrop, snap to!
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- Author Jeff Shaara quoting Colonel "Chesty" Puller
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All right. They’re on our left. They’re on our right. They’re in front of us, they’re behind us. They can’t get away this time’.
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- Author Ensan Case
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I've ever felt better in my life, Fred. Never.
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- Author Ensan Case
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I've never felt better in my life, Fred. Never.
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- Author Ann Medlock
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If you can't experience the humanity of people who don't look like you, you're not civilized enough to be an officer of the peace.
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