User:Wolf, the Hunter/Quotes

This is my favorite quotes, either by myself, or people like Machiavelli, Nietzche....

Niccolo Machiavelli:
 "Before all else, be armed."

"War cannot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the other's advantage."

"Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared."

"It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope"

"Wise men say, and not without reason, that whoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past."

"Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved."

"Hence it comes about that all armed prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed prophets have been destroyed."

Friedrich Nietzche
 "Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

"In heaven all the interesting people are missing."

"In truth, there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross."

"Man is the cruelest animal."

"Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger."

Napoleon Bonaparte
 "A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets."

"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon."

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

"It is better to have a known enemy than a forced ally"

"Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them."

"In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!"

"There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind."

"Read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene and Frederic. ... This is the only way to become a great general and master the secrets of the art of war. ..."

""How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death."

Albert Einstein
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"I don't know with what weapons the 3rd world war will be fought, but i know that the 4th will be fought with clups and sticks"

"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge..."

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious."

"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value."

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler."

Sir Winston Churchill
 "However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."

"It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time."

"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."

"Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events."

"Speak in anger and you will deliver the greatest speech you will ever live to regret."

Various other authors
 "You don't win a battle by asking, "Will we win?" You win it by doing your best to win. " Richard M Stallman

Unknown author
 "It is not me who is mad. It is everyone else who is ignorant"

"Life sucks and then you die"

"I'm not afraid of death. I'm afraid of what happens after death."

"I'm not afraid of darkness. I'm afraid of what hides within it."