Combat Quotes

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce. (Margaret Mead)
Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth. View quote
Phyllis Schlafly
We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable. View quote
Henry Adams
The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in combat. View quote
Richard Marcinko
The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth. View quote
William O. Douglas
These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution. View quote
Johan Huizinga
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The life of the individual is a continuous combat with errors and obstacles, and no victory is more satisfying than the one achieved against opposition. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me. View quote
Ahmed Ben Bella
The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they're protecting us. View quote
Tom Clancy
Our Party's Songun-based revolutionary leadership, Songun-based politics, is a revolutionary mode of leadership and socialist mode of politics that gives top priority to military affairs, and defends the country, the revolution and socialism and dynamically pushes ahead with overall socialist construction by dint of the revolutionary mettle and combat capabilities of the People's Army. (Kim Jong-il)
If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Most of these who are thrust into combat soon find it impossible to maintain the mythic perception of war. View quote
Chris Hedges
Female animals defending their young are notoriously ferocious and lack the playful delight in combat which characterizes the mock combats of males of the same species. There seems very little ground for claiming that the mother of young children is more peaceful, more responsible, and more thoughtful for the welfare of the human race than is her husband or brother. View quote
Margaret Mead
Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service, [...] We have no real way of knowing whether the kinds of training that teach men both courage and restraint would be adaptable to women or effective in a crisis. But the evidence of history and comparative studies of other species suggest that women as a fighting body might be far less amenable to the rules that prevent war from becoming a massacre and, with the use of modern weapons, that protect the survival of all humanity. That is what I meant by saying that women in combat might be too fierce. View quote
Margaret Mead
All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters, either. Every single man in this Army plays a vital role. Don't ever let up. Don't ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain. View quote
George S. Patton
once you laugh at you own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Mabye........ combat some the ugliness in the world. View quote
Goldie Hawn
In all forms of strategy, it is necessary to maintain the combat stance in everyday life and to make your everyday stance your combat stance. You must research this well. View quote
Miyamoto Musashi
Not until all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son. View quote
Camille Paglia
I opposed the war in Iraq because I did not believe it was in our national security interest, and I still don't. What we did was akin to taking a baseball bat to a beehive. Our primary security threat right now is terrorism ---and by doing what we did in Iraq, we've managed to alienate a good part of the world and most of the allies whose intelligence and other help we need to combat and defeat terrorism. View quote
Jerry Springer
Engage in combat fully determined to die and you will be alive; wish to survive in the battle and you will surely meet death. (Uesugi Kenshin)
The Communist Party and the Soviet Government display constant concern to strengthen the country's defensive might and raise the combat readiness of the Armed Forces. View quote
Andrei Grechko
He discusses his service in Iraq, the wounds he suffered there, and he says to me in this ad, "Until you have the guts to call me a 'phony soldier' to my face, stop telling lies about my service." You know, this is such a blatant use of a valiant combat veteran, lying to him about what I said, then strapping those lies to his belt, sending him out via the media in a TV ad to walk into as many people as he can walk into. View quote
Rush Limbaugh
Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence. Legitimate self-confidence is a winner. The true test of self-confidence is the courage to be open-to welcome change and new ideas regardless of their source. Self-confident people aren't afraid to have their views challenged. They relish the intellectual combat that enriches ideas. View quote
Jack Welch
Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest. View quote
Michel de Montaigne