Vo Nguyen Giap famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.
Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.
Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.
It doesn't have to be the Grand Canyon, it could be a city street, it could be the face of another human being - Everything is full of wonder.
War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.
Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.
Defeat is not worth thinking about.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

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