Sun Bin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Deliberate tactical errors and minor losses are the means by which to bait the enemy.
-- Sun Bin

#War #Mean #Loss
On both difficult and easy terrain, you must know the 'tenable' and 'fatal' ground. Occupy tenable ground and attack on fatal ground.
-- Sun Bin

#War #Easy #Difficult
Greater powers and resources do not guarantee tactical superiority.
-- Sun Bin

#Guarantees #Resources #Superiority
For one who has really mastered the way of warfare, his enemy can do nothing to escape death.
-- Sun Bin

#Enemy #Warfare #Way
When conventional tactics are altered unexpectedly according to the situation, they take on the element of surprise and increase in strategic value .
-- Sun Bin

#Elements #Tactics #Surprise

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.
Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.
No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.
We're not going to survive in this world, temporally or spiritually, without increased faith in the Lord-and I don't mean a positive mental attitude-I mean downright solid faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the one thing that gives vitality and power to otherwise rather weak individuals.
Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.
Within a bony labrinthean cave, Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave, This sibyl, sweet, and Mystic Sense is found, Muse, that presides o'er all the Powers of Sound.
Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.
It must never be forgotten that nothing that is really great in this world has ever been achieved by coalitions, but that it has always been the success of a single victor. Coalition successes bear by the very nature of their origin the germ of future crumbling, in fact of the loss of what has already been achieved. Great, truly world-shaking revolutions of a spiritual nature are not even conceivable and realizable except as the titanic struggles of individual formations, never as enterprises of coalitions.
A single blow must destroy the enemy... without regard of losses... a gigantic all-destroying blow.

Sun Bin famous quotes

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