"In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance by compression, whereas an indirect approach loosens the defender's hold by upsetting his balance."

-- B. H. Liddell Hart

#War Quotes #Power Quotes #History Quotes

“I know their game. First, the traders and the missionaries: then the ambassadors: then the cannon. It's better to go straight to the cannon.”

Source : Quoted in Basil Davidson, Africa in Modern History: The Search for a New Society (1978)
“The smaller the government, the less the need to manipulate politicians.”
“Make all good men your well-wishers, and then, in the years' steady sifting, Some of them turn into friends. Friends are the sunshine of life.”

Source : John Hay (1913). “Poems”
“The future of life on earth depends on our ability to take action. Many individuals are doing what they can, but real success can only come if there's a change in our societies and our economics and in our politics. I've been lucky in my lifetime to see some of the greatest spectacles that the natural world has to offer. Surely we have a responsibility to leave for future generations a planet that is healthy, inhabitable by all species”

Source : Lance Secretan (2004). “Inspire! What Great Leaders Do”, p.93, John Wiley & Sons
“A learning experience for sure. You're always learning in this business. How to work with people and how to handle your band on a professional level. How to stick up for your band and do what you think is the right thing and to know when to let things happen against what you think is best. It's challenging but it's been a good thing for us, no doubt.”
“I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.”
“Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.”
“The best time to leave a party is when the partyâ€™s just beginning. Thereâ€™s no drink that kills except the drink that you didnâ€™t want to take, as the saying goes, and thereâ€™s no hour that kills except the hour you stayed after you wanted to go home.”

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