"Suppose we were (as we might be) an influence, an idea, a thing intangible, invulnerable, without front or back, drifting about like a gas? Armies were like plants, immobile, firm-rooted, nourished through long stems to the head. We might be a vapour, blowing where we listed Ours should be a war of detachment. We were to contain the enemy by the silent threat of a vast, unknown desert"

-- T. E. Lawrence

#War Quotes #Army Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“I have tremendous confidence in the capacity of the poor to transform not only their own lives but also to build a just, humane, and democratic society.”
“Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.”
“Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.”

Source : Said before the Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805, in G. L. Newnham Collingwood (ed.) 'A Selection from the Correspondence of Lord Collingwood' (1828) vol. 1, p. 168
“Boxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent.”
“Man is a being in search of meaning.”
“Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.”
“Stressful energy arises when you think some future moment is more important than the present moment, and the doing becomes only a means to an end.”
“You can't really ever know what someone is like or what they're thinking. There are people who say they're feminists but who say really anti-feminist things, [and] other people who think they're one way but act another.”

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