Defeat In War Quotes

War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests. — Germaine Greer

As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war. — B.H. Liddell Hart

If one thinks only of winning, a sordid victory will be worse than a defeat. For the most part, it becomes a squalid defeat. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo

War is a defeat for humanity. — Pope John Paul II

War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum. — Bruce Jackson

Do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat — Sun Tzu

There is no shorter road to defeat than by entering a war with inadequate preparation. — Charles Lindbergh

A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Our armies were in as much chaos in victory as theirs in defeat. — Jefferson Davis

The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war. — Bill Ayers

Any forces that would impose their will on other nations will certainly face defeat. — Vo Nguyen Giap

Some victories are merely defeat wearing the wrong clothing — Kiersten White

We must take the long view - every defeat is a victory in a war of attrition. — Nathanael West

Jesus won the war, and the rest of history is simply mopping up. — Carolyn Custis James

In a similar way, The Art of War pinpoints anger and greed as fundamental causes of defeat. — Sun Tzu

And so the afternoon stretched on, and Ezbon toasted their imminent defeat to the dregs. — C.N. Faust

Love conquers all. Let Love then smile at our defeat. — Virgil

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands — Sun Tzu

I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in World War I. — Eric Kandel

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war. — Ludwig Von Mises

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose. — John T. Flynn

That's what any committed patriot would do: Fight to the last. Defeat your enemy at any cost; then hope you have enough left to rebuild. — Randolph D. Calverhall

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war. — Ernest Hemingway,

In War: Resolution,
In Defeat: Defiance,
In Victory: Magnanimity
In Peace: Good Will. — Winston S. Churchill

It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win the war. — Mark Lawrence

War is a dangerous teacher and physical victory leads often to a moral defeat. — Sri Aurobindo

Declare not war against your emotions, or prepare for the inevitable defeat! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

European merchants supply the best weaponry, contributing to their own defeat. — Saladin

These are six ways of courting defeat, which must be carefully noted by the general who has attained a responsible post. — Sun Tzu

If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations. — Nguyen Cao Ky

To defeat ISIS and let Iran get nuclear weapons would be to win the battle and lose the war, — Benjamin Netanyahu

The allies we gain by victory will turn against us upon the bare whisper of our defeat. — Napoleon Bonaparte

The good fighter is able to secure himself against defeat, but cannot make certain of defeating the enemy. — Sun Tzu

Can we not wage a war and emerge victorious against poverty. Let us defeat poverty. — Narendra Modi

Resort to force in the Great War (I) failed to bring tranquillity. Victory and defeat alike were sterile. That lesson the world should have learned. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

I'm not so much against the war as I am for a Vietnamese victory. I'm not so much for peace as for a U.S. defeat. — Bill Ayers

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. — Sun Tzu

We shall then defeat the whole lot of them in one go! — Edward I Of England

This is the moment of your defeat; you have just put in the last nails in the coffin of communism. — Lech Walesa

If no war in heaven, then defeat ain't misery. — Toba Beta

The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker. — Criss Jami

When both sides of a controversy revel in the defeat and humiliation of the other side, in fact they are on the same side: the side of war. — Charles Eisenstein

No compromise is possible and the victory of the democracies can only be complete with the utter defeat of the war machines of Germany and Japan. — George C. Marshall

Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination. — Adrienne Rich

Other wars end eventually in victory, defeat or exhaustion, but the war between men and women goes on forever. — Alison Lurie

In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad — Pamela Geller