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