Quotes on Anger and Fighting
16. "Guns. Lots Of Guns."
- John Wick in John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019)
John Wick, Anger and Fighting
17. "$14 Million Dollar Bounty On His Head, And Every Interested Party In The City Wants A Piece Of It. I'd Say The Odds Are About Even."
- Winston Scott in John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019)
John Wick, Anger and Fighting
18. "'Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum. (If You Want Peace, Prepare For War.)"
- Winston Scott in John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019)
John Wick, Anger and Fighting, Life
9. "You Want A War Or Do You Wanna Just Give Me A Gun?"
- John Wick in John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
John Wick, Anger and Fighting
10. "The Knife Is In Your Aorta. You Pull It Out, You Will Bleed, And You Will Die. Consider This A Professional Courtesy."
- John Wick in John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
John Wick, Anger and Fighting
11. "You Stabbed The Devil In The Back And Forced Him Back Into The Life He Had Just Left."
- Winston Scott in John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
John Wick, Anger and Fighting
12. "Tell Them All. Whoever Comes, Whoever It Is, I'll Kill Them. I'll Kill Them All."
- John Wick in John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
John Wick, Anger and Fighting, Goals
3. "Do I Look Civilized To You?"
- John Wick in John Wick (2014)
John Wick, Anger and Fighting
4. "...He Stole John Wick's Car, Sir, And, Uhhh... Killed His Dog."
- Aurelio in John Wick (2014)
John Wick, Anger and Fighting
5. "I Once Saw Him Kill Three Men In A Bar With A Pencil. With A F***ing Pencil!"
- Viggo Tarasov John Wick (2014)
John Wick, Anger and Fighting
6. "Well, John Wasn't Exactly 'The Boogeyman.' He Was The One You Sent To Kill The F***ing Boogeyman."
- Viggo Tarasov in John Wick (2014)
John Wick, Anger and Fighting
7. "Victor's Dead. Everything's Got A Price."
- John Wick in John Wick (2014)
John Wick, Anger and Fighting
"Guns. Lots of guns." – Neo (The Matrix)
The Matrix, Anger and Fighting
“Chapter 95
Fairfield, Connecticut – May 8, 2015
“No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.”
Calvin Coolidge, Society, Anger and Fighting
“No peace and security among mankind—let alone common friendship—can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from God and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms.”
― John Locke, A Letter Concerning Toleration
John Locke, Friendship, Government, Belief, Anger and Fighting
Man becomes his most creative during war.
Clint Eastwood, Anger and Fighting
I’ve had no problem harnessing anger.
Clint Eastwood, Anger and Fighting
“Why, sir, in the beginning we appointed all our worst generals to command the armies, and all our best generals to edit the newspapers. As you know, I have planned some campaigns and quite a number of battles. I have given the work all the care and thought I could, and sometimes, when my plans were completed, as far as I could see, they seemed to be perfect. But when I have fought them through, I have discovered defects and occasionally wondered I did not see some of the defects in advance. When it was all over, I found by reading a newspaper that these best editor generals saw all the defects plainly from the start. Unfortunately, they did not communicate their knowledge to me until it was too late.” Then, after a pause, he added, with a beautiful, grave expression I can never forget: “I have no ambition but to serve the Confederacy, and do all I can to win our independence. I an willing to serve in any capacity to which the authorities may assign me. I have done the best I could in the field, and have not succeeded as I could wish. I am willing to yield my place to these best generals, and I will do my best for the cause in editing a newspaper.”
In the same strain he once remarked to one of his generals: “Even as poor a soldier as I am can generally discover mistakes after it is all over. But if I could only induce these wise gentlemen who see them so clearly beforehand to communicate with me in advance, instead of waiting until the evil has come upon us, to let me know that they knew all the time, it would be far better for my reputation, and (what is of more consequence) far better for the cause.”
Robert E Lee, Anger and Fighting
“Cadets can neither be treated as schoolboys or soldiers.”
Robert E Lee, Anger and Fighting
“We all thought Richmond, protected as it was by our splendid fortifications and defended by our army of veterans, could not be taken. Yet Grant turned his face to our Capital, and never turned it away until we had surrendered. Now, I have carefully searched the military records of both ancient and modern history, and have never found Grant's superior as a general. I doubt that his superior can be found in all history.”
Robert E Lee, Anger and Fighting
“It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.”
Robert E Lee, Anger and Fighting
“Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.”
William James, Anger and Fighting
“I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe;
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
And I water'd it in fears,
Night & morning with my tears;
And I sunnéd it with smiles
And with soft deceitful wiles.
And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright;
And my foe beheld it shine,
And he knew that it was mine,
And into my garden stole,
When the night had veil'd the pole:
In the morning glad I see
My foe outstretch'd beneath the tree.”
― William Blake, Songs of Experience
William Blake, Anger and Fighting
“You’ll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Anger and Fighting
“War is over ... If you want it.”
John Lennon, Goals, Anger and Fighting
“I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.”
Alexander the Great, Anger and Fighting
“Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves. There are Greek troops, to be sure, in Persian service — but how different is their cause from ours! They will be fighting for pay — and not much of at that; we, on the contrary, shall fight for Greece, and our hearts will be in it. As for our foreign troops — Thracians, Paeonians, Illyrians, Agrianes — they are the best and stoutest soldiers in Europe, and they will find as their opponents the slackest and softest of the tribes of Asia. And what, finally, of the two men in supreme command? You have Alexander, they — Darius!”
Alexander the Great, Anger and Fighting
“Holy shadows of the dead, I am not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brother people to fight one another. I do not feel happy for this victory of mine. On the contrary, I would be glad, brothers, if I had all of you standing here next to me, since we are united by the same language, the same blood and the same visions.”
- Addressing the dead Hellenes of the Battle of Chaeronea
Alexander the Great, Anger and Fighting
“Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.”
Alexander the Great, Anger and Fighting, Courage
“The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.”
― Stephen King, The Stand
Stephen King, Anger and Fighting
“Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.”
― Stephen King, Bag of Bones
Stephen King, Anger and Fighting
“finally defeat Japanese imperialism only through the cumulative effect of many offensive campaigns and battles in both regular and guerrilla warfare.”
― Mao Tse-tung, On Guerrilla Warfare
Mao Zedong, Anger and Fighting
“But the basic principle of guerrilla warfare must be the offensive, and guerrilla warfare is more offensive in its character than regular warfare.”
― Mao Tse-tung, On Guerrilla Warfare
Mao Zedong, Anger and Fighting
“Generally speaking, the main principles are as follows: (1) the use of initiative, flexibility and planning in conducting offensives within the defensive, battles of quick decision within protracted war, and exterior-line operations within interior-line operations; (2) co-ordination with regular warfare; (3) establishment of base areas; (4) the strategic defensive and the strategic offensive; (5) the development of guerrilla warfare into mobile warfare; and (6) correct relationship of command.”
― Mao Tse-tung, On Guerrilla Warfare
Mao Zedong, Anger and Fighting
“Guerrilla leaders spend a great deal more time in organization, instruction, agitation, and propaganda work than they do fighting, for their most important job is to win over the people. “We must patiently explain,” says Mao Tse-tung. “Explain,” “persuade,” “discuss,” “convince”—these words recur with monotonous regularity in many of the early Chinese essays on guerrilla war. Mao has aptly compared guerrillas to fish, and the people to the water in which they swim. If the political temperature is right, the fish, however few in number, will thrive and proliferate. It is therefore the principal concern of all guerrilla leaders to get the water to the right temperature and to keep it there.”
― Mao Tse-tung, Mao Tse-Tung On Guerrilla Warfare
Mao Zedong, Anger and Fighting
“We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun. Ibid.”
― Mao Tse-tung, Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung
Mao Zedong, Anger and Fighting
“The chief enemies in China's revolutionary war are imperialism and the feudal forces.”
― Mao Tse-tung, On Guerrilla Warfare
Mao Zedong, Anger and Fighting
“This army is powerful because all its members have a conscious discipline; they have come together and they fight not for the private interests of a few individuals or a narrow clique, but for the interests of the broad masses and of the whole nation. The sole purpose of this army is to stand firmly with the Chinese people and to serve them whole-heartedly.”
― Mao Tse-tung, Quotations from Chairman
Mao Zedong, Anger and Fighting
“Evil does not exist in guerrilla warfare but only in the unorganized and undisciplined activities that are anarchism.”
― Mao Tse-tung, The Red Book of Guerrilla Warfare
Mao Zedong, Anger and Fighting
“War, this monster of mutual slaughter among men, will be finally eliminated by the progress of human society, and in the not too distant future too.”
― Mao Tse-tung, Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung
Mao Zedong, Anger and Fighting
“Keep the enemy in the dark about where and when our forces will attack.”
Mao Zedong, Anger and Fighting
“Concentrate a big force to strike at a small section of the enemy force" remains a principle of field operations in guerrilla warfare.”
― Mao Tse-tung, On Guerrilla Warfare
Mao Zedong, Anger and Fighting
“...this protracted war will pass through three stages. The first stage covers the period of the enemy's strategic offensive and our strategic defensive. The second stage will be the period of the enemy's strategic consolidation and our preparation for the counter-offensive. The third stage will be the period of our strategic counter-offensive and the enemy's strategic retreat.”
― Mao Zedong, Selected Military Writings
Mao Zedong, Anger and Fighting
“The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.”
Mao Zedong, Anger and Fighting
“War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.”
Mao Zedong, Anger and Fighting
“Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.”
Mao Zedong, Government, Anger and Fighting
“There are some militarists who say: ‘We are not interested in politics but only in the profession of arms.’ It is vital that these simple-minded militarists be made to realize the relationship that exists between politics and military affairs. Military action is a method used to attain a political goal. While military affairs and political affairs are not identical, it is impossible to isolate one from the other.”
Mao Zedong, Government, Anger and Fighting
“Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.”
Mao Zedong, Government, Anger and Fighting
“Silence is argument carried out by other means.”
Che Guevara, Anger and Fighting
“One morning I woke up and found my favorite pigeon, Julius, had died. I was devastated and was gonna use his crate as my stickball bat to honor him. I left the crate on my stoop and went in to get something and I returned to see the sanitation man put the crate into the crusher. I rushed him and caught him flush on the temple with a titanic right hand and he was out cold, convulsing on the floor.”
- Mike Tyson being an example of how grief can turn a person violent.
Mike Tyson, Anger and Fighting
“I wish one of you guys had children, so I could kick them in their fucking head or stomp on their testicles so you could feel my pain, because that’s the pain I have waking up every day.”
- In expressing his anger, Mike Tyson likes to threaten violence on people and their loved ones.
Mike Tyson, Anger and Fighting
"Never make excuses. Your friends don’t need them and your foes won’t believe them."
John Wooden, Goals, Friendship, Anger and Fighting
“Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call "the economy" or "the free market" is less and less distinguishable from warfare.”
Wendell Berry, Business, Anger and Fighting
“Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.”
Margaret Mead, Society, Anger and Fighting, Problems
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
Margaret Thatcher, Anger and Fighting
“For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions.”
Margaret Thatcher, Society, Anger and Fighting
"Conflict cannot survive without your participation."
Wayne Dyer, Anger and Fighting
"There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever."
Thomas Edison, Ideas, Science, Anger and Fighting
“Make time for planning; Wars are won in the general’s tent.”
Stephen Covey, Planning, Anger and Fighting
“When you’re hurt or angry, let go by tapping into your humbleness. You want people to remember you for your grace.”
Stevie Nicks, Life, Anger and Fighting
“A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.”
David Goggins, Anger and Fighting
“I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.”
Katharine Hepburn, Anger and Fighting
“Enemies are so stimulating.”
Katharine Hepburn, Anger and Fighting
“What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization, and disorder on the part of the inferior… jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.”
Florence Nightingale, Anger and Fighting
"Love those that hate you, but to love those one hate is impossible."
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Love, Anger and Fighting
"The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience."
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Time, Anger and Fighting
"Peace is always beautiful."
Walt Whitman, Anger and Fighting
"Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won."
Walt Whitman, Anger and Fighting
"I don't go by the rule book."
Princess Diana, Anger and Fighting
"If I participate, knowingly or otherwise, in my sister's oppression and she calls me on it, to answer her anger with my own only blankets the substance of our exchange with reaction. It wastes energy."
Audre Lorde, Justice, Anger and Fighting
"Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge."
Audre Lorde, Anger and Fighting, Intelligence/Wisdom
"I cannot hide my anger to spare you guilt, nor hurt feelings, nor answering anger; for to do so insults and trivializes all our efforts."
Audre Lorde, Anger and Fighting
"Hatred is the fury of those who do not share our goals, and its object is death and destruction. Anger is a grief of distortions between peers, and its object is change."
Audre Lorde, Anger and Fighting
"Anger is useful to help clarify our differences, but in the long run, strength that is bred by anger alone is a blind force which cannot create the future. It can only demolish the past. Such strength does not focus upon what lies ahead, but upon what lies behind, upon what created it—hatred. And hatred is a deathwish for the hated, not a lifewish for anything else."
Audre Lorde, Anger and Fighting, Strength
"Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does."
Audre Lorde, Anger and Fighting
"The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged."
bell hooks, Anger and Fighting, Society
"The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her for a moment like a wild beast, began screaming “Off with her head! Off with—”
“Nonsense!” said Alice, very loudly and decidedly, and the Queen was silent."
Alice in Wonderland, Anger and Fighting
"I could hardly afford to lose my head."
Alice in Wonderland, Anger and Fighting
"How fine you look when dressed in rage. Your enemies are fortunate your condition is not permanent. You’re lucky, too. Red eyes suit so few."
Alice in Wonderland, Anger and Fighting
"You can write a book on how to ruin someone’s perfect day."
Taylor Swift, Anger and Fighting, Art
"If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate."
Taylor Swift, Anger and Fighting, Music
"It's hard to fight when the fight ain't fair."
Taylor Swift, Anger and Fighting
"I took a chance, I took a shot And you may think I’m bullet-proof, but I’m not. You took a swing, I took it hard. And down here from the ground I see who you are."
Taylor Swift, Anger and Fighting
"Appears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say ‘Peace, Peace,’ as much as they likes, I know it’s going to be war!"
Harriet Tubman, Anger and Fighting
"At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed."
Frederick Douglass, Anger and Fighting
"A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me."
Frederick Douglass, Anger and Fighting
"Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists."
Maria Montessori, Intelligence/Wisdom, Government, Anger and Fighting
"Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war."
Maria Montessori, Intelligence/Wisdom, Government, Anger and Fighting
"Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments."
George Orwell, Anger and Fighting
"An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot."
Thomas Paine, Anger and Fighting
"That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true..."
Thomas Paine, Anger and Fighting, Society
"Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."
Thomas Paine, Anger and Fighting
"Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."
Thomas Paine, Anger and Fighting, Freedom
"The greatest remedy for anger is delay."
Thomas Paine, Anger and Fighting
"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace."
Thomas Paine, Anger and Fighting
"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow."
Thomas Paine, Anger and Fighting, Success, Strength
"To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture."
Thomas Paine, Anger and Fighting
"It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance."
Thomas Sowell, Anger and Fighting
"If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism."
Thomas Sowell, Anger and Fighting
"Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum on education. The twenty-first century will reverse this order. It will be more glorious to fight against ignorance than to die on the field of battle. The discovery of a new scientific truth will be more important than the squabbles of diplomats. Even the newspapers of our own day are beginning to treat scientific discoveries and the creation of fresh philosophical concepts as news. The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere 'stick' in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis.
Progress along such lines will be impossible while nations persist in the savage practice of killing each other off. I inherited from my father, an erudite man who labored hard for peace, an ineradicable hatred of war."
Tesla, Anger and Fighting, Intelligence/Wisdom, Science
"Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term. Misunderstandings are always caused by the inability of appreciating one another's point of view. This again is due to the ignorance of those concerned, not so much in their own, as in their mutual fields. The peril of a clash is aggravated by a more or less predominant sense of combativeness, posed by every human being. To resist this inherent fighting tendency the best way is to dispel ignorance of the doings of others by a systematic spread of general knowledge. With this object in view, it is most important to aid exchange of thought and intercourse."
Tesla, Anger and Fighting
"If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world."
Tesla, Anger and Fighting, Science
"Did I ever tell you my father's last words to me? 'Careful son, I don't think the safety is on'. Before that."
John Wayne, Anger and Fighting
"I haven't had a fight since I was eleven. I only won that because she had an asthma attack."
John Wayne, Anger and Fighting
"Seen better fights than this at a prayer meeting."
John Wayne, Anger and Fighting
"I would think somebody like Jane Fonda and her idiot husband would be terribly ashamed and saddened that they were a part of causing us to stop helping the South Vietnamese. Now look what’s happening. They’re getting killed by the millions. Murdered by the millions. How the hell can she and her husband sleep at night?"
John Wayne, Anger and Fighting
"All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else."
John Wayne, Anger and Fighting
"When we set our minds against one another, when we focus on destructive energy and propagate the negative notions of separation, division, discrimination, rejection, domination, and war, we waste our power in a futile attempt to debase, degrade, and even destroy the light in others."
John Lewis, Anger and Fighting
"Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America."
John Lewis, Goals, Anger and Fighting
"Darkness cannot overcome darkness, only light can do that. Violence can never overcome violence, only peace can do that. Hate can never overcome hate, only love can do that."
John Lewis, Anger and Fighting, Love
"Fury spends itself pretty quickly when there's no fury facing it."
John Lewis, Anger and Fighting
"We children of public school age can do much to aid in the promotion of peace. We must try to train ourselves and those about us to live together with one another as good neighbors for this idea is embodied in the great new Charter of the United Nations. It is the only way to secure the world against future wars and maintain an everlasting peace."
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Anger and Fighting
"Another often-asked question when I speak in public: “Do you have some good advice you might share with us?” Yes, I do. It comes from my savvy mother-in-law, advice she gave me on my wedding day. “In every good marriage,” she counseled, “it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.” I have followed that advice assiduously, and not only at home through fifty-six years of a marital partnership nonpareil. I have employed it as well in every workplace, including the Supreme Court of the United States. When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out. Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade."
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Anger and Fighting
"Yet what greater defeat could we suffer than to come to resemble the forces we oppose in their disrespect for human dignity?"
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Anger and Fighting
"My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential. Two things were important to her and she repeated them endlessly. One was to ‘be a lady,’ and that meant conduct yourself civilly, don’t let emotions like anger or envy get in your way. And the other was to be independent, which was an unusual message for mothers of that time to be giving their daughters."
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sex, Anger and Fighting
"You can disagree without being disagreeable."
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Anger and Fighting
"When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out. Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade."
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Anger and Fighting
"Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?"
Eleanor Roosevelt, Anger and Fighting
"Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here."
Eleanor Roosevelt, Anger and Fighting
"It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it."
Eleanor Roosevelt, Anger and Fighting
"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"
Eleanor Roosevelt, Kindness, Anger and Fighting
"No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war."
Eleanor Roosevelt, Anger and Fighting
"They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason."
Ernest Hemingway, Anger and Fighting
"It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing."
Ernest Hemingway, Anger and Fighting
"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."
Ernest Hemingway, Anger and Fighting
"Know your enemy — and learn about his favorite sport."
Nelson Mandela, Anger and Fighting
"I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live."
Epictetus, Anger and Fighting
"Remember, it is not enough to be hit or insulted to be harmed, you must believe that you are being harmed. If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation. Which is why it is essential that we not respond impulsively to impressions; take a moment before reacting, and you will find it easier to maintain control."
Epictetus, Anger and Fighting
"Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him."
Epictetus, Anger and Fighting
"Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it."
Seneca, Anger and Fighting
"A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand."
Seneca, Anger and Fighting
"There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot."
Plato, Anger and Fighting
"Only the dead have seen the end of war."
Plato, Anger and Fighting
"Boards don't hit back."
Bruce Lee, Anger and Fighting
"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus."
Bruce Lee, Anger and Fighting
"Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be concerned with escaping safely- lay your life before him!!"
Bruce Lee, Anger and Fighting
"The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment."
Bruce Lee, Anger and Fighting
"A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough."
Bruce Lee, Anger and Fighting
"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times."
Bruce Lee, Anger and Fighting
"Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation
Delivered on December 8, 1941
Mr. Vice President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives:
Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 -- a date which will live in infamy -- the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
The United States was at peace with that nation and, at the solicitation of Japan, was still in conversation with its government and its emperor looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific.
Indeed, one hour after Japanese air squadrons had commenced bombing in the American island of Oahu, the Japanese ambassador to the United States and his colleague delivered to our Secretary of State a formal reply to a recent American message. And while this reply stated that it seemed useless to continue the existing diplomatic negotiations, it contained no threat or hint of war or of armed attack.
It will be recorded that the distance of Hawaii from Japan makes it obvious that the attack was deliberately planned many days or even weeks ago. During the intervening time, the Japanese government has deliberately sought to deceive the United States by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace.
The attack yesterday on the Hawaiian islands has caused severe damage to American naval and military forces. I regret to tell you that very many American lives have been lost. In addition, American ships have been reported torpedoed on the high seas between San Francisco and Honolulu.
Yesterday, the Japanese government also launched an attack against Malaya.
Last night, Japanese forces attacked Hong Kong.
Last night, Japanese forces attacked Guam.
Last night, Japanese forces attacked the Philippine Islands.
Last night, the Japanese attacked Wake Island.
And this morning, the Japanese attacked Midway Island.
Japan has, therefore, undertaken a surprise offensive extending throughout the Pacific area. The facts of yesterday and today speak for themselves. The people of the United States have already formed their opinions and well understand the implications to the very life and safety of our nation.
As commander in chief of the Army and Navy, I have directed that all measures be taken for our defense. But always will our whole nation remember the character of the onslaught against us.
No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.
I believe that I interpret the will of the Congress and of the people when I assert that we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost, but will make it very certain that this form of treachery shall never again endanger us.
Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory, and our interests are in grave danger.
With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph -- so help us God.
I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7th, 1941, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese empire."
FDR- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Anger and Fighting
"I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of line—the survivors of a regiment of 1,000 that went forward 48 hours before. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war."
FDR- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Anger and Fighting
"War is young men dying and old men talking."
FDR- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Anger and Fighting
"A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns."
FDR- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Intelligence/Wisdom, Anger and Fighting
"There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy."
George Washington, Anger and Fighting
"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all."
George Washington, Anger and Fighting
"Real men despise battle, but will never run from it."
George Washington, Anger and Fighting
"Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; this is all we can expect - We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die: Our own Country's Honor, all call upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion, and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world. Let us therefore rely upon the goodness of the Cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands Victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble Actions - The Eyes of all our Countrymen are now upon us, and we shall have their blessings, and praises, if happily we are the instruments of saving them from the Tyranny meditated against them. Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and shew the whole world, that a Freeman contending for Liberty on his own ground is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth."
George Washington, Anger and Fighting, Freedom
"If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War."
George Washington, Goals, Anger and Fighting
"Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession."
George Washington, Anger and Fighting
"the harder the conflict, the greater the triumph."
George Washington, Anger and Fighting, Success
"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."
Thomas Jefferson, Anger and Fighting
"Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace, that pursuit must go on."
JFK- John F. Kennedy, Goals, Anger and Fighting
"Mankind must put an end to war - or war will put an end to mankind."
JFK- John F. Kennedy, Anger and Fighting
"The great body of our citizens shoot less as times goes on. We should encourage rifle practice among schoolboys, and indeed among all classes, as well as in the military services by every means in our power. Thus, and not otherwise, may we be able to assist in preserving peace in the world... The first step – in the direction of preparation to avert war if possible, and to be fit for war if it should come – is to teach men to shoot!"
Teddy Roosevelt, Anger and Fighting
"If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness."
Teddy Roosevelt, Anger and Fighting
"Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others."
Socrates, Anger and Fighting
"We make war that we may live in peace."
Aristotle, Anger and Fighting
"The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend."
Aristotle, Anger and Fighting, Friendship
"It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace."
Aristotle, Anger and Fighting, Success
"Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy."
Aristotle, Anger and Fighting, Power
"It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog."
Mark Twain, Anger and Fighting
"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured."
Mark Twain, Anger and Fighting
"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience."
Mark Twain, Anger and Fighting
"When you go after honey with a balloon, the great thing is to not let the bees know you’re coming."
Winnie the Pooh, Anger and Fighting
"Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder."
Rumi, Anger and Fighting
"Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight."
Bob Marley, Anger and Fighting
"Lightning makes no sound until it strikes."
Martin Luther King Jr., Anger and Fighting
"Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it. There will come a time, in many instances, when the person who hates you most, the person who has misused you most, the person who has gossiped about you most, the person who has spread false rumors about you most, there will come a time when you will have an opportunity to defeat that person. It might be in terms of a recommendation for a job; it might be in terms of helping that person to make some move in life. That’s the time you must do it. That is the meaning of love. In the final analysis, love is not this sentimental something that we talk about. It’s not merely an emotional something. Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. When you rise to the level of love, of its great beauty and power, you seek only to defeat evil systems. Individuals who happen to be caught up in that system, you love, but you seek to defeat the system."
Martin Luther King Jr., Anger and Fighting, Love, Society
"Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."
Martin Luther King Jr., Anger and Fighting, Love
"The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence."
Martin Luther King Jr., Anger and Fighting
"Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows."
Martin Luther King Jr., Anger and Fighting
"I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls."
Martin Luther King Jr., Anger and Fighting
"There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies."
Martin Luther King Jr., Anger and Fighting
"Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, "Love your enemies." It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. Just keep being friendly to that person. Just keep loving them, and they can’t stand it too long. Oh, they react in many ways in the beginning. They react with guilt feelings, and sometimes they’ll hate you a little more at that transition period, but just keep loving them. And by the power of your love they will break down under the load. That’s love, you see. It is redemptive, and this is why Jesus says love. There’s something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies."
Martin Luther King Jr., Belief, Love, Anger and Fighting
"Let no man pull you so low as to hate him."
Martin Luther King Jr., Anger and Fighting
"I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise."
Abraham Lincoln, Anger and Fighting
"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."
Abraham Lincoln, Anger and Fighting, Friendship
"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"
Abraham Lincoln, Anger and Fighting, Friendship
"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."
Gandhi, Anger and Fighting
"Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love."
Gandhi, Anger and Fighting, Love
"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?"
Gandhi, Anger and Fighting
"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind."
Gandhi, Anger and Fighting
"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."
Marcus Aurelius, Anger and Fighting
"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."
Marcus Aurelius, Anger and Fighting
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
Winston Churchill, Anger and Fighting
"You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival."
Winston Churchill, Anger and Fighting
"If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack."
Winston Churchill, Anger and Fighting
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
Winston Churchill, Anger and Fighting
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
Winston Churchill, Anger and Fighting
"Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."
Winston Churchill, Anger and Fighting
"Never, never, never give in!"
Winston Churchill, Anger and Fighting
"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."
Winston Churchill, Anger and Fighting
"I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex."
Bertrand Russell, Anger and Fighting, Life
"United you will be more than a match for your enemies. But if you quarrel and separate, your weakness will put you at the mercy of those who attack you."
Aesop, Anger and Fighting
"Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten."
Aesop, Anger and Fighting
"The north wind and the sun were disputing which was the stronger, and agreed to acknowledge as the victor whichever of them could strip a traveler of his clothing. The wind tried first. But its violent gusts only made the man hold his clothes tightly around him, and when it blew harder still the cold made him so uncomfortable that he put on an extra wrap. Eventually the wind got tired of it and handed him over to the sun. The sun shone first with moderate warmth, which made the man take off his topcoat. Then it blazed fiercely, till, unable to stand the heat, he stripped and went off to a bathe in a nearby river. Persuasion is more effective than force."
Aesop, Anger and Fighting
"Wise men say nothing in dangerous times."
Aesop, Anger and Fighting
"He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own."
Aesop, Anger and Fighting
"The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagles own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction."
Aesop, Anger and Fighting
"The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales."
Aesop, Anger and Fighting
"No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for."
Voltaire, Anger and Fighting
"It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce."
Voltaire, Anger and Fighting
"Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."
Oscar Wilde, Anger and Fighting
"Put your iron hand in a velvet glove."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Anger and Fighting
"Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Anger and Fighting
"Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Anger and Fighting
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Anger and Fighting
"He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Anger and Fighting
"China is a sleeping giant; let him sleep, for if he wakes, he will shake the World."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Anger and Fighting
"You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Intelligence/Wisdom, Anger and Fighting
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Anger and Fighting
"He conquers twice, who shows mercy to the conquered."
Julius Caesar, Anger and Fighting
"It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking...."
Julius Caesar, Anger and Fighting
"In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes."
Julius Caesar, Anger and Fighting
"I came to Rome when it was a city of stone ... and left it a city of marble."
Julius Caesar, Anger and Fighting
"Divide and Conquer."
Julius Caesar, Anger and Fighting
"All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures."
Julius Caesar, Anger and Fighting
"No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected."
Julius Caesar, Anger and Fighting
"The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look."
Julius Caesar, Anger and Fighting
"I came, I saw, I conquered."
Julius Caesar, Anger and Fighting
"It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience."
Julius Caesar, Anger and Fighting
"Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy."
Isaac Newton, Anger and Fighting
"You show me a lazy p***k who's lying in bed all day, watching TV, only occasionally getting up to p**s, and I'll show you a guy who's not causing any trouble."
George Carlin, Anger and Fighting
"War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class men off to die."
George Carlin, Anger and Fighting
"How is it possible to have a civil war?"
George Carlin, Anger and Fighting
"Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience."
George Carlin, Anger and Fighting
"We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Anger and Fighting
"Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Anger and Fighting
"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Anger and Fighting
"No nation was ever ruined by trade."
Benjamin Franklin, Anger and Fighting
"There never was a good war or a bad peace."
Benjamin Franklin, Anger and Fighting
"Don’t throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass."
Benjamin Franklin, Anger and Fighting
"Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"Thus the expert in battle moves the enemy, and is not moved by him."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"Be extremely subtle even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory: (1) He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight; (2) he will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces; (3) he will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks; (4) he will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared; (5) he will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting, Government, Management
"To know your enemy, you must become your enemy."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"Convince your enemy that he will gain very little by attacking you; this will diminish his enthusiasm."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting, Government
"The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting, Government
"Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"If his forces are united, separate them."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: (1) Recklessness, which leads to destruction; (2) cowardice, which leads to capture; (3) a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults; (4) a delicacy of honor which is sensitive to shame; (5) over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"When your army has crossed the border, you should burn your boats and bridges, in order to make it clear to everybody that you have no hankering after home."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of a trigger."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"Those skilled at making the enemy move do so by creating a situation to which he must conform; they entice him with something he is certain to take, and with lures of ostensible profit they await him in strength."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"Hence that general is skillful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skillful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"If there is disturbance in the camp, the general's authority is weak."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"The worst calamities that befall an army arise from hesitation."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"When the outlook is bright, bring it before their eyes; but tell them nothing when the situation is gloomy."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting, Government
"Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"If you fight with all your might, there is a chance of life; where as death is certain if you cling to your corner."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"In battle, there are not more than two methods of attack--the direct and the indirect; yet these two in combination give rise to an endless series of maneuvers."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"Who does not know the evils of war cannot appreciate its benefits."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"Be where your enemy is not."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"The skillful tactician may be likened to the shuai-jan. Now the shuai-jan is a snake that is found in the Ch'ang mountains. Strike at its head, and you will be attacked by its tail; strike at its tail, and you will be attacked by its head; strike at its middle, and you will be attacked by head and tail both."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"Bravery without forethought, causes a man to fight blindly and desperately like a mad bull. Such an opponent, must not be encountered with brute force, but may be lured into an ambush and slain."
Sun Tzu, Courage, Anger and Fighting
"To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"If quick, I survive. If not quick, I am lost. This is death."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"Great results can be achieved with small forces."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"Attack is the secret of defense; defense is the planning of an attack."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must not be attacked, towns which must not be besieged, positions which must not be contested, commands of the sovereign which must not be obeyed."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting, Government
"Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting, Government
"He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"The wise warrior avoids the battle."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"One may know how to conquer without being able to do it."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"Who wishes to fight must first count the cost."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting, Government
"The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting, Government
"Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"Quickness is the essence of the war."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"The greatest victory is that which requires no battle."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight."
Sun Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"When anger rises, think of the consequences."
Confucius, Anger and Fighting
"Respond to anger with virtue. Deal with difficulties while they are still easy. Handle the great while it is still small."
Lao Tzu, Anger and Fighting, Kindness, Problems
"There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent."
Lao Tzu, Anger and Fighting
"If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness."
Lao Tzu, Anger and Fighting, Kindness
"Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness."
Lao Tzu, Anger and Fighting, Kindness
"The best fighter is never angry."