Quotes on Military

I seek to lead a democratic Pakistan which is free from the yoke of military dictatorship and that will cease to be a haven, the very petri dish of international terrorism.

I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.

Some 70% to 80% of all who join the military will return to the civilian workforce. They'll return to communities, and one of the things I've worried about is the increasing disconnect between the American people and our men and women in uniform. We come from fewer and fewer places. We're less than 1% of the population.

In my 39 years in the military, I have learned that you are not a profession just because you say you are. You have to earn it and re-earn it and re-evaluate it from time to time.

The range of weapons at the disposal of military powers is terrifying in its capacity to damage the world and its inhabitants, perhaps even to bring humanity's long story to its end.

Be an example to your men, in your duty and in private life. Never spare yourself, and let the troops see that you don't in your endurance of fatigue and privation. Always be tactful and well-mannered and teach your subordinates to do the same. Avoid excessive sharpness or harshness of voice, which usually indicates the man who has shortcomings of his own to hide.

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.

Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country.

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that's always found a home in the restaurant business in much the same way that a lot of people find a home in the military.

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.

The atom bomb was no great decision. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

In the military, they give medals for people who are willing to sacrifice themselves so that others may survive. In business, we give bonuses to people who sacrifice others.

It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants men, the political leaders men, the military figures men. The very invisibility of women, the overlooking of women, is a sign of their submerged status.

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.