- "So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak."
-- Sun Tzu
- "All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved."
-- Sun Tzu
- "Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat."
-- Sun Tzu
- "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
- "Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory. "
-- Sun Tzu
- "For 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
- "One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am – a reluctant enthusiast….a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much; I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards."
-— Edward Abbey
- "All war is based on deception. Of all those close to the commander, none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations."
-- Sun Tzu
- "He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious. "
-- Sun Tzu
- "The Wheels of Justice turn slowly but exceedingly fine."
-- attributed to many, including Sun Tzu and Longfellow
- "Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer."
-- Sun Tzu
- "If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near. "
-- Sun Tzu
- "In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. "
-- Sun Tzu
- "Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance."
-- Sun Tzu
- "Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. "
-- Sun Tzu
- "The opportunity 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
- "There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited."
-- Sun Tzu
- "When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. "
-- Sun Tzu
- "Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. "
-- Sun Tzu
- "He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious."
-- Sun Tzu
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