Strategy Quotes

In a battle, as in a siege, the art consists in concentrating very heavy fire on a particular point. The line of battle once established, the one who has the ability to concentrate an unlooked for mass of artillery suddenly and unexpectedly on one of these points is sure to carry the day.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror.

There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

I start out by believing the worst.

When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

The art of war consists in bringing to bear with an inferior army a superiority of force at the point at which one attacks or is attacked.

War is composed of nothing but accidents...there is but one favorable moment, the great art is to seize it.

I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of the Quran which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness.

I have fought sixty battles and I have learned nothing which I did not know at the beginning.

Two of my Marshalls are racing to get under their orders the Italian troops; i leave it to Suchet who has better ambitions than Macdonald. The Italians will soon be recognized again as the first soldiers of Europe. I'm very proud of my brave Italian army.

It is an old strategy of tyrants to delude their victims into fighting their battles for them.

It is our duty now to begin to lay the plans and determine the strategy for the winning of a lasting peace and the establishment of an American standard of living higher than ever before known.

No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.

Nonviolent passive resistance is effective as long as your opposition adheres to the same rules as you do. But if peaceful protest is met with violence, its efficacy is at an end. For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.

India is Gandhi's country of birth; South Africa his country of adoption. He was both an Indian and a South African citizen. Both countries contributed to his intellectual and moral genius, and he shaped the liberatory movements in both colonial theaters. He is the archetypal anticolonial revolutionary. His strategy of noncooperation, his assertion that we can be dominated only if we cooperate with our dominators, and his nonviolent resistance inspired anticolonial and antiracist movements internationally in our century.

I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it. I was intrigued by how one moved one's body to protect oneself, how one used a strategy both to attack and retreat, how one paced oneself over a match.