{"quotes":[{"text":"First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.","author":"Horatio Nelson","tags":["air-force","airmen","army","battle","battlefield","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","maurus-macgregor","motivation","motivational","motivational","pilot","raf","royal-navy","sailors","soldiers","us-air-force","us-army","us-navy","usaf","war"],"id":8154,"author_id":"Horatio+Nelson"},{"text":"The ground had opened up and spit out hell, Nell thought, and the detritus was Shiloh.","author":"Kelsey Brickl","tags":["battle","battle-of-shiloh","battlefield","civil-war","hell","kentucky","shiloh","spit","tennessee"],"id":23064,"author_id":"Kelsey+Brickl"},{"text":"You study the Path of Peace. I practice the Art of War. There are some congruities between these different approaches but there are many more differences, and they are significant. The Art of War is carried out on the battlefield with deadly weaponry and sometimes, more importantly, in other places and in other ways that you would find distasteful. If I speak little about my plans it's because the Art of War teaches that it is the business of a general to ensure secrecy. You might want to mollify or change my tactics or strategies to fit the morals of your peacetime world and I'd be shackled and hampered in seeing the victory won as it should be, as quickly as possible, with as little fighting as possible, and at the lowest cost possible. You cannot bear the consequences of battle and you don't know the resources required. I do.","author":"Aleksandra Layland","tags":["battlefield","military","peace","war"],"id":26895,"author_id":"Aleksandra+Layland"},{"text":"Perhaps I occasionally sought to give, or inadvertently gave, to the student a sense of battle on the intellectual battlefield. If all you do is to give them a faultless and complete and uninhabited architectural masterpiece, then you do not help them to become builders of their own.","author":"Carl-Gustaf Rossby","tags":["battlefield","builder","growth","help","intellect","masterpiece","student","teaching","tutor"],"id":46063,"author_id":"Carl-Gustaf+Rossby"},{"text":"All the words I had prepared turned coward and fled my mind like conscripts deserting a battlefield.","author":"Nancy Springer","tags":["battlefield","conscript","coward","flee","mind","word"],"id":88518,"author_id":"Nancy+Springer"},{"text":"Tis action moves the world....[in] the game of chess, mind that: ye cannot leave your men to stand unmoving on the board and hope to win. A soldier must first step upon the battlefield if does mean to cross it.","author":"Susanna Kearsley","tags":["action","battlefield","chess","faith","soldier"],"id":98495,"author_id":"Susanna+Kearsley"},{"text":"Through the door at the end of the hall, Bushrod could see daylight. Gray and sullen it was, but daylight all the same. Through the years Bushrod had seen the dawn come to many fields, after many hard fights, and it was always a sacred moment to him--proof that the universe was still intact in spite of the blood on the ground, the hosts of Departed beginning their first day in eternity, the dead horses and broken gun carriages and scattered equipment--in spite of all the panoramic ruin of the battlefield so brutal and grotesque that it was a wonder God did not bury it in darkness forever--and with it the guilty living, who crept from their holes or their stiff blankets and looked about with astonishment on what they had done. But God never would bury it. He always seemed to want to start over again, whether out of anger or pity Bushrod could not say. And now here was another dawn, after another great fight, and once more God had permitted Bushrod Carter to live.","author":"Howard Bahr","tags":["battlefield","dawn","god"],"id":106841,"author_id":"Howard+Bahr"},{"text":"Every country is a battlefield for the struggle between honest and dishonest, between honourable and honourless people! At the end, the character of that country will be determined by whichever group wins!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["battlefield","battlefields","character","country","country","dishonest","honest","honourable","honourless","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","struggle","struggles","struggles","turkish-aphorisms","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-sayings","turkish-thinkers","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers"],"id":119329,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"The most dangerous people in the world are not the tiny minority instigating evil acts, but those who do the acts for them. For example, when the British invaded India, many Indians accepted to work for the British to kill off Indians who resisted their occupation. So in other words, many Indians were hired to kill other Indians on behalf of the enemy for a paycheck. Today, we have mercenaries in Africa, corporate armies from the western world, and unemployed men throughout the Middle East killing their own people - and people of other nations - for a paycheck. To act without a conscience, but for a paycheck, makes anyone a dangerous animal. The devil would be powerless if he couldn't entice people to do his work. So as long as money continues to seduce the hungry, the hopeless, the broken, the greedy, and the needy, there will always be war between brothers.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["army","bad","battlefield","british","brothers","capitalism","chaos","combat","conflict","conscience","corruption","countries","danger","dangerous","deeds","destruction","devil","divided","division","ethics","evil","evil-acts","evil-men","greedy","helpless","hopeless","humanity","hungry","india","indians","mankind","mercenaries","middle-east","middle-east-conflict","military","minority","money","nations","needy","peace","people","political-science","politics","profit","reasoning","seduce","sociology","united","unity","unrest","war","warring","wealth","wiked","world"],"id":125678,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"There is no place for innocence on the battlefield.","author":"Jocelyn Murray","tags":["battlefield","innocence","innocence-lost","loss","war"],"id":125783,"author_id":"Jocelyn+Murray"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":30,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}