„A radish will never stand in the way of victory.“
As quoted in M*A*S*H, Season 3, Episode 1, "The General Flipped At Dawn"; this seems to be a jocular fabrication.
Misattributed
Ferdinand Foch2
Marschall von Frankreich im Ersten Weltkrieg 1851 - 1929Ähnliche Zitate
„We cannot kill our way to victory.“
— Michael Mullen U.S. Navy admiral and 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff 1946
On NATO in Afghanistan, Washington, D.C., 11 September 2008 http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2008/09/2008910163836871959.html.
— Harry Truman American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953) 1884 - 1972
Quelle: Report on the Potsdam Conference (1945)
Kontext: Our victory in Europe was more than a victory of arms.
It was a victory of one way of life over another. It was a victory of an ideal founded on the rights of the common man, on the dignity of the human being, on the conception of the State as the servant — and not the master — of its people.
A free people showed that it was able to defeat professional soldiers whose only moral arms were obedience and the worship of force.
We tell ourselves that we have emerged from this war the most powerful nation in the world — the most powerful nation, perhaps, in all history. That is true, but not in the sense some of us believe it to be true.
The war has shown us that we have tremendous resources to make all the materials for war. It has shown us that we have skillful workers and managers and able generals, and a brave people capable of bearing arms.
All these things we knew before.
The new thing — the thing which we had not known — the thing we have learned now and should never forget, is this: that a society of self-governing men is more powerful, more enduring, more creative than any other kind of society, however disciplined, however centralized.
„The United States has never entered a serious war, and has never been victorious.“
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 6th President of the Islamic Republic of Iran 1956
September 21, 2010 interview http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/09/ahmadinejad-when-a-war-starts-it-knows-no-limits/63312/
2010
„The best way to spell victory? K-I-L-L.“
— Gena Showalter American writer 1975
Quelle: The Darkest Surrender
„Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein, we never had a defeat.“
— Winston S. Churchill, buch The Second World War
The Second World War, Volume IV : The Hinge of Fate (1951) Chapter 33 (The Battle of Alamein)
BBC News story on the 60th anniversary of Alamein http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2347801.stm.
The Second World War (1939–1945)
„Never plan for victory and defeat in your mind at the same time.“
— Lewis Pugh Environmental campaigner, maritime lawyer and endurance swimmer 1969
p 189
21 Yaks And A Speedo (2013)
— Benjamin Franklin American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, a… 1706 - 1790
— Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
Quelle: How to Win Friends and Influence People
— Agnes Martin American artist 1912 - 2004
her candid, weather-beaten face darkens abruptly
Mary Lance, in 'With My Back to the World' a documentary made in 2002; as quoted by Olivia Laing,
Martin claimed she could remember the exact moment of her birth. She had entered the world, she tells Lance, 'as a small figure with a little sword'
after 2000
„The way to get the most out of a victory is to follow it with another that makes it look small.“
— Henry S. Haskins 1875 - 1957
Quelle: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 80
„We must fight our way to victory on a sea of blood and a horizon of fire.“
— Gamal Abdel Nasser second president of Egypt 1918 - 1970
As quoted in the Wall Street Journal (14 November 1969)
„You'll never know how close you are to victory if you give up.“
— Jay Samit American businessman 1961
Quelle: Disrupt You! (2015), p.201
— Galeazzo Ciano Italian politician 1903 - 1944
Galeazzo Ciano (1946) The Ciano Diaries, 1939-1943. Milan: Rizzoli. p. 594; Original cited in: Emerging Infectious diseases. Vol 2, Nr 1, Jan.-March 1996. p. 61
Original: Come sempre, la vittoria trova cento padri, e nessuno vuole riconoscere l'insuccesso.
„He who stands upon his own strength will never stand.“
— Thomas Brooks English Puritan 1608 - 1680
Quelle: Quotes from secondary sources, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, 1895, P. 531.
— Theodore Dalrymple English doctor and writer 1949
How—and How Not—to Love Mankind http://www.city-journal.org/html/11_3_urbanities-how_and_how_no.html (Summer 2001).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)
— John D. MacDonald writer from the United States 1916 - 1986
Travis McGee series, A Deadly Shade of Gold (1965)
Kontext: I think there is some kind of divine order in the universe. Every leaf on every tree in the world is unique. As far as we can see, there are other galaxies, all slowly spinning, numerous as the leaves in the forest. In an infinite number of planets, there has to be an infinite number with life forms on them. Maybe this planet is one of the discarded mistakes. Maybe it's one of the victories. We'll never know.
— David Cay Johnston Investigative journalist and author 1948
David Cay Johnston; How The One Percent Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (Jun 23, 2009)
