Combat Quotes

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.

~ Suzy Kassem

The Army might screw you and your girlfriend might dump you and the enemy might kill you, but the shared commitment to safeguard one another’s lives is unnegotiable and only deepens with time. The willingness to die for another person is a form of love that even religions fail to inspire, and the experience of it changes a person profoundly.

~ Sebastian Junger

War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.

~ Sebastian Junger

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

~ Margaret Mead

As a civilian, I know nothing about combat, the Marine Corps experience or modern man's struggle adjusting to peace after war. I only know what's been shared with me; confidences I would never betray, nor use as details in a novel.

~ Tiffany Madison

The army consists of the first infantry division and eight million replacements.

~ Sebastian Junger

It should surprise no one that modern soldiers return home just as conflicted and detached as previous generations. The difference is that in the age of vapid American decadence, their simpler fundamental values are largely irrelevant to we civilians.

~ Tiffany Madison

...the experience of battle forever divides those who talk of nothing else but its prospect from those who talk of everything else but its memory.

~ James D. Hornfischer

War is unlike life. It's a denial of everything you learn life is. And that's why when you get finished with it, you see that if offers no lessons that can't be bettered learned in civilian life. You are exposed to horrors you would sooner forget.

~ Robert Graff

I left a piece of my soul that will always rightfully belong in the desert.

~ M.b. Dallocchio

Stripped to its essence, combat is a series of quick decisions and rather precise actions carried out in concert with ten or twelve other men. In that sense it’s much more like football than, say, like a gang fight. The unit that choreographs their actions best usually wins. They might take casualties, but they win. That choreography—you lay down fire while I run forward, then I cover you while you move your team up—is so powerful that it can overcome enormous tactical deficits. There is choreography for storming Omaha Beach, for taking out a pillbox bunker, and for surviving an L-shaped ambush at night on the Gatigal. The choreography always requires that each man make decisions based not on what’s best for him, but on what’s best for the group. If everyone does that, most of the group survives. If no one does, most of the group dies. That, in essence, is combat.

~ Sebastian Junger

Most firefights go by so fast that acts of bravery or cowardice are more or less spontaneous. Soldiers might live the rest of their lives regretting a decision that they don’t even remember making, they might receive a medal for doing something that was over before they even knew they were doing it.

~ Sebastian Junger

Aside from clinically-diagnosed psychopaths, I have not met one person in war who thoroughly enjoyed killing. If someone ended up bragging over a kill, it was safe to assume that their story was mere fabrication or that they were one bad day away from an inpatient psychiatric ward. No matter how much someone may appear to deserve to be killed, something dies within us when we kill. It's contradictory, the antithesis of our species survival instinct.

~ M.b. Dallocchio

The problem is that it's hard to aim a rifle when your heart is pounding, which points to an irony of modern combat: it does extraordinarily violent things to the human body but requires almost dead calm to execute well.

~ Sebastian Junger

You can keep your paper promisesand all your worldly treasures.But you cannot buy peace of mindor escape from the headstone garden.Lyrics from Headstone Garden by the Troubled Land Band at the Independence Day celebration 12 years after the impact that destroyed civilization.

~ Raymond Dean White

Bombs and bullets don't discriminate.

~ Sophie Masson

This country has not seen and probably will never know the true level of sacrifice of our veterans. As a civilian I owe an unpayable debt to all our military. Going forward let’s not send our servicemen and women off to war or conflict zones unless it is overwhelmingly justifiable and on moral high ground. The men of WWII were the greatest generation, perhaps Korea the forgotten, Vietnam the trampled, Cold War unsung and Iraqi Freedom and Afghanistan vets underestimated. Every generation has proved itself to be worthy to stand up to the precedent of the greatest generation. Going back to the Revolution American soldiers have been the best in the world. Let’s all take a remembrance for all veterans who served or are serving, peace time or wartime and gone or still with us. 11/11/16 May God Bless America and All Veterans.

~ Thomas M Smith

Condemning war has not curbed armed conflict. Religion and education did not eliminate war. Warfare did not terminate more wars. Armed combat simply breeds endless wars.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

He relaxed into the dirt, it was all right, he was infantry and the dirt was home. He felt warm liquid all over his left thigh and wondered if he’d peed himself, it didn’t matter, none of it mattered, the stars were out in the blackness overhead and that was where he was going.

~ Henry V. O'neil

War comes home— invades it, literally— and every day is another combat. Only, there’s nothing available, nothing real to fight. And you never know when the next attack will come, only from whom it will come.

~ Cristiane Serruya

Once, back home, I decided to count how many days out of my twenty months in Afghanistan I’d been on combat missions. 217 days. And I’m still paying the price for every one of those days.

~ Vladislav Tamarov

You are silent now who once stood on battlefields ravaged by destruction unimaginable, holding in those desperate places the line of freedom for others you would never know, and who would never know you. And being one of those you never knew, I would give all I have to clasp your hand one single time, look into eyes that witnessed the bloodied carnage that results when freedom refuses to bow to chains of any kind, and simply say 'thank you.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Life did not take over the world by combat,but by networking.

~ Lynn Margulis

Today, more than 23 million veterans walk among us. Nearly 3 million receive disability compensation, and many more owe their lives to an anonymous corpsman or medic. Millions of Americans and their families are profoundly grateful.

~ Scott Mcgaugh

I am tired of the sickening sight of the battlefield with its mangled corpses & poor suffering wounded. Victory has no charms for men when purchased at such cost.

~ George Mcclellandin Blue

There are 2 kinds of fighters: those who fight because they hate, and those who fight because they love.

~ Criss Jami

Better than money and fame, teaching martial arts to your children; giving them your time and confidence, is the best inheritance

~ Soke Behzad Ahmadi

Patience and Forgiveness are at the heart of A warrior's success, they help engender necessary intervals of space and time to evaluate difficult encounters.

~ Soke Behzad Ahmadi

A karate practitioner should possess two things : wicked hands, and Buddha's heart

~ Soke Behzad Ahmadi

The weakest ones are the wickedest cruel When the strongest ones in gentleness rule!

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

True Martial Arts is universal, simple and practical. Anything else is too complex to be used in combat.

~ Soke Behzad Ahmadi

An open mind, is the best weapon, in the fight between light and darkness

~ Soke Behzad Ahmadi

Isolation of catastrophic experiences. Dissociation may function to seal off overwhelming trauma into a compartmentalized area of conscious until the person is better able to integrate it into mainstream consciousness. The function of dissociation is particularly common in survivors of combat, political torture, or natural or transportation disasters.

~ Marlene Steinberg

Fighting physically signifies spiritual weakness.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The warrior guided by the spirit serves humanity, the warrior without, serves the ego

~ Soke Behzad Ahmadi

. . . the sole aim of Okinawa Karate is to teach A person to handle violence and violent individuals; whether it is tactile, mental or spiritual

~ Soke Behzad Ahmadi

. . . most martial artists want to know how A technique is done, A seasoned Sensei will demonstrate why

~ Soke Behzad Ahmadi

They Served...reliving memoriesthat will not diegiving their allfor you and I -friends takenlives shaken...

~ Muse

Any self-defense situation has the potential to quickly become A 'life and death' situation, therefore your practice of martial arts should be undertaken, as if your very life depends on it . . .

~ Soke Behzad Ahmadi

The purpose of Karate is to guide you out of trouble by any means necessary, both in actual combat and in life

~ Soke Behzad Ahmadi