#battle

There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut when you're playing. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#battle #cut #get #having #head

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this. ↗

— Karl Marx

#does #fight #history #immense #living

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle. ↗

— Rollo May

#courage #easier #freedom #greater #inner

One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#cannot #column #falling #his #hold

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do. ↗

— Benito Mussolini

#even #folded #great #hands #history

Meantime the clang of the bows and the shouts of the combatants mixed fearfully with the sound of the trumpets, and drowned the groans of those who fell, and lay rolling defenceless beneath the feet of the horses. The splendid armour of the combatants was now defaced with dust and blood, and gave way at every stroke of the sword and battle-axe. The gay plumage, shorn from the crests, drifted upon the breeze like snowflakes. All that was beautiful in the martial array had disappeared, and what was now visibke was only calculated to awaken terror or compassion. ↗

— Walter Scott

#description #beauty

Now the true soldiers of Christ must always be prepared to do battle for the truth, and must never, so far as lies with them, allow false convictions to creep in. ↗

— Origen

#always #battle #be prepared #christ #convictions

During the last war when there was a market for everything that could be produced, the production capacity of Canada and the United States, which were outside the battle area, increased one hundred percent. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#battle #canada #capacity #could #during

Fulfill - you can far more than fulfill - the brightest anticipations of those who, in the name of human freedom, and in the face of threats that have ripened into terrible realities since, fought that battle which placed you where you now stand. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#battle #brightest #face #far #fought

Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote! ↗

— Wilfred Owen

#do you know #hold #i #keats #know