#victor

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#details #distinguish #hard #hear #once

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#detail #distinguish #longer #told #victory

When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters. ↗

— George Savile

#contend #get #liberty #masters #new

I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water. ↗

— John Sayles

#america #dead #defeats #feel #final

But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#cannot #carried #could #days #elude

So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people. Let us have a moral victory that can shine as a light to all nations. ↗

— Adam Schiff

#call #deliberate #genocide #let us #light

Then came a big strike. About 100 girls went out. The result was a victory, which netted us - I mean the girls - $2 increase in our wages on the average. ↗

— Rose Schneiderman

#average #big #came #i #increase

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless. ↗

— Robert H. Schuller

#failure #meaningless #possibility #then #victory

The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#object #preservation #victory #war

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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