I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor, dumb bastard die for his country.
-misattributed (in the movie) to General George S Patton but very much the sort of thing that hard chargin’ sonofabitch might have said judging by the other quotes on the page.
We love death more than you love life!
- this (and many variants) are the quote in trade of jihadis.
Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.
- Golda Meier (disputed).
What can men do against such reckless hate?
- King Theoden, The Lord of The Rings.
This war is not just asymmetrical because we have MQ-9 Reapers and the loonies in the boonies are concocting explosives in granny’s poss tub but in attitude, in principle. Aragorn of course could give Theoden an answer but what is the answer now?