Vo Nguyen Giap quotes

Any forces that would impose their will on other nations will certainly face defeat.
-- Vo Nguyen Giap

#War #Faces #Defeat

My fighting gospel is T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom. I am never without it.
-- Vo Nguyen Giap

#Fighting #Pillars #Seven

Do not fear the enemy, for they can take only your life. Fear the media far more, for they will destroy your honour.
-- Vo Nguyen Giap

#Media #Enemy #Do Not Fear

Confuse the enemy. Keep him in the dark on your intentions. Sometimes what seems a victory isn't really a victory and sometimes a defeat isn't really a defeat. Whether in attacking, counterattacking, or defensive tactics, the idea of attacking should remain central, to always keep the initiative.
-- Vo Nguyen Giap

#Dark #Ideas #Enemy

All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.

Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.

Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.

It doesn't have to be the Grand Canyon, it could be a city street, it could be the face of another human being - Everything is full of wonder.

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

Defeat is not worth thinking about.

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.