B. H. Liddell Hart

Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

Darwin recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of taxonomic categories in particular.

The battles after the wars are over can be the toughest; there's no longer the public interest that accompanies, for good and for ill, the start of combat.