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  • On dispersive ground, therefore, fight not. On facile ground, halt not. On contentious ground, attack not. On open ground, do not try to block the enemy's way. On the ground of intersecting highways, join hands with your allies. On serious ground, gather in plunder. In difficult ground, keep steadily on the march. On hemmed-in ground, resort to stratagem. On desperate ground, fight.

    Art   Block   Military  
    Sun Tzu (2012). “The Art of War (The Classic Lionel Giles Translation)”, p.29, e-artnow
  • The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is no room left for freedom.

    Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press
  • If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.

    Men   Careers   Hiding  
  • He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.

    Wisdom   War   Fighting  
    Sun Tzu, Musashi Miyamoto, Inazo Nitobe (2016). “The Art of War - a Samurai Master Class”, p.13, Lulu.com
  • The skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting.

    Art   War   Fighting  
    Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.11, Lulu.com
  • Therefore the skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field.

    Art   War   Fighting  
    Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.11, Lulu.com
  • In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

    Country   Art   War  
    Sun Tzu, Sun Zi, Lionel Giles (2006). “The Art of War”, p.13, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
  • If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle

    Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.12, Lulu.com
  • The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.

    Wise   Wisdom   Stupid  
    Sun Tzu, General Press (2016). “The Art of War”, p.14, GENERAL PRESS
  • He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.

    War   Winning   Force  
    Sun Tzu, General Press (2016). “The Art of War”, p.14, GENERAL PRESS
  • Among the numerous stratagems by which pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard, there is scarcely one that meets with less success than affectation, or a perpetual disguise of the real character by fictitious appearances.

    Real   Character   Pride  
    Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.131
  • So, then, the best of the historian is subject to the poet; for whatsoever action or faction, whatsoever counsel, policy, or war-stratagem the historian is bound to recite, that may the poet, if he list, with his imitation make his own, beautifying it both for further teaching and more delighting, as it pleaseth him; having all, from Dante’s Heaven to his Hell, under the authority of his pen.

    War   Teaching   Heaven  
    Sir Philip Sidney, Thomas Babington Macaulay (2010). “English Essays: From Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay”, p.23, Cosimo, Inc.
  • War is always a struggle in which each contender tries to annihilate the other. Besides using force, they will have recourse to all possible tricks and stratagems to achieve the goal.

    War   Struggle   Goal  
    Che Guevara (2002). “Guerrilla Warfare”, p.54, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • For the wise man delights in establishing his merit, the brave man likes to show his courage in action, the covetous man is quick at seizing advantages, and the stupid man has no fear of death.

    Wise   Stupid   Men  
    Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.16, Xist Publishing
  • Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory: He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces. He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks. He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared. He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.

    Art   Military   War  
    Sun Tzu (2017). “The Art Of War - The Oldest Military Treatise in the World”, p.52, Youcanprint
  • There is no opposing brutal force to the stratagems of human reason.

    Reason   Force   Brutal  
    Sir Roger L'Estrange (1738). “Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections”, p.252
  • The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

    Music   Sweet   Men  
    'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 79
  • Thus the highest form of generalship is to balk the enemy's plans, the next best is to prevent the junction of the enemy's forces, the next in order is to attack the enemy's army in the field, and the worst policy of all is to besiege walled cities.

    Art   Military   War  
    Sun Tzu “Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Illustrated)”, Charles River Editors
  • There is nothing that is quite so reassuring in an awkward situation as knowing that one is well turned-out, and while I hope I am not so fainthearted as to require such stratagems, I am not so foolish as to overlook their value.

    Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline Stevermer (2014). “The Cecelia and Kate Novels: Sorcery & Cecelia, The Grand Tour, and The Mislaid Magician”, p.278, Open Road Media
  • It is necessary to be able to withstand all this, to agree to any and every sacrifice, and even - if need be - to resort to all sorts of stratagems, manoeuvres and illegal methods, to evasion and subterfuges in order to penetrate the trade unions, to remain in them, and to carry on Communist work in them at all costs.

    Sacrifice   Order   Able  
    "V.I. Lenin Selected Works" by Vladimir Lenin, vol. 10, (p. 95), 1938.
  • There are three ways in which a ruler can bring misfortune on his army: By commanding the army to advance or to retreat, being ignorant of the fact that it cannot obey. This is called hobbling the army. By attempting to govern an army in the same way as he administers a kingdom, being ignorant of the conditions which obtain in an army. This causes restlessness in the soldier's minds. By employing the officers of his army without discrimination, through ignorance of the military principle of adaptation to circumstances. This shakes the confidence of the soldiers.

    Art   Military   War  
    Sun Tzu (2010). “The Art of War”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.
  • The truth may often be carried about by those who themselves remain all unaware of it. They bear that which has weight and substance and yet for them has no name whereby it may be evoked or called forth. They go about ignorant of the true nature of their condition, such are the wiles of truth and such its stratagems.

    Truth   Often Is   Names  
    Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy: Picador Classic”, p.433, Pan Macmillan
  • If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.

    Sun Tzu (2010). “The Art of War”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.
  • The man that hath no music in himself

    'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 79
  • To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

    Peace   War   Fighting  
    Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.11, Lulu.com
  • The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may be infinitely more so by contemplating on his Condition.

    Unhappy   Relief   Lucky  
    Eliza Haywood (1999). “Selections from The Female Spectator”, p.60, Oxford University Press
  • Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

    War   Fighting   Army  
    Sun Tzu, Niccolo Machiavelli (2013). “The Complete Art of War”, p.22, Simon and Schuster
  • He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.

    Military   War   Winning  
    Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.16, Xist Publishing
  • Continuous present is all we have, and stream of consciousness - which in a novel is arguably just as artificial as the stilted dialogue that you get in most conventional novels. They're all stratagems to try to get closer to the texture of lived life.

  • [Yahya Khan ] had given me an appointment for the following day. And, days later, General Mohd Umar revealed to me that he'd resorted to this stratagem so that I'd stay in Dacca and "see the efficiency of the army." I give you my word of honor that all this is true.

    Army   Giving   Honor  
    Source: dhakadigest.net
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