History Quotes / CombatPragmatist

->''"Honor doesn't matter when it comes to fighting! The winner is the boss, the loser is the pet."''
-->--'''Jun Kamata''', ''Manga/ShonanJunaiGumi''

->'''Zuko:''' Uncle, you were unconscious. Azula did this to you... it was a surprise attack.\\
'''Iroh:''' Somehow, that's not so surprising.
-->--''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''

-->'''[[spoiler:Rio Kurotori]]''', ''Manga/MuhyoAndRoji''

-->-- '''Buster Scruggs''', ''Film/TheBalladofBusterScruggs''

-->-- '''Buster Scruggs''', ''Film/TheBalladofBusterScruggs}''

[[SpotOfTea They stopped at five o'clock every day to drink hot water...]]\\

->A supervillain always hides a hidden wound or a weak point.\\

-->-- '''Khara''', ''Literature/{{Endling}}''

->I saw an opening that screamed "attack"... so I did!

->There's no such thing as fair or unfair in battle. There is only victory or, in your case, defeat.

->Clearly a dirty move by Frieza, but effective, you have to give him that.

->All's fair in a fight to the death.

->Are you stupid? In a match to the death, there's no such thing as fair or foul!

->You know that above all I detest sentimental tripe like "Honor" or "Mercy." This is war! All that matters is victory!

->Do you think I'm a coward? There's nothing wrong with that. This is the strongest weapon of a seasoned warrior... it is called "cunning."

->There is no such thing as a fair fight. There's only the fight and who's left standing.

->You don't win fights by being a strong man or a clever boxer. You win by being more willing to permanently fuck up the other guy.

->When you're on your own, behind enemy lines, no artillery, no air strikes, no hope of an evac, you don't fight dirty. You do things that make dirty look good.

->Can you run? You should run... Seriously, you want to run... Okay. What do you know? What do you have? No, lose the swords. Sai trump swords... Flock tactics. She attacks, you back off. Don't engage until someone can lock down the sai with a chain, then go ''en masse''. (''{{beat}}, shocked expression'') ''En masse'' means '''everyone at once'''... I know you're a ninja but... Just do it! (''frustrated'') Listen to me: you have a choice... strictly following the ancient code of ninjutsu and being a dead ninja or going in like I say and ''maybe'' being alive ninja.

->Fighting isn't about glory. Fighting isn't about pride. This is the mistake that crazy scum like you always make. Fighting's about winning.

->I'm sorry, but you seem confused. Just 'cuz I let you land a few easy blows — that '''doesn't''' mean we're having a '''fair''' fight!

->Look — Here's the problem. You've done some bad things, but I'm really, really upset right now. So much so that, honestly, I don't trust myself. And if you attack me or I attack you... I will hurt you. I'll hurt you worse than you've ever been hurt in your whole life. I can carve you up as soon as look at you. I can break you, boil you, freeze you. I can do things you can't imagine. Things I can't imagine, until I have to. And then I'll improvise. Part of me is hoping you will attack. And part of me is praying — for your sake, and my own peace of mind — that you don't. It's up to you.

->...if on this mission you are forced into close quarters combat, understand you are most likely completely outmatched. Fight dirty. [[GoForTheEye Gouge eyes]]. [[GroinAttack Destroy...crotches]]. [[MadBomber Use ze explosives you like so much]].

->[[WideEyedIdealist Lieutenant]], if I ever see you behaving honorably or fairly [[OldSchoolDogfight up there]], I'll shoot you down myself. I've never met a [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI Hun]] who was prepared to give me a sporting chance, and I can assure you I don't indulge in the practice either. You see him before he sees you, you creep up behind him, you shoot him in the back — you run away. You ''survive'', do you understand me?"

->You young guys never learn. Equipment doesn't matter. Only thing that matters is a willingness to do what the other guy won't.

->In Skywatch training exercises, we focus more on the "martial" than the "art". "Art" suggests perfection of form, potential for exhibition at tournaments, and usually some spiritual element. We don't bother with that nonsense.\\
We train to do as much damage as possible in the shortest amount of time. We fight dirty.

->I don't believe in fair fights, Ms. Lewis. I believe in winning.

->Honor is all well and good for regulating your personal behavior, but trying to apply honor to warfare is the domain of the dead and the stupid.

->I knew what I had to do. She was making the same mistake the ABB thugs made in the alley. They treated me like another person when I had been fighting, as if I was concerned with protecting my body first and foremost, as if I wasn't willing to do anything it took to win. This wasn't some fucking prize fight. This was combat.

->You want to kill a man like me, you better stab me {{in the back}}. That's the catch. See, honorable men, they die hard. But they still die. It's men like me that survive and conquer.

->The point of warfare is not to die for your country, but make the other bastard die for ''his!''

->So, Lone Star, now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.

-->-- ''Tough Guys''

->You wanna know how you do it? Here's how, they pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way, and that's how you get Capone! Now do you want to do that? Are you ready to do that?

->No more chivalry. Now we fight like wolves.

'''John Spartan''': Yeah. But it worked. When a man like Pheonix has a gun to your head, ten seconds is nine and a half seconds longer than you live.

->I'm not a devious man by nature, but when you're unarmed, your tactics might gotta be downright Archimedian.

-->-- '''Richard Dunlop''', ''Behind Japanese Lines''

->Foolish boy, do you not understand what is at stake when you cross blades with another? You may win a hundred fights, a thousand, ten thousand, but you can only lose once!

->Fair fights are too easy to lose.

->It was just him and me. [[HonorBeforeReason He fought with honor]]. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn't fight with honor... I fought to win.

->Here's the thing: We don't give a shit about fairness here. We're soldiers. Soldiers do not give the other guy a sporting chance. Soldiers [[InTheBack shoot in the back]], [[DefensiveFeintTrap lay traps and ambushes]], [[InfauxmationDesk lie to the enemy]], and outnumber the other bastard every chance they get.

->Timothy, "fair" means I bring all my people home alive. Fuck the others.

->I fight with the weapons I have. It's the only sensible way.

->No such thing as fighting dirty, really, [[Literature/YoungBond Jimmy]]. There's just fighting to win. Use whatever you like, you can forget about rules; you’ve got to kick, scratch, bite, punch, claw with your nails... What you've got to do, see, is hurt your enemy as bad as you can as quick as you can, before he hurts you. Go for the soft bits, [[EyeScream the eyes]], nostrils, armpits, [[GuttedLikeAFish belly]], and, of course... well, you know [[GroinAttack where a bloke hurts worst]].

-> '''Khara''': Understand something. Your enemy is not helpless just because you've drawn blood. Your enemy is not helpless until he stops breathing. If you find yourself in a fight, that is your goal: not to frighten, not to wound. But to kill.
-->-- ''Literature/{{Endling}}''

->I have the honour to inform you, and at the same time to warn you, that no death in war is murder. The objective of warfare is the annihilation of the enemy by any means necessary.

->This isn't dueling pistols at dawn, this is war. You never wanna fight fair. You wanna sneak up behind your enemy, and club 'em over the head. You see, Scar understands that. And so do I. So, that's why I'm gonna kill him.

->One of the things a covert operative has to give up is the idea of a fair fight. Spies are not trained to fight fair. Spies are trained to win.

->I'd kill a man in a fair fight... or if I thought he was gonna ''start'' a fair fight...

->I say victory is better than honour.

->I concede it was a cheap shot, but it was the only one I could afford.

->[[DirtyCoward Cowardice]] is a term invented by those with no cunning.

-->-- ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''

->The first rule of [[GoodOldFisticuffs unarmed combat]] is: don't be unarmed.
-->-- '''Tau academy instructor''', ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''

->I'm warning you. I fight dirty!

->If you don't draw first, you don't get to draw at all.

->I don't pick fights I can't win.

->I don't care how it's done... All that matters is that you're dead!

->FUCK OFF! I don't need no martial arts. I... just gotta win! As long as I can do that... doesn't matter how the hell I do it!

->My friend Jack says “A fair fight means you didn’t prepare right.”

->Victory goes not to the loudest, but to the most effective.

->A beautiful loss is still a loss, and an ugly win is still a win!

->huh. always wondered why people never use their strongest attack first.

->"You want to try again; I didn't give you enough warning; you'd be fine if you were ready. Excuses like that have no value. Unfairness and deceit are superior. The difference between life and death."

->''Putting an arm around the girl's shoulders, you tell her about the Impish Vigilant – one of [[TaughtByExperience the School's]] more outspoken practitioners. The Vigilant protects suffrage campaigners – be they [[{{Golem}} clay]], criminal, or [[DeliberateValuesDissonance female]] – against the attentions of [[StateSec the Special Constables]]. She advocates [[HiddenWeapons concealed weapons]], steel-toed boots, and a cheerful absence of mercy. Her enemies think carefully before getting back up.''

->[[FragileSpeedster Top approach, double-strike to eye ridge, slide down between blinded target's rising arms, precision nerve strike to throat, secondary nerve strike to counter blood rage,]] [[GroinAttack quad-kick to bend target]], [[NeckSnap grip each side of skull, running leaping spinning neck-snap.]]

->You can wash away disgrace with results.

->I've noticed that smart characters are usually not very honorable, and honorable characters are usually [[HonorBeforeReason not very smart.]]

->I've found that only two things really matter. Power, in as great a quantity as you can muster, and style... and in a pinch, style can slide.

->Import'nt t'draw that fine line between fightin' dirty an' fightin' stupid.

-->-- Website/{{Cracked}}, [[http://www.cracked.com/article_15853_the-6-cutest-animals-that-can-still-destroy-you.html "The 6 Cutest Animals That Can Still Destroy You"]]

->If you think I won't shoot you in the back, you're mistaken. (''BLAM'')

->It's called cheating. Deal with it!

->The turning point came when I was invaded, but [[CombatCompliment the attacker bowed upon seeing me]], a gesture of recognition to mark [[WorthyOpponent a duel between equals]]... So while he was bowing, I ran up and stuck my halberd up his ass.

->"My former master always said that, in a fight, if given the opportunity, I should run the other guy over with my car."
-->--Redditor [[https://www.reddit.com/r/martialarts/comments/37pol2/as_long_as_the_martial_art_works/ kuroiryu146]]

->It's wrestling logic, I know. But if a guy beat me almost unto death with a bat covered in nails, I'd fuckin' kill him. I wouldn't grab a ''folding chair'' from a random passerby. I'd pretty much load up a shotgun filled with white phosphorous rounds and shove up it his ass. But that's just me.

->"Guys, if you're bothered by cheating, either loosen your moral code, or stop hinging the ''fate of the world ON DEATH MATCHES!''"

->Nature hath made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind as that, though there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body or of quicker mind than another, yet when all is reckoned together the difference between man and man is not so considerable...the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination or by confederacy with others that are in the same danger with himself.

->I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgiving by the hand, lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

->I don't know what Queensberry Rules are, but the Oscar Wilde Rule is to shoot on sight.

->When lives are on the line, there is no such thing as a fair fight.

->Those who live by the sword [[NeverBringAKnifeToAGunFight get shot by those who don't.]]

->'''Pat''': (on a debate on forums over who of the crew would win in a fist fight) Arguments are split between [[TheNapoleon myself]] and [[BlackAndNerdy Woolie]]. Woolie for obvious reasons as he is a [[ScaryBlackMan giant man]] compared to us, and is currently taking boxing classes.\\

-->-- '''Bankotsu''', ''Manga/{{InuYasha}}''

->'''Kenshiro:''' You call throwing dynamite around a martial art?
->'''Jackal:''' Hey, as long as it works.

--> ''{{ComicBook/Asterix}} and the Britons''

-->-- '''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}''', ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl2005 Way of the World]]''

->Huh. Always wondered why people never use their strongest attack first.
-->--'''[[spoiler:Sans the Skeleton]]''', ''Videogame/{{Undertale}}''

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