Line #66 Quotes/ArmchairMilitary


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3	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
4	->''You scum sit back and safely watch the battlefield as if it were some kind of spectator sport. You don't know'' anything ''about sacrifice and yet you're the first to talk about its necessity!''
5	-->-- '''[[FourStarBadass Major General]] [[FrontlineGeneral Olivier Mira Armstrong]]''', ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemistBrotherhood''
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8	[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
9	->''"The war was being run by a bunch of four-star clowns who were gonna end up giving the whole circus away."''
10	-->-- '''Willard''', ''Film/ApocalypseNow''
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12	->''"The Rebs have decided that bridge is the key to this whole area. Stupid, useless bridge! Flyspeck on Headquarters' maps. Headquarters has declared we must take that ridiculous flyspeck. Even if all of us are killed. Otherwise the key'll get rusty and just be a spot on the wall."''
13	-->-- '''Union Captain''', ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly''
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15	->'''Col. Pluskat:''' (''[[StormingTheBeaches at Normandy]]'') The invasion's come! There must be five thousand ships out there!\
16	'''Lt. Col. Ocker:''' (''miles away, sipping coffee'') Don't be ridiculous, Pluskat: the Allies don't have half that many.\
17	'''Pluskat:''' Well, damn it! Come and look for yourself!\
18	'''Ocker:''' (''laughing'') Pluskat, just where are those ships heading?\
19	'''Pluskat:''' STRAIGHT FOR ME!
20	-->-- ''Film/TheLongestDay''
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23	[[folder:Literature]]
24	->''"You take it from me, we are losing the war because we can salute too well."''
25	-->-- '''Erich Maria Remarque''', ''Literature/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront''
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27	->"Sack of wine, you with your cur's eyes and your antelope heart! You've never had the kidney to buckle on armor among the troops, or make a sortie with picked men--oh, no; that way death might lie. Safer, by god, in the middle of the army--is it not?--to commandeer the prize of any man who stands up to you!"
28	-->-- '''Achilles''', to '''Agamemnon''', Creator/{{Homer}}'s ''Literature/TheIliad'' (trans. Robert Fitzgerald)
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30	->"Portly gentlemen whose service has been long in the land of swivel chairs..."
31	-->-- ''[[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=pTkAAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA12-PA50&lpg=RA12-PA50&dq=PHTQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwijq4CF1fLyAhXhlEsFHfjaCMIQ6AF6BAgmEAM#v=onepage&q=swivel&f=false The Marines' Magazine]]''
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34	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
35	->'''Travers''': We're not in the business of "fair," Miss Summers; we're fighting a war.\
36	'''Giles''': You're ''waging'' a war. ''She's'' fighting it. There is a difference.
37	-->--''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''
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39	->'''Gen. Lefcourt''': We understand that fully a third of their population is dedicated to warfare.\
40	'''Londo Mollari''': They have a [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy warrior caste]]! Not exactly the same thing, hm?\
41	'''Lefcourt''': Semantics. We need to know all we can about them.\
42	'''Londo''': Then send one ship. ''One'' ship only. Anything more could perceived as a threat. And if that were to happen, well, I assure you: [[BullyingADragon they would never return home.]]\
43	'''Lefcourt''': My people can handle themselves. We took care of the Dilgar, we can take care of the Minbari!\
44	'''Londo''': Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you.
45	-->-- ''Series/BabylonFive'', [[Film/BabylonFiveInTheBeginning "In the Beginning"]]
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47	->'''Worf''': He says that you struck his name from an officers list because his family comes from the Ketha lowlands.\
48	'''Kor''': Did I? [[ButForMeItWasTuesday I don't recall.]] Of course, there were so many officer lists. I suppose it's possible.\
49	'''Worf''': It is an unworthy reason to bar a man from serving the Empire.\
50	'''Kor''': Worf, you've been living among this democratic rabble for too long.
51	-->-- ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS07E07OnceMoreUntoTheBreach "Once More Into the Breach"]]
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54	[[folder:Music]]
55	->''They tell us that the Admiral\
56	Is as nice as he can be\
57	But we never see the Admiral\
58	Because the Admiral has never been to sea''
59	-->-- '''Irving Berlin''', "We Saw the Sea"
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61	->''Come you masters of war\
62	You that build all the guns\
63	You that build the death planes\
64	You that build all the bombs\
65	You that hide behind walls\
66	You that hide behind desks\
67	I just want you to know\
68	I can see through your masks''
69	-->-- '''Music/BobDylan''', "Masters of War"
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71	->''How is it that the only ones responsible for making this mess\
72	Got their sorry asses stapled to a goddamn desk?''
73	-->-- '''Music/TomWaits''', "Hell Broke Luce"
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75	->''Forward he cried, from the rear\
76	And the front rank died\
77	And General sat and the lines on the map\
78	Moved from side to side''
79	-->-- '''Music/PinkFloyd''', [[Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon "Us and Them"]]
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82	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
83	->''"A war waged by committee is a war already lost."''
84	-->-- '''Ecclesiarch Sebastian Thor''', ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''
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87	[[folder:Theatre]]
88	->''"How did ''you'' get in the Navy? How did ''you'' get on our side? You ignorant, arrogant, ambitious--! Keeping sixty-two men in prison 'cause you got [[CargoShip a palm tree]] for the work ''they'' did. I don't know which I hate worse, you or that ''other'' [[YesMan malignant growth]] that stands outside the door."''
89	-->-- '''Doug Roberts''', ''Theatre/MisterRoberts'' (1955)
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92	[[folder:Video Games]]
93	->'''Otacon''': That ship's been transmitting a live video feed via military satellite uplink for a while now.\
94	'''Snake''': So there's some brass out there, smacking their lips over this little home movie... Wherever it is, it must be a warm, dry office with hot coffee on tap.\
95	'''Otacon''': A far cry from that tanker, huh? That's what happens when the battlefield has a Revolution in Military Affairs.
96	-->-- ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty''
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98	->This leader commands from the rear, preferably as far away from the frontlines as possible to avoid exposure to '[[DirtyCoward unnecessary dangers]]'.
99	-->--Flavor text for '''Armchair Commander,''' ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}''
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103	[[folder:Web Original]]
104	->The Neocon’s idea of war is like [[KnowNothingKnowItAll the virgin's idea of sex]]. Neocons are utterly, totally, and completely ignorant of war and the military. No Neocon has ever served in the military, and veterans are categorically excluded from being called a Neocon. Neocons used their wealth and privilege to avoid their generation's war, yet feel they are qualified experts on the subject.
105	-->-- ''Website/UrbanDictionary''
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108	[[folder:Real Life]]
109	->''I confess, without shame, I am sick and tired of fighting -- its glory is all moonshine; even success the most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies, with the anguish and lamentations of distant families, appealing to me for sons, husbands and fathers...'tis only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated...that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation.''
110	-->-- '''General William Tecumseh Sherman'''
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112	->''His light blue, slightly watery eyes which I see before me give no hint that this man once stood next to a telephone, with maps, sketches, pencils and aide-de-camps before him, and shouted an order into the mouthpiece with an excited voice. "Will you see to it...!" the voice said. Then he hung up. The following morning 8,472 men fell on our side. They got their mass grave. The general got a decoration.''
113	-->-- '''Kurt Tucholsky''', ''Der General im Salon'' (1924)
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115	->''Every new publication makes the image of this weakling, coward, domineering brute and braggart, this posing dunce who plunged Germany into misfortune even more repugnant. There is not a single trait in him that could arouse sympathy or pity; he is entirely contemptible.''
116	-->--'''Harry Graf Kessler''' on Kaiser Wilhelm II
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118	->''Comrade Merklov, you can send your "source" from the headquarters of the German air force [[YourMom to his fucking mother]]. He is not a source, but a dis-informant.''
119	-->--'''UsefulNotes/JosephStalin''' responding to a dispatch from the front warning that the Germans were going to invade
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121	->''"I fired him because he wouldn't respect the authority of the president. That's the answer to that. I didn't fire him because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was, but that's not against the law for generals. If it was, half to three-quarters of them would be in jail."''
122	-->--'''UsefulNotes/HarrySTruman''' on UsefulNotes/DouglasMacArthur
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124	->''"We were damned lucky we didn't blow up the world -- and no thanks to the political or military leadership of this country."''
125	-->-- '''Maj. Don Clawson''', B-52 pilot during the Cuban Missile Crisis
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127	->''"The politicians and officials sit home pontificating about great principles and issues, make the decisions, and dine with their wives and families, while the brave and the young die."''
128	-->-- '''UsefulNotes/RobertFKennedy''', in his memoir on the Cuban Missile Crisis
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130	->''"It's not the generals, it's the civilians who authorize and organize the worst war crimes."''
131	-->-- '''Noam Chomsky'''
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133	->"Odd," said a fellow veteran of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, "that [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush Bush]] and Cheney are so delighted to put us to war when, during [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam]], they were what we both used to call draft dodgers." But then we agreed that in our politics the sissies are always cheerleading the real guys to go give their lives. Real soldiers like UsefulNotes/ColinPowell are less gung-ho.
134	-->-- '''Creator/GoreVidal''', ''Dreaming War''
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136	->The president liked generals. The more fruit salad they wore, the better....What the president did not like was ''listening'' to generals, who, for the most part, were skilled in the new Army jargon of [=PowerPoint=], data dumps, [=McKinsey=]-like presentations. One of the things that endeared Flynn to the president was the fact that Flynn, quite the conspiracist and drama queen, had good storytelling sense.
137	-->--'''Michael Wolffe''' on UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump and Michael Flynn, ''Fire and Fury''
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140	->''All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.''
141	-->--'''Creator/GeorgeOrwell''', ''Diaries, 1938-1942''
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