Pawn Quotes
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What we call worldliness simply consists of such people who, if one may so express it, pawn themselves to the world.
Soren Kierkegaard— The Sickness unto Death (1849, pg. 65)
No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
Edmund Burke— Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790).
I'm not the pawn to your kingI'm not your world on a stringI'm not anyone you'll beatI'm not anything
st. vincent— "Now, Now"
We will never be a pawn in someone else's game. We will always be Afghanistan.
ahmad shah massoud— Attributed in Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda (2005) by Gary Berntsen and Ralph Pezzullo
Chess is not Mathematics, where ten is always more than one; in chess the King with a pawn can beat opponent's King with all pieces if they are placed badly.
ashot nadanian— Interview at S'pore Chess News, 23 August 2010
[Lloyd George] said that Harding 's speech on American naval aspirations made him feel that he would pawn his shirt rather than allow America to dominate the seas. If this was to be the outcome of the League of Nations propaganda, he was sorry for the world and in particular for America.
david lloyd george— Lord Riddell's diary entry (1 January 1921), J. M. McEwen (ed.), The Riddell Diaries 1908-1923 (London: The Athlone Press, 1986), p. 332.
To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.
robert charles wilson— The Fields of Abraham (p. 37)
Today, America poses a threat to peace and security in the world. Therefore, the slogan "Death to America" is no longer used only by our people. Today, you see throughout the world people setting fire to the effigy of the American president and chanting the slogan "Death to America." This is because of the American regime's exaggerated demands, its arrogance, its vanity, and its desire to control, and because it is a pawn in the hands of the Zionists."
— March 21, 2006 speech (Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei)
I have a weakness for any piece in excess of my opponent's numbers - from pawn to queen.
tigran petrosian— Quoted in Vik L Vasilev, "Tigran Petrosian His Life and Games" (Batsford, London, 1974) p.166.
We will never be a pawn in someone else's game. We will always be Afghanistan.
— Ahmad Shah Massoud in Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda (2005) by Gary Berntsen and Ralph Pezzullo
