Tactics Quotes
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We must realize that today's Establishment is the New George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution.
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More Tactics Quotes
Some time ago, in an interview that turned towards the Theatre, I suggested that 'Pubic hair is not an adequate substitute for wit'. My point now is that depending upon shock tactics is easy, whereas writing a good play is difficult.
— 1974 Outcries and Asides,'Danger of ShockTactics'.
The kind of middle-class mentality which actuates both those responsible for strategy and government has little knowledge of the new psychology and organizing ability of the totalitarian States. The forces we are fighting are governed neither by the old strategy nor follow the old tactics.
Ernest Bevin— "Complacent Conduct of the War", The Times, 3 May 1940, p. 3.
— Speech at Stoke-on-Trent, 1 May 1940.
If Apple has a flaw, it's the inability of the company to crush competition using the kind of aggressive tactics that companies like Microsoft and Intel have always applied.
john c. dvorak— "Apple's Swan Song" in PC Magazine (14 January 2013)
The more visible signs of protest are gone, but I think there is a realization that the tactics of the late sixties are not sufficient to meet the challenges of the seventies.
coretta scott king— As quoted in The Quotable Woman (1978) by Elaine Partnow, p. 390
Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.
ingrid newkirk— US News & World Report, 2002April 8
Since co-founding People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals 21 years ago, Ingrid Newkirk has emerged as one of the shining lights of the animal rights movement. Through the use of shock tactics and a continuing series of controversial media campaigns, Newkirk and PETA have been able to effect change where other animal rights activists have failed miserably. Although criticized at one point or another by seemingly everybody under the sun, PETA nevertheless has a world-wide membership of over 300,000 activists and continues to be one of the most visible animal rights organizations in the world.
ingrid newkirk— Chris Barry, Montreal Mirror [20]
Another longstanding foreign policy flaw is the degree to which special interests dictate the way in which the "national interest" as a whole is defined and pursued.... America's important historic relationship with Israel has often led foreign policy decision-makers to defer reflexively to Israeli security assessments, and to replicate Israeli tactics, which, as the war in Lebanon last summer demonstrated, can turn out to be counter-productive.
samantha power— "Samantha Power on U.S. Foreign Policy", an interview with in Molly Lanzarotta, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government (14 March 2007)
An estimated 5,000 economic, political, and religious groups operate in the United States alone at any given time, with 2.5 million members. Over the last ten years, cults have used tactics of coercive mind control to negatively impact an estimated 20 million victims in the last ten years. Worldwide figures are even greater.
margaret singer— Dr. Margaret Singer, Cults in Our Midst
Self-projection is, more often than not, the move of the minor craftsman, of the tactics of the hour whose inherent weakness is, precisely, that of originality.
George Steiner— Ch. 3 (p. 170)
Right or wrong, what I also saw was that you made an enemy, and left him alive behind you. Great charity. Bad tactics.
lois mcmaster bujold— p. 60 (Cryoburn (2010))
Dr. Roboy, in Litvak’s measured view, had a vice common to believers: He was all strategy and no tactics. He was prone to move for the sake of moving, too focused on the goal to bother with the intervening sequence.
michael chabon— Chapter 39 (The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007))
In tactics, action is the governing rule of war.
Ferdinand Foch— p. 79 (Precepts and Judgments (1919))
This bill reminds me of the tactics of the former Soviet Union and we know how successful that was.
virginia foxx— Referring to HR 2749: Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009Quoted in Wolfe, Kathryn A. (July 30, 2009). "House Passes Sweeping Food Safety Bill". Congressional Quarterly. Retrieved on 2009-11-14.
Jack stood up as he said this, the bloodied knife in his hand. The two boys faced each other. There was the brilliant world of hunting, tactics, fierce exhilaration, skill; and there was the world of longing and baffled common-sense.
william golding— Ch. 4: Painted Faces and Long Hair
To have peace and not war, the drift toward a war economy, as facilitated by the moves and the demands of the sophisticated conservatives, must be stopped; to have peace without slump, the tactics and policies of the practical right must be overcome. The political and economic power of both must be broken. The power of these giants of main drift is both economically and politically anchored; both unions and an independent labor party are needed to struggle effective.
c. wright mills— The New Men of Power (1948).
I owe most to Georges Sorel. This master of syndicalism by his rough theories of revolutionary tactics has contributed most to form the discipline, energy and power of the fascist cohorts.
benito mussolini— Quoted in The New Inquistions by Arthur Versluis
The war with Japan had been enacted in the game rooms at the War College by so many people and in so many different ways that nothing that happened during the war was a surprise absolutely nothing except the kamikaze tactics toward the end of the war. We had not visualized these.
chester w. nimitz— Writing the president of the US Naval War College shortly after World War II. Quoted by Donald C. Winter, Secretary of the Navy]
The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These people manipulate the worm, customizing its payload to establish quisling dictatorships in its shadow, and the horrors these gauleiters invent in its service are far worse than the crude but direct tactics the original worm used.
charles stross— Glasshouse, Chapter 12: “Bag” (2006, pg. 210)
We are definitely accusing Glenn Beck of using questionable tactics in order to spread his message and garner higher ratings. You see, we believe Beck uses tactics like the top part of this site ... and he uses them with no disclaimers, with all apparent seriousness.
— Disclaimer on website; cited in — Matyszczyk, Chris (October 24, 2009). "Glenn Beck's legal action against site that parodies, um, Glenn Beck". CNET News (CBS Interactive Inc.). Retrieved on 2009-10-25.
As for why it's not particularly smart -- whether he wins or loses -- is because he just called a whole bunch of attention to some silly internet meme that clearly wants attention. Beck would have been better off just ignoring it. Instead, in legitimizing it by trying to take it down, many more people become aware of the meme -- and may start calling attention to situations where Beck (and others) make use of such tactics.
— Masnick, Michael (September 8, 2009). "Glenn Beck Didn't Rape And Murder Anyone... But He Doesn't Want Websites Discussing It". Techdirt (www.techdirt.com). Retrieved on 2009-10-04.
All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.
SunTzu— 6th c. bc The Art of War Ch. 6
An estimated 5,000 economic, political, and religious groups operate in the United States alone at any given time, with 2.5 million members. Over the last ten years, cults have used tactics of coercive mind control to negatively impact an estimated 20 million victims in the last ten years. Worldwide figures are even greater.
— Margaret Singer (1997) Cults in Our Midst; cited in Jeff Spanke (2008) Second Hand Out. p. 251
Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation.
— Max Euwe, in Henry C. (Sandy) Waters III Sales - What A Concept!: A Guidebook for Sales Process Performance Improvement, Lulu.com, 2011, p.11
There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another, This conception is a potent menace to social regeneration. All human experience teaches that methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim. The means employed become, through individual habit and social practice, part and parcel of the final purpose; they influence it, modify it, and presently the aims and means become identical.
— Emma Goldman (1923) My Disillusionment with Russia
[open source software] is long-term credible ... FUD tactics can not [ sic ] be used to combat it.
— Vinod Valloppillil, Microsoft Program Manager, "Open Source Software: A (New?) Development Methodology", 1998
The new cooperation [between Hezbollah and al-Qaeda] ... includes coordination on explosives and tactics training, money laundering, weapons smuggling and acquiring forged documents, according to knowledgeable sources. This new alliance, even if informal, has greatly concerned U.S. officials in Washington and intelligence operatives abroad who believe the assets and organization of Hezbollah's formidable militant wing will enable a hobbled al Qaeda network to increase its ability to launch attacks against American targets.
— From the Washington Post; Priest, Dana and Douglas Farah. "Terror Alliance Has U.S. Worried." 30 June 2002. 18 September 2006.
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
— Probably apocryphal. This quotation does not appear in any print translation of Sun Tzu. The first citation in Google Books is from 2002; no citation in Google Books occurs in a translation of Sun Tzu.
President Trump is, some ways, the personification of a new Bolshevism of the Right, where the ends justify the means and acceptable tactics include lies and smears and the exploitation of what Lenin called 'useful idiots.'
Simon Sebag Montefiore
tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.
fred perry— As quoted in Winning Words : Classic Quotes from the World of Sports (2008) by Michael Benson, p. 181
