Author: B. H. Liddell Hart

Quotes

Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism.

Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism.

- B. H. Liddell Hart

Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

- B. H. Liddell Hart

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

- B. H. Liddell Hart

The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.

The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.

- B. H. Liddell Hart

The chief incalculable in war is the human will.

The chief incalculable in war is the human will.

- B. H. Liddell Hart

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.

- B. H. Liddell Hart

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