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Defeat Quotes

War is a defeat for humanity.

Pope John Paul II

War Humanity Defeat

The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.

People Control Defeat Force Even

My faith helped me stay grounded in defeat and victory, to not get too excited about the successes and too low about the failures.

Faith Me Victory Defeat Low Excited

When you defeat somebody, you're not really defeating them: they're defeating themselves.

You Defeat Somebody Them Really

Although one of the key justifications for the Vietnam war was to prevent the spread of communism, the U.S. defeat was to produce nothing of the kind: apart from the fact that Cambodia and Laos became embroiled, the effects were essentially confined to Vietnam.

War Communism Key Defeat Kind

If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.

Martha Gellhorn

Enjoy Sex Defeat Moral Out Thing

After Mitt Romney's defeat, the RNC released its official assessment of what happened - a failure to reach younger voters, nonwhite voters, women - but was met with a counter-narrative that, in fact, it was Romney's failure to be conservative enough that led to a depressed Republican base.

Kristen Soltis Anderson

Failure Women Reach Enough Defeat

Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.

Time Victory Defeat Everything Five

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Life Death Man Defeat Two Been

When we uncovered the Hinkley case, there were so many other cases like it, and they're just catching up. And we're just starting to see the damage. I was hoping by now there would be more transparency and less defeat and cover-up. I haven't seen much of that change.

Erin Brockovich

Change Transparency Defeat Now See

As you will recall, soon after the 9/11 attacks, an international coalition led by the United States conducted an impressive campaign to defeat the Taliban, al Qaeda, and other associated extremist groups in Afghanistan.

You Defeat Will Afghanistan United

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.

Beverley Nichols

Flowers Fragrance Defeat Overcome

We have got to defeat Donald Trump, and we have got to elect Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine.

Defeat Donald Trump Got Trump Elect

Marines don't know how to spell the word 'defeat'.

Defeat Know Marines Word Spell How

It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the character.

Character Fun You Look Defeat Want

People don't like to talk about victory and defeat anymore.

People Victory Defeat Talk Like

Few remember that the battle of Rorke's Drift was fought on the same day that the British Army suffered its most humiliating defeat at nearby Isandlwana.

Day Battle Army Remember Defeat Few

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

Defeat Never Fresh Discouragement

If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.

History War Democracy Deep Defeat

I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Problems Political Election Defeat

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

Purpose Me Defeat Said She Would

We will oppose and resist tyranny as we will defeat evil.

Evil Tyranny Defeat Will Resist

The object of China's strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat us militarily.

Power World Strategy Defeat China

India has indeed a great and free future before her, in which she can make her special contribution to the well-being of mankind. The first and indispensable part of that contribution is to work with the United Nations for the defeat of fascism and of brutal aggression.

Stafford Cripps

Work Future Great Free India Defeat

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