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Defensive Concepts
Quotes and Links
..And if you do not have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one. - Jesus Christ; Luke 22:36
A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood
- Gen. George S. Patton
It is true that I must run great risk; no gallant actions was ever accomplished without danger
- Admiral John Paul Jones
The plan was smooth on paper, only they forgot about the ravines - Russian military proverb
A rich man without arms must be prey to a poor soldier well armed - Niccolo Machiavelli
....opportunity waits for no man.
- Pericles
I base my calculations on the expectation that luck will be against me. - Napolean
Duty is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never do less.
- General Robert E. Lee
Don't judge the world by your own shitty standards.
- Master at Arms James Keating
What's life without a little risk?
- Spike
A lie stands on one leg, the truth on two
- Benjamin Franklin
Work fast, learn slow. Work slow, learn fast.
- Maestro Ramon Martinez
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
.Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.
- Santayana (thanks Doc)
Practice doesn't make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
- Richard Fike
Be always sure you're right, then go ahead.
- Davy Crockett.
Molon Labe! (Come and get them!)
- King Leonidas of Sparta to Xerxes
when asked to surrender and lay down
his arms.
The cowards never started and the weak died along the way.
- Kit Carson on the Westward Expansion
They that can give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
In the United States there is no essential difference in the way political bodies operate, local, county, state or federal are basically the same. The only essential differences are 1) how much of your hard earned pay they take in taxes and 2) how miserable they can make your life if you anger them. For example: if you make an enemy of your mayor several things can happen. The city building inspector can suddenly take an interest in your property, or you may develop a really bad driving record. Now, piss off the President of the United States. He puts a smart bomb through your window.
- Spike's Theory of U. S. Political Science
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
- Winston Churchill
The merit of the action lies in finishing it to the end.
- Genghis Khan
There cannot be good laws where there are not good arms.
- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.
- Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
Be trained or be chained.
- Master at Arms James A. Keating
"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.” - Thucydides
I am so dangerous I can afford to be polite, reasonable, and mellow.
Only the weak, insecure, and those who live in fear need to woof. Always treat others with respect, strive to understand all points of view, and never let yourself be controlled by negative emotions
- Via KSMA.blogspot.com
We pay a high price for being intelligent. Wisdom hurts.
- Euirpides
What greater glory attends a man than what he wins with his racing feet and his striving hands?
- Homer, The Odyssey
You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough.
- Abraham Lincoln
People who try to guess at a threatening person's "intent" are already most of the way toward victimization.
- John Farnam
Take risk, see ya later.
- Darren Stevenson, director of PUSH Physical Theater, saying goodbye.
The unexpected incessantly stalks the unwary.
- John Farnam
At the moment of truth, it is too late to practice!
- John Farnam
Preparation does not cause anxiety. Denial causes anxiety.
- Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
"Who asks of freedom anything other than freedom itself, is destined to be
a slave"
- Tocqueville
"Slavery degrades people to such a point that they come to like it"
- Clapiers
"There are only two tragedies. One is not getting what you want, and the
other is getting it. The last is much the worst."
- Wilde
"The most dangerous man to any government is the one who is able to think things out, without regard to prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable."
- Mencken
"Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm, but the harm they do does not interest them. Or, they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in an endless struggle to think well of themselves."
T. S. Eliot
"My life is simple, my food is plain, and my quarters are uncluttered. In all things, I have sought clarity. I face the troubles and problems of life and death willingly. Virtue, integrity and courage are my priorities. I can be approached, but never pushed; befriended but never coerced; killed but never shamed."
- Admiral Yi Sun-shin
“De inimico non loquaris male, sed cogites. ”
(Do not wish ill for your enemy, plan it)
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
- Abraham Lincoln
Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle."
-Robert Anthony
"That feeling you're having, that point of pain, confusion, panic, desperation, hopelessness right to the point where you want to give up, walk away and die... Don't. OWN IT!
That's your fever, your sickness and your death. It's about to break, fleet and you're on the verge of rebirth.
Owning your day is FIGHTING. It's facing your darkness, grabbing it by the fucking throat, pulling him right to your face and saying, 'I WIN.'
Diamonds are made under intense pressure. Forge yourself under the fire that is too hot for everyone except you! Stand up, shout for ALL to hear your name and take what's yours! Do not take the path others paved for you... MAKE YOURS.
Make everyone remember your name. Own your day!" -Dominick Izzo
Average is an insult. Strive for more. Strive for better. Push.
— Chris Shugart
Every time you don't rack your weights, Justin Bieber writes a new song.
— T Nation (Twitter)
Consistency is the "true north" indicator of any successful athlete. All forms of learning and personal development depend on regular repetition, and resistance training is no exception. Even the world's most perfect program would utterly fail without sufficient consistency. Likewise, consistent application to a sub-par program will deliver the results in spades.
- Charles Staley
Assume all responsibility for everything that's happened or has failed to happen to you. Once you do, you become empowered.
— Matt Kroc
“Strong people are harder to kill, and more useful in general.”
--Mark Rippetoe
"The most dangerous man to any government is the one who is able to think things out, without regard to prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable."
- Mencken
You've gotta surround yourself with people who are better than you. They'll drag you up toward their level.
— Charles Staley
Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders
- Tom Peters
As individuals, there is little we can do to sway history, so we need to stay active, current, connected, alert, mobile, agile, flexible, and dangerous, always moving forward, and always seeking-out new opportunities.
And, we need to be prepared for large-scale breakdowns in civil order, and a host of other chilling eventualities. We must be in a position to physically protect/perpetuate ourselves and what little we still have.
We're living through a period of deteriorating world history. It's going to be a bumpy ride!
- John Farnam
“If you are unsure of a course of action, do not attempt it. Your doubts and hesitations will infect your execution. Timidity is dangerous: better to enter with boldness. Any mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity. Everyone admires the bold; no one honors the timid.”
— Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; the cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."
- Mark Twain
Rules For The Gunman From Gabe Suarez
1). Don't carry the gun to make you a man. Carry because you are in fact a man.
2). Always carry your gun regardless of social pressures
3). If you can't physically carry a gun, always have a knife.
4). Whenever you carry a gun, also carry a knife...and some spare ammunition.
5). Carry the gun you can use best regardless of social fashion
6). Make sure you are good with that gun through continual and obsessive practice
7). Don't bluff or threaten with the gun. If you pull it, be certain you are justified and willing to use it.
8). Using it means shooting the other man or men in the chest and/or the face. Yes, it means killing.
9). If you can avoid having to shoot, it is a good thing, but do not second guess yourself once it has begun.
10). To facilitate the former, do not go to stupid places with stupid people to do stupid things at stupid times.
11). If you are involved in such activities, take a team with you....and rifles.
12). The default should be to mind your own business.
13). The only time minding your own business is superceded by getting involved is if what you see shocks the conscience of humanity and needs to be stopped.
14). The amount of violence you can justify and the number of rules you can break is directly proportionate to the level of evil displayed by your adversary.
15). Never apologize for using violence. Not only is it indicative of weakness but also of a lack of moral standing.
The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right that Heaven hath ordained.
George Washington - first inaugural address
Never push a loyal person to the point where they no longer care.
- Anon
"I'm not saying let's go out and kill all stupid people. I'm just saying
let's remove all warning labels, and let the problem work itself out."
- Anon
— Colonel John Boyd
Tiger, one day you will come to a fork in the road and you’re going to have to make a decision about which direction you want to go. If you go that way you can be somebody. You will have to make compromises and you will have to turn your back on your friends. But you will be a member of the club and you will get promoted and you will get good assignments. Or you can go that way and you can do something — something for your country and for your Air Force and for yourself. If you decide you want to do something, you may not get promoted and you may not get the good assignments and you certainly will not be a favorite of your superiors. But you won’t have to compromise yourself. You will be true to your friends and to yourself. And your work might make a difference. To be somebody or to do something. In life there is often a roll call. That’s when you will have to make a decision. To be or to do? Which way will you go?
— Colonel John Boyd
“Adversity introduces us to ourselves.”
"You need to get the fundamentals right. Fun wears off, cool wears off... useful never wears off." - Jason Fried
"A nation that forgets its past has no future."
- Winston Churchill
Commentaries on the Gallic Wars," Caesar writes: "The immortal gods are wont to allow those persons whom they wish to punish for their guilt sometimes a greater prosperity and longer impunity, in order that they may suffer the more severely from a reverse of circumstances."
“All door-ways,
before going forward,
should be looked to;
for difficult it is to know
where foes may sit
within a dwelling.”
— Hávamál (“Sayings of the High One”)
“Pain doesn’t matter, the mind does the work.”
You’ll go back to your old habits once you meet a little resistance. You need the samurai’s desperateness and his insanity. Burn the bridge. Nuke the foundation. Back yourself up against a wall. Have an opinion one way or the other, get off the fence and rip it up. Cut yourself off so there is no going back. Once you’re committed the truth will come out. You ask about security? What you need is uncertainty. What you need is confusion; something that forces you to reinvent yourself, a whip to drive you harder.
— Marl Twight: Twitching with Twight
“I had to get personal with my demons before I could kill them.”
Every time you train, train with the motivation and purpose that you will be the hardest person someone ever tries to kill.
— Tim Kennedy. Get Fit or Die, my friends.
“When men evaluate each other as men, they still look for the same virtues that they’d need to keep the perimeter. Men respond to and admire the qualities that would make men useful and dependable in an emergency. Men have always had a role apart, and they still judge one another according to the demands of that role as a guardian in a gang struggling for survival against encroaching doom. Everything that is specifically about being a man—not merely a person—has to do with that role.”
~Jack Donovan
“Cogito, ergo armatum sum.”
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.
— Bruce Lee
Sometimes you don’t get closure, you just move on.
“When a nation forgets her skill in war, when her religion becomes a mockery, when the whole nation becomes a nation of money-grabbers, then the wild tribes, the barbarians drive in... Who will our invaders be? From whence will they come?”
Robert E. Howard
I Do Not Choose To Be A Common Man
By Dean Alfange
I do not choose to be a common man. It is my right to be uncommon— if I can. I seek opportunity not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me.
I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed. I refuse to barter incentive for a dole. I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence; the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopia.
I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout. I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat.
It is my heritage to stand erect, proud and unafraid; to think and act for myself, enjoy the benefit of my creations and to face the world boldly and say, "This I have done."
The 8 S's of Martial Success
1. Strength
2. Speed
3. Stamina
4. Skill
5. Strategy
6. Suppleness
7. Sensitivity
8. Spirit
“Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.”
~Robert A. Heinlein
I’ve said many times before that for creatures in Nature, getting through a day is very much an exercise in energy management. Investment measured against return. The Way of the Wild doesn’t hold it up as a good idea to expend valuable energy and expose the self to risk of injury or immediate death by attacking and killing out of such base sentiments as boredom or sheer malice, and defensive measures offered by the presumed “prey” are what hold potential attackers in check. Nothing in Nature meekly submits. It’s flight or fight, all the way!
~ In Ferro Vertas – Chapter the Third
To Be a warrior is to be self-possessed, centered, acutely aware, and empty. It is a very particular state of mind, one which focuses on the moment, free of doubts and idle speculations. "In a world where death is the hunter, my friend there is not time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions".
- Via Uncle Jim
“Ber er hver að baki nema sér bróður eigi.”
—
Bare is the back of a brotherless man. (Norse Proverb)
