Invasion Quotes

“If you always try to subjugate people by coercion, because you are strong, then sooner or later you will run into somebody who is just as strong, if not stronger. Then you'll be in trouble.”
― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

“To catch a wild animal, you have to use the right bait.
What happens to the bait? I haven't decided yet.”
― March Lions, The Last Sunset

“One thing that became very clear during my own war service is that those who are actively taking part in war-like activities very seldom hate their former enemies. The reverse is the case with a great respect developing among the veterans, even if they happened to be on opposing sides.”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

“As well, I want our special force commandos to silently slip into Cat Bi and Gia Lam airfields and destroy the aircraft stationed there. That will deal the French forces at Dien Bien Phu a stunning blow!” (Giap, 1990)”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

“A French lieutenant was asked by the commander of the French forces, “Jean, it seems to me that many people are only saying the things they think that I want to hear. Accordingly, what I am getting is not information, it is fucking bullshit!”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

“When speaking to her husband, Isabella replied, Mon tresdoutz coer, (My very sweet heart) please do that and perhaps I shall be able to continue to perform official functions on your behalf!”
― Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen

“Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.”
― Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

“But there were too many points at which the other self could invade the self he wanted to preserve, and there were too many forms of invasion: certain words, sounds, lights, actions his hands or feet performed, and if he did nothing at all, heard and saw nothing, the shouting of some triumphant inner voice that shocked him and cowed him.”
― Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

“Fortune favours the brave, sir," said Carrot cheerfully.

"Good. Good. Pleased to hear it, captain. What is her position vis a vis heavily armed, well prepared and excessively manned armies?"

"Oh, no–one's ever heard of Fortune favouring them, sir."

"According to General Tacticus, it's because they favour themselves," said Vimes. He opened the battered book. Bits of paper and string indicated his many bookmarks. "In fact, men, the general has this to say about ensuring against defeat when outnumbered, out–weaponed and outpositioned. It is..." he turned the page, "'Don't Have a Battle.'"

"Sounds like a clever man," said Jenkins. He pointed to the yellow horizon.

"See all that stuff in the air?" he said. "What do you think that is?"

"Mist?" said Vimes.

"Hah, yes. Klatchian mist! It's a sandstorm! The sand blows about all the time. Vicious stuff. If you want to sharpen your sword, just hold it up in the air."

"Oh."

"And it's just as well because otherwise you'd see Mount Gebra. And below it is what they call the Fist of Gebra. It's a town but there's a bloody great fort, walls thirty feet thick. 's like a big city all by itself. 's got room inside for thousands of armed men, war elephants, battle camels, everything. And if you saw that, you'd want me to turn round right now. Whats your famous general got to say about it, eh?"

"I think I saw something..." said Vimes. He flicked to another page. "Ah, yes, he says, 'After the first battle of Sto Lat, I formulated a policy which has stood me in good stead in other battles. It is this: if the enemy has an impregnable stronghold, see he stays there.'"

"That's a lot of help," said Jenkins.

Vimes slipped the book into a pocket.

"So, Constable Visit, there's a god on our side, is there?"

"Certainly, sir."

"But probably also a god on their side as well?"

"Very likely, sir. There's a god on every side."

"Let's hope they balance out, then.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

“Captain Smek himself appeared on television for an official speech to humankind.
[...] 'Noble Savages of Earth,' he said. 'Long time we have tried to live together in peace.' (It had been five months.) 'Long time have the Boov suffered under the hostileness and intolerableness of you people. With sad hearts I now concede that Boov and humans will never to exist as one.'
I remember being really excited at this point. Could I possibly be hearing right? Were the Boov about to leave? I was so stupid.
'And so now I generously grant you Human Preserves - gifts of land that will be for humans forever, never to be taken away again, now.'
[...] So that's when we Americans were given Florida. One state for three hundred million people. There were going to be some serious lines for the bathrooms.”
― Adam Rex, The True Meaning of Smekday

“War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Mr. Williams, in your short time boarding with us you’ve seen very little of my home,” Eleanor said. “I’d like you to see the rest of it, starting with my bedroom.”
― C.A. Knutsen, Tom and G.E.R.I.

“The arrival of language was like the invasion of a parasitic system. Co-opting those areas of the brain that were the least dedicated. The most susceptible to appropriation.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris

“No language meant no chance of co-opting them in to what their round and flaxen invaders were calling Salvation.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

“The unconscious system of guidance is millions of years old, speech less than a hundred thousand. The brain had no idea any of this was coming. The unconscious must have had to do all sorts of scrambling around to accommodate a system that proved perfectly relentless. Not only it is comparable to a parasitic invasion, it’s not comparable to anything else.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris

“What do you tell someone who hasn't live through it all?

Try to explain what it's like, living under a pressure-front of madness crawling up out of the sea - the fairy folk nearly done with their centuries-long crossing of the Atlantic. Tell him about the watchtowers of the air, brought to earth by fire in New York. Tell him about New Orleans, all its magic and voudoun drawing the Fey like a magnet, the ocean rising up to meet it. By the time they burn like wildfire all across the country to Hollywood, the whole world will be dreaming their dreams.”
― Michael Montoure, Slices

“Everything my life had been before and has been after pales in the light of that awesome moment when my amtrac started in amid a thunderous bombardment toward the flaming, smoke-shrouded beach for the assault on Peleliu.”
― E.B. Sledge, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

“I would have to have a head filled with nokwold petals to not notice.” At Feng’s confused frown, she awkwardly mumbled, “They’re… they make you… loopy… and inebriated."
"You eat petals to get drunk?"
"Would you please focus?”
― Heather Chambers, Earth Sucks

“When the invader invades you, they will make a history for you, and you will owe it to them.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Prisoner and invasion are limited there will be a reaction when it crosses the border.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“It seems the USA loses most wars it gets involved in.”
― Steven Magee

“Would not some effort be made to repel the invaders? Surely if we had lost our command of the sea the War Office could, by some means, assemble sufficient men to at least protect London? This was the cry of the wild, turbulent crowd surging through the City and West End, as the blood-red sun sank into the west, flooding London in its warm afterglow--a light in the sky that was prophetic of red ruin and of death to those wildly excited millions.”
― William Le Queux, The Invasion

“The invasion of Taiwan will be a navy war.”
― Steven Magee

“[Hand Watches]
I opened the drawer
Where I keep old things and tokens
I glanced over some hand watches
With dead batteries and frozen times…
Watches that were gifted to me over time
By teachers or friends
To commend my accomplishments and respect for time…
It never occurred to them or to me then
That Time would die in a heart attack
And will cease to be important
The day my homeland was occupied and destroyed…
The day the occupying thieves
In collaboration with the thieves within
Would burn and destroy everything beautiful in it…
And since then, I refuse to wear hand watches
And will never wear one
Until my people get back their Time and dignity…
And when that happens, Time will remain unimportant
For then, I will turn into a butterfly
A sparrow
A daffodil or an orange blossom,
Or perhaps an apricot blossom on a branch
An unstoppable sprig of water
That flows beyond time and timing…
In that same drawer I found
Pens that have run out of ink
Looking like mummified corpses..
At a moment of despair,
A strong feeling struck me like a lightning
Leaving me with a frightening question:
What if this is a wound that all time can’t cure
A cause that all the ink of the world can’t solve?

[Original poem published in Arabic on February 5, 2023 at ahewar.org]”
― Louis Yako

“Ukraine is known as the ‘bread basket of Europe’.”
― Steven Magee

“The King (A Sonnet)

Today I salute you,
For today you are king,
Ruler of the entire earth,
One without a living being.

My congratulations, your majesty,
On your glorious accomplishment!
Fate worse than a defeated king
is a king without subjects.

I got buried in the wreck,
So did my friends and family.
But still I salute you my king,
On your unparalleled victory.

I salute you from my grave,
For today you are king,
Ruler of a million lands,
Yet still, ruler of nothing!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion

“Israel avslutar invasionen, kriget slutar - Palestina avslutar motståndet, Palestina upphör.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“Israel beendet die Invasion, der Krieg endet – Palästina beendet den Widerstand, Palästina endet.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“If we are all good people with good hearts and intensions. If we are all disciplined. We all respect and obey the law and authority. Genuinely love and care for each other. Wishing well and the best for each other. See each other as one big family than strangers. Then we are ready for one Africa, and we can do away with the borders, But if not.

What will open borders do is to allow worse and evil things to happen to good people in a bigger scale.
It will be easy to start a war. People won’t be reliable. The society and the system keeping things in place will fail.
More crimes and treason will be committed. It will be hard close to impossible to catch criminals and to sentence them. Criminals will have bigger market to steal and to commit their crimes. It will be easily for them to move around, to do money, diamond, gold laundering. Easy to smuggle people, stolen items, drugs, cars, cigarette. Fugitives, murders and rapist, pedophiles, serial killers. Opportunists, scammers or con man or women. Will fool and take advantage of lot of people. It will be easy for them to start cult and to manipulate people.
Corporates will get more cheap labor employes that they will enslaves and to extort.
Open borders is good business for criminals not for loyal honest citizens.

Ask yourself. How many things illegal things were caught at the border or customs?
How many criminals and dangerous people were caught at the border or customs?
Ask yourself what would have happen If there were no borders?
Open borders would have been a good idea if we were all good people and your unfortunately, we are not.
We all have hidden agendas and will say and do anything for money.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“The trouble with big empires is that the enemy is far away and there is weather in between.”
― Christopher de Bellaigue, The Lion House