Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.
It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.
Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.
Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.
To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory.
More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat.
Religion is based. . . mainly upon fear. . . fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat.
Early withdrawal from Iraq would result in unarguably, defeat and humiliation for the United States. There's no question. We would be defeated by definition. We would be humiliated in that defeat. I don't think there's any other way to argue it. Whether it's a good thing or a bad thing is a separate question.
Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time. A century of family saga and a ride up an escalator can take the same number of pages. Fiction sets any conversion rate, then changes it in a syllable. The narrator’s mother carries her child up the stairs and the reader follows, for days. But World War I passes in a paragraph. I needed 125 pages to get from Labor Day to Christmas vacation. In six more words, here’s spring.
To fight an enemy properly, you have to know what they are. Ignorance is defeat.
The American president has to both keep our families safe and make the economy grow in a way that helps everyone, not just those at the top. That`s the job. I have a strategy to combat and defeat ISIS without getting us involved in another ground war. And I have plans to raise incomes and deal with a lot of the problems that keep families up at night.
Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.
Aiki is not a technique to fight with or defeat an enemy. It is the way to reconcile the world and make human beings one family.
Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
I don't care what problem you face; it has no power to defeat the cross of Christ.
A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.
Certainly in terms of my life - anybody's life - you go through death, childbirth and marriage, glory and defeat, and so on.
Everyone wants to learn how to win, but no one wants to learn how to accept defeat.