A Quote by Sun Tzu

To Subdue an enemy without fighting is the greatest of skills

Sun Tzu

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Sun Tzu
Chinese - Philosopher

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Sun Tzu

To capture the enemy's entire army is better than to destroy it; to take intact a regiment, a company, or a squad is better than to destroy them. For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the supreme of excellence. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the supreme excellence.

Sun Tzu

For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.

Sun Tzu

Thus those skilled in war subdue the enemy's army without battle .... They conquer by strategy.

Sun Tzu

I think this idea of fighting the enemy within is sort of more interesting than fighting an external enemy.

Noah Hawley

Therefore the skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field.

Sun Tzu

We're in a declared war, but unless were clear about who the enemy is, we'll waste our time fighting enemies that aren't enemies at all. There's only one enemy and no matter what people do, say or react people are never the enemy. The enemy is our only enemy.

John Wimber

Subjugating the enemy's army without fighting is the true pinnacle of excellence.

Sun Tzu

The skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting.

Sun Tzu

Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Sun Tzu

Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting.

Sun Tzu

People say that jealousy is the greatest enemy of love. They’re wrong. The greatest enemy of love is boredom.

Nicole Kidman

The enemy of the black is not the white. The enemy of capitalist is not communist, the enemy of homosexual is not heterosexual, the enemy of Jew is not Arab, the enemy of youth is not the old, the enemy of hip is not redneck, the enemy of Chicano is not gringo and the enemy of women is not men. We all have the same enemy. The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind. The enemy is every expert who practices technocratic manipulation, the enemy is every proponent of standardization and the enemy is every victim who is so dull and lazy and weak as to allow himself to be manipulated and standardized.

Tom Robbins

I think it's great that these little various skills I have seem to add up to something, because I'm not the greatest pianist or the greatest vocalist or the greatest actor.

Tim Minchin

America is not fighting to win a war. We are fighting to give an application to an old Greek proverb, which is that the purpose of war is not to annihilate an enemy but to get him to mend his ways. And we are confident we can get the enemy to mend his.