Top 172 Tactic Quotes & Sayings

Lampooning racism by reproducing brazenly racist imagery is a pretty dubious satirical tactic.

It's a deft trick to turn American exceptionalism into an exceptional political tactic.

A good tactic is one your people enjoy.

It is not a new tactic for people to use any avenue they can to silence black activists.

My son is not a tactic to be used in political arenas for relevancy and points.

Terror is a tactic. We can not wage "war" against a tactic.

The truth is liberals are using every tactic possible to drown the Trump presidency.

My tactic is to make eyes at someone.

Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses.

Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.

Women being pitted each other another in Hollywood is an old tactic, but it's not real at all.

Moving first is a tactic, not a goal.

A state that calculates that using a weapon or tactic of war is in its interest will generally find a way to do so.

I must choose my words carefully in order to avoid any negative interpretation. Among politicians, this is a tactic known as lying.

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.

I'm not into western medicine. That to me is a complete scare tactic.

BDS has been used as a tactic to raise awareness for Palestinian people, including women and their children.

Many activists and antagonists who are on the wrong side of an issue employ the tactic of, 'the best defense is a good offense.'

I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please - not that it's not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.

So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers.

Advertising is just a symptom, a tactic. Marketing is about far more than that.

I think that films about faith made for faith-based communities have a certain tactic.

If it's a principle, it's a winner. If it's a tactic, it's a loser.

As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.

The catch-all phrase "the war on terrorism", in all honesty, has no more meaning than if one wants to wage a war against "criminal gangsterism". Terrorism is a tactic. You can't have a war against a tactic. It's deliberately vague and non-definable in order to justify and permit perpetual war anywhere and under any circumstance.

Civil disobedience is a viable political tactic, and a non-violent tactic.

Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries .

Deception is a tactic: use it. Do whatever it takes to win.

A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.

Non-violence should be a tactic - not an ideology preached from the sidelines to victims of massive violence.

It comes down to that ... business tactic: the guy that yells loudest is right.

Scarcity is a good sales tactic if you are selling something people want.

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.

I think it used to be an accepted leadership tactic to essentially abuse people.

It's nearly every country's tactic to keep their greatest competitors a secret.

If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan majority from voting on the President's judicial nominees.

So, my tactic with conservation of apex predators is to get people excited and take them to where they live.

The West is in for a long, irregular confrontation - not with terrorism, which is simply a tactic, but with radical Islam.

I feel that sometimes managers think that, if they can come up with a tactic that leads to success in a major game, they can get all the plaudits.

On the best tactic when playing alongside Kareem Abdul-Jabbar- Just give him the ball.

Sex sells, but doesn't work so well as a strong-arm tactic. Give me your purse or I'll make out with you so hard.

Your rivals study the way you play and find a tactic to counteract your strengths.

That punk approach of 'We don't wanna get big' is really a bourgeois thing. It's not a tactic of people that actually have been successful at changing things.

The tactic of leading people into... a war that doesn't make any sense by telling them they are under attack, and if they raise any objection they're unpatriotic, is a very old tactic. And it doesn't intimidate me.

I organized tax resistance in 1965, with a friend. I kept at it for about ten years. I don't see it as a principle, it's a tactic. And I felt I had exhausted its potential as a tactic right about then, so I stopped.

Occupy was not a movement, it was a tactic. You can't sit forever in a park near Wall Street. You can't do it for more than a few months. It was a tactic I had not predicted. If people asked me, I would have said "don't do it." But it was a great success, an enormous success, with a big impact on people's thinking, on people's actions.

Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in.

When he is forced to perform the same task several times, the Warrior uses this tactic and transforms work into prayer.

I didn't go to Harvard or Princeton, but I can count - the defunding box canyon is a tactic that will fail and weaken our position.

A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.

A mercurial plan of action may have worked in the Trump Organization board room, but it's a disastrous tactic in foreign affairs.

Al Gore's not going to be rounding up Jews and exterminating them. It is the same tactic, however.

Arson is the single most fundamental form of terrorism.It`s the simplest terrorist tactic.

Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.

You cannot underestimate the sharpness of people’s BS radar. They can spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away.

The fear tactic is a tactic that's used by people who want to maintain control, and it's very effective.

Silence is the best tactic for he who distrusts himself.

I am dead against trying to keep religious conservatives out of the political debate. The tactic of exclusion is self-defeating.

I do believe that non-violent civil disobedience is a very important and useful tactic.

Venting your anger on anyone - especially complete strangers - is not a winning tactic. Be especially sweet to bartenders and people serving you food.