intellectual warfare Quotes

Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.

On the battlefield of ideas, winning requires moving toward the sound of the guns.

We've gotten into this - this mindset of fighting politically correct wars. There is no such thing as a politically correct war. The left, of course, will say Carson doesn't believe in the Geneva Convention, Carson doesn't believe in fighting stupid wars. And - and what we have to remember is we want to utilize the tremendous intellect that we have in the military to win wars.

A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphereThe ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.

We must be warriors in the struggle against ignorance

If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to so so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.

We will continue to spill blood in what is, at bottom, a war of ideas

Thinking is my fighting.

The real battlefield is the realm of ideas.

There are various forms of weaponry, intellectual weaponry, spiritual weaponry, political weaponry, economic weaponry. Because we are on the battlefield, and there are bullets flying, some symbolic, some literal and the life of the mind is a crucial place where the battle goes on.

A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.

In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible.