Surrender, Capitulation Quotes

Vae Victis Woe to the vanquished

It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons.

Never give up! Never, Never, Never, Never, Never, Never!!

We will issue a warning statement asking the Japs to surrender and save lives. I'm sure they will not do that, but we will have given them the chance. It is certainly a good thing for the world that Hitler's crowd or Stalin's did not discover this atomic bomb. It seems to be the most terrible thing ever discovered, but it can made the most useful.

We may go down, but we will take a world with us.

This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

You know that if you get in the water and have nothing to hold on to, but try to behave as you would on dry land, you will drown. But if, on the other hand, you trust yourself to the water and let go, you will float. And this is exactly the situation of faith.

I can resist everything except temptation.

There is an old motto that runs, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." This is nonsense. It ought to read, "If at first you don't succeed, quit, quit at once."

When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

Tell the terrorists that we will not give in to your demands. We insist you free the hostages. If you do not do so peacefully, we are ready to use force…. The only ‘deal’ we are prepared to do with you is this: If you surrender without a fight, you will stay alive.

Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.

Kill all the Germans you can, but do not put them up against the wall and kill them. Do your killing while they’re still fighting. After a man has surrendered, he should be treated exactly in accordance with the Rules of Land Warfare, and just as you would hope to be treated if you were fool enough to surrender… Americans do not kick people in the teeth after they are down.

While many of us feel a strong emotional attachment to our homeland, we should not allow emotions to deter us from speaking of things the way they really are. It should be remembered that this very surrender to emotion has led to insane and counterproductive atrocities on the scale of the Ankara and Istanbul suicide assaults, as well as the Orly bombing and the Lisbon disaster. By surrendering to emotions we enable the A.R.F. and slogans like "Hagop Hagopian" to lead thousands of well-intentioned patriots down a path which does not lead to Armenia, and to sacrifice the lives of young fighters in campaigns which directly contradict the interests of the Armenian people. If we are to achieve even the minimum requirements for Armenian national self-determination, we must approach problems in a serious and sober manner.

Never say about anything, "I have lost it," but only "I have given it back." Is your child dead? It has been given back. Is your wife dead? She has been returned.

We cannot and will not surrender our border to those who wish to exploit our history of compassion and justice.

Control the things you can control. As for the rest - God bless it all.

Even a Dead Fish Can Go with the Flow.”

We do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone.

Let me live and I will do all you wish.

I do not know why there is this difference, but I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless He sees that it is good for him to wait. When you do enter your room, you will find that the long wait has done you some kind of good which you would not have had otherwise. But you must regard it as waiting, not as camping. You must keep on praying for light: and of course, even in the hall, you must begin trying to obey the rules which are common to the whole house. And above all you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and paneling.

Nothing on earth can resist an absolutely non-resistant person.