Quotes: Defeat

If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it… seemed a defeat.

We don’t defeat evil by becoming evil.

Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous.

Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable… and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you’re never going to defeat this pandemic.

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Those who committed these cowardly acts may believe that they have shaken our resolve to defeat terrorism. They could not be more wrong.