Preparing Combat Ready

Famous quotes containing the words preparing, combat and/or ready:

“When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)

“In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite ideas or dissociations. I must find a verbal formula to combat the rise of brutality—the principle of order versus the split atom.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

“still I’m ready to believe perhaps
some lives
tremble and flare up there, four blocks away ...”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)