Et le combat cessa faute de combattants.
Don Rodrigue, act IV, scene iii.
Le Cid (1636)
Et le combat cessa faute de combattants.
Le Cid (1636)
Variant: Et le combat cessa, faute de combattants.
Quoted in "Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia, 1939" - Page 997 - by Alvin D. Coox - Political Science - 1990
“Not until all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son.”
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 19
“The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.”
Mike Wallace interview (4 November 1958), quoted in The Great Quotations (1966) by George Seldes
Other speeches and writings
Source: Mind and Nature, a necessary unity, 1988, p. 56
Maps of Meaning
“Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.”
Source: When God Whispers Your Name
Women Don't Belong In Ground Combat, Phyllis Schlafly Columns, 2007-03-30, Schlafly, Phyllis, 2005-06-01 http://www.eagleforum.org/column/2005/june05/05-06-01.html,
From a letter to H. P. Lovecraft (5 December 1935)
Letters
Context: You express amazement at my statement that 'civilized' men try to justify their looting, butchering and plundering by claiming that these things are done in the interests of art, progress and culture. That this simple statement of fact should cause surprize, amazes me in return. People claiming to possess superior civilization have always veneered their rapaciousness by such claims...
Your friend Mussolini is a striking modern-day example. In that speech of his I heard translated he spoke feelingly of the expansion of civilization. From time to time he has announced; 'The sword and civilization go hand in hand!' 'Wherever the Italian flag waves it will be as a symbol of civilization!' 'Africa must be brought into civilization!' It is not, of course, because of any selfish motive that he has invaded a helpless country, bombing, burning and gassing both combatants and non-combatants by the thousands. Oh, no, according to his own assertions it is all in the interests of art, culture and progress, just as the German war-lords were determined to confer the advantages of Teutonic Kultur on a benighted world, by fire and lead and steel. Civilized nations never, never have selfish motives for butchering, raping and looting; only horrid barbarians have those.
