If an incompetent chieftain is removed, seldom do we appoint his highest-ranking subordinate to his place
ATTILAThere, where I have passed, the grass will never grow gain.
More Attila Quotes
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Do not underestimate the power of an enemy, no matter how great or small, to rise against you another day.
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Everybody has value; even if to serve as a bad example.
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For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth?
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Never arbitrate. Arbitration allows a third party to determine your destiny. It is a resort of the weak.
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Trample the weak. Hurdle the dead.
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It is unfortunate when final decisions are made by chieftains headquartered miles away from the front, where they can only guess at conditions and potentialities known only to the captain of the battlefield.
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Chieftains must understand that the spirit of the law is greater than its letter.
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Superficial goals lead to superficial results.
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It’s not that I succeed, it’s that everyone else has to fail, horribly, preferably in front of their parents.
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There, where I have passed, the grass will never grow gain.
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It takes less courage to criticize the decisions of others than to stand by your own.
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