Quotes about the army and military service (150 quotes)
Serving in the army is a very worthy and necessary thing. Only there can you acquire those skills that can be useful in a real military conflict. In our country, only men perform compulsory service, but for example, in Israel, absolutely all citizens over 18 and under 60 years old have such an obligation. Due to the specifics of military service, there are many different interesting opinions and phrases on this topic. This section of the site contains quotes about the army and military service, especially for you.
You can't be a good soldier without some stupidity.
A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.
War imposes tribute on both men and women equally, but only takes blood from some, and tears from others.
The war would have been a picnic if it weren't for lice and dysentery.
If the enemy does not threaten, the army is in danger.
They say that universal conscription is a democratic institution. Yes, like the cemetery.
The most pathetic thing in the world is a crowd, and an army is a crowd; they go into battle not because courage has flared up in them, but what gives them courage is the knowledge that there are many of them and that they are commanded.
The big battalions are always right.
Generals are always preparing for the last war.
Soldier's commandment: away from the authorities, closer to the kitchen. They drowned.
What is required of a soldier, first of all, is endurance and patience; courage is the second thing.
A trained soldier reacts to the sound and ignores the idea.
Children play soldiers. It's clear. But why do soldiers play at children?
Time has no power over the greatness of everything we experienced during the war. And the people, who once experienced great trials, will continue to draw strength from this victory.
Idleness is the root of all evil, especially for a military man.
War is a duel of wills. If you are not ready to sacrifice everything, then you have already lost.
You can't be a good soldier without some stupidity.
An army without culture is a stupid army, and a stupid army is not capable of defeating the enemy.
In the army, your soul is taken out and a charter is inserted in its place.
Military forces are not enough to defend the country, while a country defended by the people is invincible.
Happiness is always on the side of the brave.
I began to understand what people are capable of. Anyone who has gone through the war and does not understand that people create evil, just as a bee produces honey, is either blind or out of his mind.
A British soldier can stand up to anyone but the British Ministry of Defence.
An army is people gathered in one place for one purpose: to correct the mistakes of diplomats.
There are no convenient trenches.
I came, I saw, I conquered.
States and armies are often like ships that are hampered by their size.
An army of rams led by a lion will always win over an army of lions led by a ram.
The army is a huge voracious beast, devouring everything in its path.
The army is a bad school, since war does not happen every day, and the military pretends that their work is permanent.
Military justice has the same relation to justice as military music has to music.
They do nothing in the barracks, but they are extremely disciplined.
We are told that war is murder. No: it's suicide.
An officer cannot be a good commander if he is no longer at all afraid of the corporal.
A people who does not want to feed their army will soon be forced to feed someone else's.
The inevitability of conscription induces people to voluntarily enlist in military service.
God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of the best shooters.
There is an opinion among the people that the military are limited people. Nothing like this. For example, I went to the theater for the first time in my life when I served in the army. And not because he wanted it, but because it was an order. Order for the entire company to go to the theater. This kind of, you know, cultural and entertainment forced march. But we liked it, because after all, without gas masks and in uniform.
In the army, everything is exactly the same as in the Boy Scouts, but the scouts are under the supervision of adults
A contract for military service is an agreement in which the military department undertakes to pay salary, and the contractor agrees to be killed in the event of hostilities.
A large army is always in disarray.
Easy to learn - hard to travel, difficult to learn - easy to travel.
Winners and lovers do not get sick.
If the military profession is to mean anything at all, it must be based on an unshakable code of honor. Otherwise, those who follow the reels will be just a bunch of hired killers.
Leading untrained people into war is the same as throwing them away.
In the war for the budget, the army is invincible.
First get acquainted, study, and then act.
If everyone fought only according to their convictions, there would be no war.
Your soul may belong to God, but your ass belongs to the army.
A soldier is one whose blood makes a general famous.
The army is arrayed for destruction.
The entire disciplinary charter is completely contained in one phrase of the oath: “not only for fear, but also for conscience.”
Only the son of a general can become a general.
Before you command, learn to obey.
The army needs soldiers. In an army without soldiers there is absurdity and corruption.
The commander is like a road sign: he shows everyone where to go, but he himself does not go there.
The highest and final goal of military education is the art of defeating the enemy.
Prologue of the 20th century - gunpowder factory. Epilogue - Red Cross barracks.
Army rule: “Only those who know how to obey can command.” It’s like saying: “Only those who know how to sink can swim.”
For good people the army is their mother, and for bad people it is their mother-in-law.
Officers in the garrison are commanders of their subordinates. The commanders of the commanders are their wives. Commanding their husbands is their only activity that gives them pleasure. And we must pay tribute - many show amazing abilities in this.
War consists of unforeseen events.
The military industry is in fact the greatest danger to humanity. She is the black driving force behind the pervasive nationalism.
Military education inculcates courage through fear.
Life without the army is like love in a rubber band: there is movement, but no progress.
The cap deforms the head.
The defeat of the enemy in an operation, battle or battle is the work of the entire team, a common cause.
A British soldier can stand up to anyone but the British Ministry of Defence.
Anyone who tries to evade his combat duty is not truly crazy.
The most pathetic thing in the world is a crowd; here is the army - the crowd; they go into battle not because courage flares up in them - what gives them courage is the knowledge that there are many of them and that they are commanded.
The better the soldiers march, the worse they shoot.
Love for the homeland is the first dignity of a civilized person.
The greatest joy for a man is to defeat his enemies, to drive them before him, to take away their property, to see their loved ones cry, to ride their horses, to squeeze their daughters and wives in his arms.
A contract for military service is an agreement in which the military department undertakes to pay salary, and the contractor agrees to be killed in the event of hostilities.
The education of a soldier begins with the fact that he is forbidden much more than any other person.
Experts in the art of war have established an inverse proportion between the number of enemy soldiers killed and the number of our generals.
Obedience, training, discipline, cleanliness, health, neatness, cheerfulness, courage, courage - victory.
- Is there no God? - No, my friend. Of course not. If he had, would he have allowed what I saw with my own eyes?
Speed in an army is of the utmost importance, both to those who advance and especially to those who retreat.
The army is a school where no matter how well you study, you will still stay for the second year.
The soldier is the last link in the evolution of the animal world.
No matter how bad things get, never despair, hold on as long as you have strength.
Ultimately, a soldier's pack is no heavier than a prisoner of war's chains.
A career officer is a person whom we feed in peacetime, so that in wartime he can send us to the front.
In the army, everything is done quickly, so service there drags on slowly.
Inform all units that communication has been completely lost.
There are no undaunted people among those who have something to lose.
War is, for the most part, a catalog of blunders.
There are no convenient trenches.
How is a soldier different from a general? Because a general has many heads, but a soldier has only one.
A soldier should fear his superior more than his enemies.
Don't think about yourself, think about your comrades; your comrades will think about you. This is the first military commandment.
-Where were you wounded? In Russia? In Italy? - More like in the thigh.
If a commander talks to his soldiers kindly and courteously, it means he has lost his army.
A trained soldier reacts to the sound and ignores the idea.
One bad commander is better than two good ones.
It is better to defend yourself ineptly than to know exactly why and how you will be killed.
The only way to win is to attack!
The military must obey the politicians.
The War Department prepares three kinds of reports: one to deceive the public, a second to deceive the Cabinet, and a third to deceive themselves.
There is no greater disaster than underestimating your enemy.
War is barbaric when a peaceful neighbor is attacked, but it is a sacred duty when defending the homeland.
The military industry is in fact the greatest danger to humanity. She is the black driving force behind the pervasive nationalism.
A volunteer in the army is a person who doesn’t care whether he’s advancing or running back. If only they paid money.
Military power is like fire: it burns close up, and warms from afar.
Peace and harmony are useful for the vanquished, but only commendable for the victors.
You have to be a soldier for the sake of your homeland or out of love for the cause for which you are going into battle. Without a goal, to serve here today and there tomorrow means to be a butcher's assistant, nothing more.
And the greatest military leader, at the head of his soldiers, devoid of fighting spirit, turns out to be a complete mediocrity.
When an army resorts to means that the enemy would be ashamed of, it will certainly win!
In the whole world we have only two true allies - our army and navy.
Nails are not made from good iron - a smart person will not serve as a soldier.
“Yes”, “that’s right”, “no way” and “hurray!” - four words given to a serviceman. How to make a PhD dissertation out of them? I don't understand.
Military forces are not enough to defend the country, while a country defended by the people is invincible.
A good army is a bad army. They hate her more.
The most numerous armies are far from the strongest.
War is a crime that cannot be atoned for by victory.
The great questions of the time are not decided by speeches at rallies, not by banner marches of the Verein, and not by resolutions of the despicable majority, but solely by iron and blood!
The strength of the army lies in strict discipline and strict obedience to its officers
God fights on the side that, other things being equal, has more troops.
Knocked down - fight on your knees, you can’t walk - while lying down, advance.
Franco bombs Barcelona because, according to him, monks were brutally exterminated in Barcelona. Consequently, Franco defends Christian values. But a Christian, in the name of Christian values, stands in bombed Barcelona near a fire in which women and children are burning. And he refuses to understand the meaning of life.
A disorderly crowd is no more an army than a pile of building materials.
Those who served in the army do not laugh at the circus.
The power that relies on a mercenary army will never be strong or durable.
Idleness is the root of all evil, especially for a military man.
As much as a well-trained warrior craves battle, an untrained one fears it.
The state of the enemy is not visible, but the suffering of one’s own army is before one’s eyes, so the latter have a stronger effect on an ordinary person, because for an ordinary person, sensory impressions take precedence over the voice of reason.
War is a test of all the economic and organizational forces of every nation.
The military class is the most honorable. What is war, what is needed for success in military affairs, what are the morals of military society? The purpose of war is murder, the weapons of war are espionage, treason and its encouragement, the ruin of the inhabitants, their robbery or theft to feed the army; deception and lies, called stratagems; The morals of the military class are lack of freedom, this is discipline, idleness, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery, drunkenness. And despite this, this is the highest class, respected by everyone. All kings, except the Chinese, wear a military uniform, and the one who killed the most people is given a large reward.
See your family in your unit, your father in your boss, and your brother in your comrade.
Where the army depends on the people, sooner or later it turns out that the government depends on the army.
The main thing is to capture someone else’s city, and then historians will justify why this is our original land.
The more complete the picture of suffering, the more complete the feeling of victory. Regret is unacceptable - it interferes with achieving your goal.
An army without discipline is a “reed shaken by the wind”
Discipline is the soul of the army. It turns a small army into a mighty force, brings success to the weak and respect to everyone.
Any war is popular during the first thirty days.
Permanent peace would be the same as constant war. War is peace.
There must be discipline in military service - without it no one would lift a finger for the cause. Our chief lieutenant Makovets always said: “Discipline, idiots, is necessary. Without discipline, you would be climbing trees like monkeys. Military service will make people out of you, brainless fools!” Well, isn't that so? Imagine a square, say, on Charles Square, and on each tree there sits one soldier without any discipline. This scares me terribly.
In war there is no second prize for the losers.
A soldier must be healthy, brave, firm, determined, truthful, and pious.
Service and friendship are two parallel lines: they do not converge.
War, like a mistress, takes away husbands from women.
War is a series of disasters leading to victory.
The state creates, develops its power and dies together with the army; without the army there is no independence, no freedom, no state itself.
A general is a corporal who has been promoted to rank many times.
Everything about a person must be perfect - shoulder straps, cockade, underwear, otherwise he is not a person, but a mammal.
Club politicians who oppose standing armies are crazy. Once a sovereign disbands his troops, allows his fortresses to be destroyed, and spends his time reading Grotius, he will not reign for even six months.
The fastest way to end a war is to lose it.
When a war breaks out, people usually say, "Well, this can't last, it's too stupid." And indeed, war is indeed too stupid, which, however, does not prevent it from lasting a long time.
An army, like a snake, moves on its belly.
Bravery is born in childhood
What to wish for in the army.
Wishes for seeing off to the army in your own words As a child, Alexander was often sick and was a weak boy. Upset by his son’s illnesses, by the age of 12 his father began to look for a civil case for him. And here he first came across the strong character of the future general. The younger Suvorov, quotes about whose courage can be found in any historical chronicle, showed a strong desire to study the art of war.
- “The brave live longer, but the brave have a head of purpose.”
- “If we scared you, that’s half the victory!”
- “If you are not afraid of death, laugh at your enemy.”
- “Foolish courage will not give you victory. But if you mix it with military cunning, then it can be called the art of war.”
- "Russian exploits are louder than words."
- “It’s not so scary to go towards danger as to wait for it in one place.”
His father's son
Alexander's father, Vasily Ivanovich, was the godson of Tsar Peter. His grandfather, Ivan Grigorievich, served as a clerk, but the great emperor awarded Vasily the rank of general for his services to his homeland. It was in such a family, where military order was respected by the father, as well as loyalty to the sovereign, that the talented commander Suvorov grew up. Quotes belonging to Alexander accurately define some of his character traits.
- “Discipline is the first sign of victory.”
- “Politics is a rotten business.”
- “The more comfortable your life is, the more cowardice grows in you.”
- "I am Russian! What happiness!”
- “Even an executioner can be a courteous person.”
- “Great adventures begin as usual.”
- “People have always driven away true virtue.”
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Proverbs about the army and soldiers, about military service
And here are pearls of army humor, some from the Internet and literature, and some from personal combat experience.
Those who served in the army don’t laugh at the circus!
We carry round things, we roll square ones...
We don’t need any enemy at all, we will kill ourselves and die.
You called the call center of the conscription assembly point: if you want to serve in the army, press the asterisk, if you don’t want to, press the hash.
The soldier is sleeping, the service is going on.
The life of a soldier is a struggle. Before lunch - with hunger, after lunch - with sleep.
The more oak trees in the army, the stronger our defense.
Sleep is the only activity that a soldier takes seriously.
A smoke break shortens not only your life, but also your service.
In the army they don’t swear, they just talk.
They scored based on health, but they ask how smart they are!
Vodka is the enemy. But the soldier is not afraid of his enemies and destroys them.
Boots need to be cleaned in the evening so that you can put them on fresh in the morning!
In case of emergency, pants should be placed on a stool with the fly facing the exit...
Frost and sun, a wonderful day. Pushkin once wrote. From these words it is immediately clear. Curly did not know the army.
In the army they don’t steal or lose, they stay in the army...
One in the field is not a warrior, the orderly said and went to bed.
Alexander Suvorov
The great Russian military leader was a real “father to the soldier” and a very wise man in everyday life
Therefore, Count Rymniksky was always treated with great attention and respect
“The smaller the army, the more brave men there are.”
“A soldier must be healthy, brave, firm, decisive, and fair.”
“For a soldier - courage, for an officer - courage, for a general - courage.”
“With severity, mercy is needed, otherwise severity is tyranny.”
“One should not think that blind courage gives victory over the enemy, but the only thing mixed with it is the art of war.”
“Speed and pressure are the soul of real war.”
“Although courage, vigor and courage are needed everywhere and on all occasions, they are only in vain if they do not flow from the soldier.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
Who is Napoleon? Cake? Pompous dwarf? Lover Hero? First of all, he is a wise ruler and a talented commander, and it doesn’t matter whether you consider him as such or not. As an emperor, he also had to “steer” the social life of the country, and therefore not all of his phrases relate to war
Some of them are very dubious, but should we argue with the dead?
“Religion is an important subject in girls' schools. She, no matter how you look at her, is the most reliable guarantee for mothers and husbands. School should teach a girl to believe, not think.”
“A man should sleep four hours, a woman six; Only children and stupid fools sleep more than six hours.”
“A man who allows himself to be pushed around by a woman is neither a man nor a woman, but simply nothing.”
“The people, like women, have only one right: to be governed.”
“Revolution is a conviction backed by bayonets.”
“Public opinion is a public whore.”
“The Russians turned out to be worthy of being invincible.”
“There are two levers for managing people: the first is personal gain, and the second is money.”
“A fool has a great advantage over an educated man: he is always pleased with himself.”
“A leader is like a merchant who has invested his money in a business and expects profit.”
“Coups are made with the belly.”
“What does a million human lives mean to a person like me?”
“What is history if not a lie that everyone agrees on?”
“Keep it short and unclear.”
“A coward runs from someone who is more evil than him; The weak are defeated by the strong: this is the origin of political law.”
“Of course, there was no gospel Christ. There was some Jewish fanatic who imagined himself to be the Messiah. Such people are finished off everywhere, at all times. I myself had the opportunity to shoot them.”
“Women should not be treated as equals, for they are only machines for producing offspring. The best woman is the one who has the most children.”
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Will people with tattoos be accepted into the army in 2021?
What if there is a war or some other event?
But this leads to the death of numerous victims!
You’d better keep quiet, comrade cadet, the noodles on your ears haven’t dried yet.
And if you run out of ammunition in battle, what should you do? Shoot further to mislead the enemy.
And if it’s difficult, then you need to clench your teeth into a fist.
And on the first floor of our department there are classes No. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and so on until the 12th.
But for me, let them at least kill everyone, so long as there is no war!...
And from 17 o'clock the snow will be cleared by the communists.
And I will talk to you in YOU: I’ll KICK YOU OUT, REMEDIATE, FUCK YOU...
Abashidze, overgrown like an elephant, hairy as hell!
The machine works like this: one, two, three - and you’re gone.
The Americans used a new super-bomb to suppress enemy electronic weapons - and were surprised to discover that Kalashnikov assault rifles do not use microprocessors...
The army is a dream, God forbid, it happens again...
An army without swearing is like a soldier without a machine gun.
The army, other than benefit, cannot bring any harm.
Drummer! Play the anthem of the Soviet Union!
God helps not large battalions, but those who shoot better.
God created the strong and the weak, and Mr. Colt evened out their chances
God created sleep and silence, and the devil created rise and sergeant major.
The combat leaflet must be a combat leaflet, because it is a combat leaflet.
The fighter was young and inexperienced. He hesitated, and the bread slicer chopped off two of his fingers. It’s a pity that he was commissioned in his new uniform...
A fighter must salute every tree, starting with me.
Combat is the only means of achieving victory in battle.
To the fighter of the invisible front - an invisible heroic star!
There were guard dogs there. We looked and talked - they turned out to be ordinary dogs.
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Funny aphorisms about the army
The best remedy is running in a gas mask!
He didn’t like salted tomatoes because his head couldn’t fit into the jar, and if it did, it stung his eyes.
Comrades, it's time to recover! And we haven't eaten yet!
The radio station should be located in the head of the column leader.
The screams and groans of the dead were heard on the battlefield.
If a stone is thrown upward, then, since the force of gravity acts on it, it will fall to the ground.
What if he falls into the water?
This does not concern us, this is what they do in the navy.
Here's what you need to do to have a correct speech impediment
Articles on sex education in the Health magazine help strengthen military discipline.
From and before my marriage, I didn’t know what illness was: I was healthy inside and out!
When I drink sparkling water, for some reason it hits me right on the top of my head, and not in my nose.
I feel well, but not well.
What interests you more: what I say, or the dead pigeon that flies over the dining room?!
At the command “Equal!” the kettle turns to the right.
Do not point a weapon at people, even if it is loaded.
Girls who don't know how to salute, take two steps forward!
Quotes from Russian classics with the phrase “great commanders”
With the last words, the great commander
fell at the feet of Konstantin Pavlovich.
“Jokes aside,” she continued in a more serious tone, “tell me, was there even one of the Russian princes who was truly a great man, a great commander?”
, a great poet, scientist, great critic, publicist?..
Great commander
started the war, calculating only the necessary and surest chances; but during the war itself, favorable circumstances occurred that he did not count on and which, however, he knew how to take advantage of.
And in general, it must be said that the idea that “beautiful things are rarely found in reality” is based on a confusion of the concepts “completely” and “first”: there are a lot of completely majestic rivers, the first of the majestic rivers, of course, is one; great commanders
many, the first commander in the world was one of them.
“No,” answered Davyd, “we are now beating the French [In 1799, Russian troops under the command of the great commander
Suvorov won brilliant victories over the French army in Italy and Switzerland.].
Inaccurate matches
At the very time that Moscow was carefreely getting ready to go to the theater to look at the glorious old artist, a military thunderstorm, which had long accumulated over Russia, quickly and directly rushed towards it; they already knew Napoleon’s proclamation, in which he announced that in a few months both northern capitals would see within their walls the winner of the world; knew that the victorious French army, together with the forces of the whole of Europe, was coming towards us under the leadership of the great
, the first
commander
of his time; they knew that the enemy would soon cross the Neman (he crossed on June 12) - everyone knew this and were not at all worried.
I always grieved that the great
Pirogov was taken by Gogol in such a small rank, because Pirogov is so self-satisfied that there is nothing easier for him than to imagine himself, as the epaulets grow fat and spin on him over the years and “along the line,” as an extraordinary, for example,
commander
;
You can’t even imagine it, but just don’t doubt it: you were promoted to general, how could you not be a commander
?
Already her warriors were defeating the Ottomans; Our victorious banners were already fluttering on the banks of the Dniester... but Catherine’s gaze was still searching for the Commander
worthy of Her trust and
great
intentions.
Here, in the same Keistut castle, the last meeting of the great
sovereign and famous
commander
.
This virtuous knight, a precious remnant of the ancient heroism of the Varangian princes, having earned an immortal name with the faithful Novgorod squad, brave and happy among us, left here both glory and happiness when he preferred the name of the great
Prince of Russia named after the Novogorod
commander
: not greatness, but humiliation and sorrow awaited Alexander in Vladimir - and the one who on the banks of the Neva gave laws to the brave Livonian knights had to fall at the feet of Sartak.
Synonyms for the phrase “great commanders”
outstanding commanders
brilliant commander
famous commander
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Sentences containing the phrase “great commanders”
- In the rays of pure, untarnished glory, as a great commander
and wise ruler, he stood before the court of the strictest contemporaries. - The cadets knew perfectly well that the emperor was not a great commander
- they simply could not help but know it. - According to legend, the great commander
of antiquity did not part with him on campaigns and battles. - (all offers)
The meaning of the word "great"
GREAT, oh, oh; -lik, -a, -o and -a, -o, great and great; greatest (to 1 and 2 meanings). 1. (short f. great, -о). Exceeding the usual measure, very large; huge. The greatest evil. (Small Academic Dictionary, MAS) See all meanings of the word GREAT
The meaning of the word "commander"
COMMANDER, -dtsa, m. Major military figure; military leader The great Russian commander Suvorov. Commanders of the Great Patriotic War. (Small Academic Dictionary, MAS) See all meanings of the word COMMANDER
Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great was so cool that he is revered by Muslims as a prophet.
Mastery of a sword and innate toughness helped him not only cut down all sorts of knots and enemies, but also conquer an empire, the size of which was almost half of the world known to the Hellenes. Thanks to Oliver Stone's film, most people think of him as a big-browed sodomy, but in reality Alexander is incredibly cool. “I see that there will be a great competition over my grave.”
“There are countless worlds in the universe, and I haven’t conquered one yet!”
“Wars depend on glory, and often a lie that is believed becomes the truth.”
"If I had not been Alexander, I would have become Diogenes."
“There cannot be two suns in the sky and two rulers on earth.”
“There is nothing more slavish than luxury and bliss, and nothing more royal than labor.”
“The more you have, the more greedily you strive for what you don’t have. Your war is born from victories.”
"I'm dying from too many doctors."
