B. H. Liddell Hart Quotes About Belief

• ...regrettable as it may seem to the idealist, the experience of history provides little warrant for the belief that real progress, and the freedom that makes progress possible, lies in unification. For where unification has been able to establish unity of ideas it has usually ended in uniformity, paralysing the growth of new ideas. And where the unification has merely brought about an artificial or imposed unity, its irksomeness has led through discord to disruption.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Real, Lying, Ideas

  B.H. Liddell Hart (2015). “Why Don't We Learn from History?”, p.76, Lulu Press, Inc

• In a campaign against more than one state or army, it is more fruitful to concentrate first against the weaker partner than to attempt the overthrow of the stronger in the belief that the latter's defeat will automatically involve the collapse of the others.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Army, Stronger

• Es una locura imaginar que los tipos agresivos, ya sean individuos o naciones, puedan ser comprados... ya que el pago de danegeld estimula la demanda de más danegeld. Pero se les puede frenar. Su propia fe en la fuerza les hace más susceptibles al efecto disuasorio de una formidable fuerza contraria.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Demand, Belief

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