tactic Quotes

Since 9/11, the Justice Department has been widely criticized for one particular tactic it uses in fighting the War on Terror: it detains suspicious persons for long periods of time and puts them under heavy questioning before they are ever even charged with a crime.

Terrorism is a tactic in which the primary objective is to produce fear, rather than direct harm. Terrorist attacks are, first and foremost, psychological operations designed to alter behavior amongst the terrorized in a way that the actors believe will serve them.

Occupy was not a movement, it was a tactic. You can\'t sit forever in a park near Wall Street. You can\'t do it for more than a few months. It was a tactic I had not predicted. If people asked me, I would have said \'don\'t do it.\' But it was a great success, an enormous success, with a big impact on people\'s thinking, on people\'s actions.

Non-violence should be a tactic - not an ideology preached from the sidelines to victims of massive violence.

Populism is a crowd-pleasing tactic. (Anatoly Yurkin)

Existence is a tactic, being is a strategy. (Anatoly Yurkin)

\\'We were forced to adapt to the world. Countries that choose to adapt are getting richer. Our people are getting richer.\\' Lee Kuan Yew (Singapore) at 37 minutes of the third part of the documentary \\'Commanding heights\\'

In time to send is a tactic. Sending it to where it is necessary is a strategy. To send in time to where you want, the one you need is a talent.

A time-tested political tactic guaranteed to raise a president's popularity rating by at least 30 points. It is especially useful during election years and economic downturns.

Wall Street banks have used the same tactic that Bush used in the war on terror - fear - and they've basically said that if you don't do what we tell you, the sky will fall. If you don't do what we tell you, it will be the end of capitalism as we know it. The failure of Lehman Brothers lent some credence to those fears.

Not only has [Donlald] Trump adopted that tactic attacking usual suspects like The New York Times and The Washington Post, but he`s turning it back on the conservative media who invented it in the first place.

It's almost a standard tactic, really, to try to minimize any effort that people in the entertainment business or in any public occupation make to express themselves.

A good tactic is one your people enjoy.

I'm not into western medicine. That to me is a complete scare tactic.

Arson is the single most fundamental form of terrorism.It`s the simplest terrorist tactic.

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.

I believe in the basic goodness of my species, because that appears to be a positive tactic and quality that leads to better chances of survival- and in spite of our foolishness, we seem to have survived.

Moving first is a tactic, not a goal.

Sex sells, but doesn't work so well as a strong-arm tactic. Give me your purse or I'll make out with you so hard.

Civil disobedience's main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good tactic, sometimes not.

If it's a principle, it's a winner. If it's a tactic, it's a loser.

Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries .

A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.

A favorite pro-abortion tactic is to insist that the definition of when life begins is impossible; that the question is a theological or moral or philosophical one, anything but a scientific one. Fetology makes it undeniably evident that life begins at conception and requires all the protection and safeguards that any of us enjoy....As a scientist I know, not believe, know that human life begins at conception.

I remembered my little brother, Allyn, had appeared so innocent and angelic when he slept--similar to Kerrick. It must be a survival tactic. If Allyn hadn't looked so sweet, we would have killed him while he slept. He had been pure evil when he was awake--similar to Kerrick.

So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers.

If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan majority from voting on the President's judicial nominees.

A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.

I am not arguing that we should never use legal reform as a tactic. Instead, I argue that it should not be a goal.

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.