Famous quotes containing the words combat and/or system:
“The combat ended for want of combatants.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)
“While the system of holding people in hostage is as old as the oldest war, a fresher note is introduced when a tyrannic state is at war with its own subjects and may hold any citizen in hostage with no law to restrain it.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)