Chella

“Anyone who falls into the habit of thinking and expecting the best of his subordinates at all times is, for that reason alone, unsuited to command an army”
― Carl von Clausewitz, On War

“Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds, it is a fallacy that must be exposed; war is such a dangerous business that the mistakes which come from kindness are the very worst.”
― Carl von Clausewitz

“All of us, in words that contradict each other, express at bottom the same exalted impulse. What sets us against one another is not our aims—they all come to the same thing—but our methods, which are the fruit of our varied reasoning.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey: Night Flight, Wind Sand and Stars, and Flight to Arras—three classic tales of daring pilots in aviation's pioneer era

“The air smelled of a limited life expectancy.”
― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms