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“Modern warfare has become very complex, especially during the last century. Wars are won not by a simple series of battles won, but by a complex interrelationship among military victory, economic pressures, logistic maneuvering, access to the enemy’s information, political postures — dozens, literally dozens of factors.”
― The Forever War #1
― The Forever War #1
“The enemy was a tangible thing, a propagandist’s monster whom you could understand, whom you could hate.”
― The Forever War
― The Forever War
“Louis XVI was executed because they considered him a criminal, and a year later they executed those who executed him—also for some reason. What is bad? What is good? What should one love and what hate? What does one live for? And what am I? What is life, and what is death? What power governs all?”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“it is necessary to be a fox to discover the snares and a lion to terrify the wolves.”
― The Prince
― The Prince
“Le bourgeois aime l'ordre qui lui permet de poursuivre ses affaires en toute sérénité. Son cœur bat dans son portefeuille, et à ce dernier il sacrifie sans remords tout sentiment social plus profond. Avec la révoltante avidité du parvenu, il essaie de se rendre maître de tout ce qui l'entoure et de l'abaisser à son niveau ; intellectuellement limité, plébéien et lourdeau dans ses manières, tout en rondeur et content de lui, c'est un véritable Philistin ; mais il est prêt à toutes les vilenies s'il croit ses biens menacés.”
― NATIONALISME ET CULTURE
― NATIONALISME ET CULTURE
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