Mordechai Rackover

“Potiorek was a bachelor who had devoted his life monastically to his profession, while remaining ignorant of every aspect of it that was either modern or important;”
― Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War

“Abakumov was cleverer than Yakonov supposed. It was just that prolonged lack of exercise had rendered the minister’s brain useless to him.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, In the First Circle