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“...being in a position to know and nevertheless shunning knowledge creates direct responsibility for the consequences...”
― Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich

“You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.”
― Leon Trotsky

“The most hateful grief of all human griefs is this, to have knowledge of the truth but no power over the event.”
― Herodotus

“Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal, while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before”
― Herodotus, The Histories

“He asked, 'Croesus, who told you to attack my land and meet me as an enemy instead of a friend?'

The King replied, 'It was caused by your good fate and my bad fate. It was the fault of the Greek gods, who with their arrogance, encouraged me to march onto your lands. Nobody is mad enough to choose war whilst there is peace. During times of peace, the sons bury their fathers, but in war it is the fathers who send their sons to the grave.”
― Herodotus, The Histories

“They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor… They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.”
― Tacitus, The Agricola and The Germania

“The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.”
― Leon Trotsky, Their Morals and Ours: The Class Foundations of Moral Practice

“Tell me anyway--Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.”
― Leon Trotsky

“Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.”
― Leon Trotsky, Literature and Revolution

“Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.”
― Leon Trotsky