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Erwin Rommel
“I would rather be the hammer than the anvil”
Erwin Rommel

“The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself. They are in a lose/lose situation. If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot. So here is a dilemma which others have suffered before us, and for which as far as I can see there is simply no escape.”
Martin Van Creveld, The Changing Face of War: Lessons of Combat, from the Marne to Iraq

Donald Keene
“He considered China’s interference in Korea to be an intolerable attempt to prevent the spread of enlightenment, and the war itself not merely a struggle between two countries but a “battle for the sake of world culture.”49”
Donald Keene, Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852–1912

H.L. Mencken
“Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.”
H. L. Mencken

H.L. Mencken
“One of the most irrational of all the conventions of modern society is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected. …[This] convention protects them, and so they proceed with their blather unwhipped and almost unmolested, to the great damage of common sense and common decency. that they should have this immunity is an outrage. There is nothing in religious ideas, as a class, to lift them above other ideas. On the contrary, they are always dubious and often quite silly. Nor is there any visible intellectual dignity in theologians. Few of them know anything that is worth knowing, and not many of them are even honest.”
H.L. Mencken, H.L. Mencken on Religion

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