Eric S. Nylund famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Honer and self sacrifice. Death does not diminish these qualities in a soldier. We shall remember.
-- Eric S. Nylund

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A leader must be ready to send the soldiers under his command to their deaths
-- Eric S. Nylund

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I assume this is all part of some brutally simplistic plan you've thought up?" "Yes." "Oh, good.
-- Eric S. Nylund

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Life is the path. Can the path be seen? Observe the path and you are far from it. Without observation how can one know they are on the path? The path cannot be seen, nor can it not be unseen. Perception is delusion; abstraction is nonsensical. Your path is freedom. Name it and it vanishes.
-- Eric S. Nylund

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The whole history of Israel, its ritual and its government, is explicable only as it is typical of the spiritual Israel, of the sacrifice on Calvary, of the precious blood which alone can wash away sin.
The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?
Nature knows no political boundaries. She puts living creatures on this globe and watches the free play of forces. She then confers the master's right on her favourite child, the strongest in courage and industry ... The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness. Only the born weakling can view this as cruel.
The sacrifice of personal existence is necessary to secure the preservation of the species.
I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.
When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).
After 15 years of work I have achieved, as a common German soldier and merely with my fanatical willpower, the unity of the German nation, and have freed it from the death sentence of Versailles.
A soldier's first duty is to obey, otherwise you might as well do away with soldiering.
Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.
The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.

Eric S. Nylund famous quotes

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