Hans von Seeckt famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The essential thing is action. Action has three stages: the decision born of thought, the order or preparation for execution, and the execution itself. All three stages are governed by the will. The will is rooted in character, and for the man of action character is of more critical importance than intellect. Intellect without will is worthless, will without intellect is dangerous.
-- Hans von Seeckt

#Character #Men #Order
What they are planning for us; sex, religion, money in the New World Order. Which is more corrupt? The liberal media or the multi-national corporations? Why truly big money wants your children to try drugs, even while they campaign to discourage these evils. How the brilliant scientists have come up with the proven methods to destroy your family. All you have to do is let your guard down.
-- Hans von Seeckt

#Sex #Children #Order
War is a bankruptcy of policy
-- Hans von Seeckt

#War #Policy #Bankruptcy
Mass becomes immobile; it cannot manoeuvre and therefore cannot win victories, it can only crush by sheer weight.
-- Hans von Seeckt

#Crush #Winning #Victory
War is not the continuation of policy. It is the breakdown of policy.
-- Hans von Seeckt

#War #Breakdown #Policy

Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.
You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer.
I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.
God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
The media no longer hesitate to whip up lurid anxieties in order to increase sales, in the process undermining social confidence and multiplying fears.
In order for the State in the person of school officials to justify prohibition of a particular expression of opinion, it must be able to show that its action was caused by something more than a mere desire to avoid the discomfort and unpleasantness that always accompany an unpopular viewpoint.
The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us to making available what we are already acquainted with.
There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.

Hans von Seeckt famous quotes

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