"When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war."

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Source : "Eleven Declarations of War". Book by Len Deighton, 1971.

Len Deighton

#War Quotes #Pride Quotes #Men Quotes

“They've got a great team, I really like them. They're a young team, and they've done what the Twins did in that division a few years ago. This is what happens when you get a core group of guys and let them play with each other for three, four years. You get a special bunch. They're having fun you can see it.”
“The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.”
“The ultimate objective [of comedy] is to get a laugh, so if you can get a laugh off the fact that you did not get a laugh, then you've kinda saved the moment. Other professions don't have that luxury. You don't want to hear a brain surgeon say, "Man, am I so stupid! I cut on the wrong side of your head!!"”
“General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.”
“To love is to live on the precipice.”
“I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist.”
“And I, the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.”
“Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.”

Source : 'Dèclaration des droits de l'homme' 24 April 1793, article 25

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