"National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane."

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Source : "The Costs of War: America's Pyrrhic Victories". Book by John V. Denson, p. 488, 1999.

J. F. C. Fuller

#Kings Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Army Quotes

“Shopkeepers are not bankers.”
“I love the Dr.Hauschka range and use the cleanser, toner and moisturiser every day,”
“As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe consisted in the splitting up of the world into the realms of matter and mind, and the identification of 'mind' with conscious thinking. The result of this identification was the shallow rationalism of l' esprit Cartesien, and an impoverishment of psychology which it took three centuries to remedy even in part.”
“Diversity is its most consistent characteristic....The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity of the person or persons playing it.”
“Towards himself a Christian should have a broken spirit, but towards God it should be one of rejoicing always in Him. He rejoices not for its own sake nor because of any joyful experience, work, blessing or circumstance, but exclusively because God is his center.”
“Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.”
“Language is a virus, money is a nasty disease.”
“I've had different opportunities in my life, but I've tried to maintain the spirit of an amateur. Our culture roots everything in the barometer of success and how much money you make. But if you really just aspire to a life in the arts, it's really not a barometer at all.”

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