"War is a biological necessity of the first importance, a regulative element in the life of mankind which cannot be dispensed with. . . . But it is not only a biological law but a moral obligation, and, as such, an dispensable factor in civilization."

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Source : "Germany and the next War" by Friedrich von Bernhardi, (Ch. I), 1911.

Friedrich von Bernhardi

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“I'm not very enthusiastic about smaller nations forming their own states, particularly those in the West, where they would, after gaining 'independence', remain in the alliances that are oppressing and plundering the entire world: like NATO or the European Union. The breaking of the great country of Yugoslavia into small pieces was a hostile, evil design by the West. The dissolution of Czechoslovakia after the so-called "Velvet Revolution" was a total idiocy. But Catalonia, if it became independent, would become one of the richest parts of Europe.”
“The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate. When you communicate comfortably, regardless of what you're saying, it can always be processed.”
“I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke.”
“If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits”
“It is a myth that alcoholics have some spontaneous insight and then seek treatment. Victims of this disease do not submit to treatment out of spontaneous insight - typically, in our experience they come to their recognition scenes through a buildup of crises that crash through their almost impenetrable defense systems. They are forced to seek help; and when they don't, they perish miserably.”
“Look deep inside, and when you locate the sadness, give it a vacation, and focus on the simple things.”
“In fact, this is a blackmail of the terrorists at the expense of the suffering of the hostages.”

Source : Interview With Lucia Newman, www.cnn.com. January 8, 1997.
“Im not trying to hate on nobody.I love everybody that works towards what I was working towards.Its a hard game,its a hard life.”

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