— Nathanael Greene American general in the American Revolutionary War 1742 - 1786
Letter to George Washington (November 1779)
„The distribution of troops devoted to the defence of a place includes a garrison, an occupying force, numerically as weak as possible; a reserve as strong as possible, designed for counterattacking and for providing itself, at the moment it goes into action, with a security service which will guard it from any possible surprise.“
Quelle: Precepts and Judgments (1919), p. 147
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Ferdinand Foch2
Marschall von Frankreich im Ersten Weltkrieg 1851 - 1929Ähnliche Zitate
Conclusion of his report on the failure of the Gallipoli campaign.
Quoted in "The Economist", 8th October 2011, p. 69
— Michelle Malkin American political commentator 1970
America’s Empty Slogan: “See Something, Say Something” http://michellemalkin.com/2013/04/17/americas-empty-slogan-see-something-say-something/ (April 17, 2013)
— Ulysses S. Grant 18th President of the United States 1822 - 1885
At Vicksburg (11 July 1863), as quoted in Words of our Hero: Ulysses S. Grant https://archive.org/stream/wordsofourheroul00gran/wordsofourheroul00gran_djvu.txt, edited by Jeremiah Chaplin, Boston: D. Lothrop and Company, p. 13.
1860s
— Friedrich Paulus German general 1890 - 1957
Radio message to Adolf Hitler, January 24, 1943. Quoted in "The World Changers" - Page 171 - by Bruce Bliven - 1965
— W. Douglas P. Hill British Indologist 1884 - 1962
Quelle: The Bhagavadgītā (1973), p. 75. (10.)
— Sadao Araki Japanese general 1877 - 1966
Quoted in "President Proposes" - Time Magazine - July 4, 1932
— Richard A. Horsley Biblical scholar 1939
Quelle: Religion and Empire: People, Power, and the Life of the Spirit (2003), p. 51
— Albert Schweitzer French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher 1875 - 1965
Kulturphilosophie (1923), Vol. 2 : Civilization and Ethics
Kontext: Affirmation of the world, which means affirmation of the will-to-live that manifests itself around me, is only possible if I devote myself to other life. From an inner necessity, I exert myself in producing values and practising ethics in the world and on the world even though I do not understand the meaning of the world. For in world- and life-affirmation and in ethics I carry out the will of the universal will-to-live which reveals itself in me. I live my life in God, in the mysterious divine personality which I do not know as such in the world, but only experience as mysterious Will within myself.
Rational thinking which is free from assumptions ends therefore in mysticism. To relate oneself in the spirit of reverence for life to the multiform manifestations of the will-to-live which together constitute the world is ethical mysticism. All profound world-view is mysticism, the essence of which is just this: that out of my unsophisticated and naïve existence in the world there comes, as a result of thought about self and the world, spiritual self-devotion to the mysterious infinite Will which is continuously manifested in the universe.
„The demolition of a temple is possible at any time, as it cannot walk away from its place.“
— Aurangzeb Sixth Mughal Emperor 1618 - 1707
Aurangzeb to Zullfiqar Khan and Mughal Khan. Kalimat-i-Tayyibat, quoted in Sarkar, Jadu Nath, History of Aurangzeb, Vol. III, p. 188. quoted in Shourie, Arun (2014). Eminent historians: Their technology, their line, their fraud. Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India : HarperCollins Publishers.
Quotes from late medieval histories
„The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.“
— George Bernard Shaw Irish playwright 1856 - 1950
— Dejan Stojanovic poet, writer, and businessman 1959
Possibility http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/possibility-3/
From the poems written in English
— Eric Roll, Baron Roll of Ipsden British economist 1907 - 2005
Quelle: A History of Economic Thought (1939), Chapter VII, The Transition, p. 357
— Richard Leakey Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and politician 1944
The Origin of Humankind (1994)
„Even the impossible becomes possible through devotion.“
— Sarada Devi Hindu religious figure, spiritual consort of Ramakrishna 1853 - 1920
[Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations, 229]
