„Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war.“
Addressing his troops prior to the Battle of Issus, as quoted in Anabasis Alexandri by Arrian Book II, 7
Kontext: Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves. There are Greek troops, to be sure, in Persian service — but how different is their cause from ours! They will be fighting for pay — and not much of at that; we, on the contrary, shall fight for Greece, and our hearts will be in it. As for our foreign troops — Thracians, Paeonians, Illyrians, Agrianes — they are the best and stoutest soldiers in Europe, and they will find as their opponents the slackest and softest of the tribes of Asia. And what, finally, of the two men in supreme command? You have Alexander, they — Darius!
Alexander der Große4
makedonischer Feldherr und König -356 - -323 v.ChrÄhnliche Zitate
— Warren Farrell author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate 1943
Quelle: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 112.
„[...] live hard not soft; eat hard not soft; seek fiber in foods and in life.“
— Helen Nearing American writer 1904 - 1995
Quelle: Simple Food for the Good Life (1980), Ch. 1
— Dan Quayle American politician, lawyer 1947
Press conference (15 September 1988), paraphrased in Esquire (August 1992), The New Yorker (10 October 1988), p. 102
— Karl Dönitz President of Germany; admiral in command of German submarine forces during World War II 1891 - 1980
The World at War: the Landmark Oral History from the Classic TV Series (2007) by Richard Holmes, Page 634.
— Kanan Makiya American orientalist 1949
"The Arab Spring started in Iraq", The New York Times (April 6, 2013)
— George Marshall US military leader, Army Chief of Staff 1880 - 1959
Essentials to Peace (1953)
Kontext: We have walked blindly, ignoring the lessons of the past, with, in our century, the tragic consequences of two world wars and the Korean struggle as a result.
In my country my military associates frequently tell me that we Americans have learned our lesson. I completely disagree with this contention and point to the rapid disintegration between 1945 and 1950 of our once vast power for maintaining the peace. As a direct consequence, in my opinion, there resulted the brutal invasion of South Korea, which for a time threatened the complete defeat of our hastily arranged forces in that field. I speak of this with deep feeling because in 1939 and again in the early fall of 1950 it suddenly became my duty, my responsibility, to rebuild our national military strength in the very face of the gravest emergencies.
— Alan M. Dershowitz American lawyer, author 1938
Interview by Dennis Prager in No Safe Spaces 2019 documentary. Clip from film published on Feb 12, 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc86fPirz3A
— Alfred North Whitehead English mathematician and philosopher 1861 - 1947
"The Education of an Englishman" in The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 138 (1926), p. 192.
1920s
— Melina Marchetta, buch Looking for Alibrandi
Quelle: Looking for Alibrandi
— Elena Ceaușescu Romanian politician 1916 - 1989
Statements at trial http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Transcript_of_the_closed_trial_of_Nicolae_and_Elena_Ceau%C5%9Fescu (25 December 1989)
„Friends and companions,
Have we not known hard hours before this?
My men, who have endured still greater dangers,
God will grant us an end to these as well.“
O socii—neque enim ignari sumus ante malorum—
O passi graviora, dabit deus his quoque finem.
— Virgil, Aeneid
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Lines 198–199 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald)
— Tony Blair former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1953
Martin Bentham, "You're the boss, Tony", The Sun, 28 May 1997, p. 2.
Speech at a summit in Paris between NATO and Russia, 27 May 1997.
1990s
— Warren Farrell author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate 1943
Quelle: The Boy Crisis (2018), pp. 36
— Lulu Wang Asian-American filmmaker
As quoted in "The Farewell writer-director Lulu Wang on the joys of laughing at human nature" in The Verge (17 July 2019) https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/17/20696611/the-farewell-writer-director-lulu-wang-interview-awkwafina
— Subramanian Swamy Indian politician 1939
On giving reservations to Muslims and Christians, as quoted in "Muslims and Christians shouldn't ask for reservation, says Subramanian Swamy" http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-muslims-and-christians-shouldn-t-ask-for-reservation-says-subramanian-swamy-1995886, DNA India (16 June 2014)
2011-2014
— John McCain politician from the United States 1936 - 2018
2000s, 2004, Speech at the Republican National Convention (2004)
