Eternal peace is a dream, and not even a beautiful one, and war is a link in God's world order. In him, the noblest virtues of man, courage and renunciation, devotion to duty and willingness to sacrifice, unfold with the institution of life. Without the war, the world would become bogged down in materialism.

Der ewige Friede ist ein Traum, und nicht einmal ein schöner, und der Krieg ist ein Glied in Gottes Weltordnung. In ihm entfalten sich die edelsten Tugenden des Menschen, Mut und Entsagung, Pflichttreue und Opferwilligkeit mit Einsetzung des Lebens. Ohne den Krieg würde die Welt im Materialismus versumpfen

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

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Praise of war War

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Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

Medium

Letter

Language

German

Time

1880 1880s 19th century

Occupation

General Soldier

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Germany Europe

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Citation

Von Moltke, Helmuth. Letter to Johann Caspar Bluntschli. 11 Dec. 1880.

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Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

Henry James

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Experience

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Henry James
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The Art of Fiction Longman's Magazine
Medium
Essay Magazine
Language
English
Time
1884 1880s 19th century
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James, Henry. "The Art of Fiction." Longman's Magazine. London: C. J. Longman, 4 Sept. 1884.

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James, Henry. "The Art of Fiction." The Portable Henry James. Penguin Classics, 2003.

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Terminate...with extreme prejudice.

Apocalypse Now

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War
Speaker
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Actor
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Source
Apocalypse Now
Medium
Film
Genre
Psychological drama (film) War (film) Psychological drama War
Statement Type
Orders and commands
Language
English
Time
1979 1970s 20th century
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Apocolypse Now. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Omni Zoetrope, 1979.

Another quote originally in German

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success with it.

Sigmund Freud

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Effects of childhood Mothers and sons

Author

Sigmund Freud
Genre
Psychological literature
Language
German
Time
1917 1910s 20th century
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Original Citation

Freud, Sigmund. "Eine Kindheitserinnerung aus 'Dichtung und Wahrheit [A Childhood Recollection from 'Dichtung und Warheit [Poetry and Truth].'" Zeitschrift für Anwendung der Psychoanalyse auf die Geisteswissenschaften [Journal of the Application of Psychoanalysis to the Humanities]. Vol. 5, 1917, pp. 49–57.

Current Citation

Freud, Sigmund. "A Childhood Recollection from 'Dichtung Und Wahrheit.'" The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: An Infantile Neurosis and Other Works, translated by James Strachey. Vol. 17, Vintage, 2001.