War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.
Interpretation
War requires thoughtful leadership beyond just military expertise.
This quote implies that the complexities and gravitas of war should not solely rely on military leaders who may focus too much on tactical aspects, instead, it necessitates the insights and wisdom of a broader leadership that considers the moral, political, and human elements involved in such serious decisions.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about the importance of political leaders in military decisions.
Monet's garden must be included with his works, because he combined the magic of an adaptation of nature with the work of a painter of light. An extension of the studio into the openair, with color tones lavishly spread out on all sides to exercise the eye with seductive vibrations, from which a feverishly aroused retina expects unquenchable joy.
I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.
A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. It is as if a tennis player before returning a ball stopped to think about his views of the physical and mental advantages of tennis. You must act as you breathe.
When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he isn't a man of action.
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.
I mean, knowing people, people are terrified of the unknown and they want to just kill the unknown.
The death penalty not only takes away the life of the person strapped to the table - it takes away a little bit of the humanity in each of us.
The vast majority, who believe in astrology and think that the planets have nothing better to do than form a code that will tell them whether tomorrow is a good day to close a business deal or not, become all the more excited and enthusiastic.
I feel I have a lot to learn from English football and I am completely open to good influences in my way of thinking football. But I also have things to give them.
Seen through the eyes of faith, religion's future is secure. As long as there are human beings, there will be religion for the sufficient reason that the self is a theomorphic creature - one whose morphe (form) is theos - God encased within it. Having been created in the imago Dei, the image God, all human beings have a God-shaped vacuum built into their hearts. Since nature abhors a vacuum, people keep trying to fill the one inside them.
Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
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