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.
If you are negotiating you must do so in a spirit of reconciliation, not from the point of view of issuing ultimatums.
At school he had done things which had formerly seemed to him very horrid and made him feel disgusted with himself when he did them; but when later on he saw that such actions were done by people of good position and that they did not regard them as wrong, he was able not exactly to regard them as right, but to forget about them entirely or not be at all troubled at remembering them.
To speak for others is to first silence those in whose name we speak
It is an absurd law [Section 295A of the Indian penal code] but also extremely dangerous because it gives fanatics, whether they are Hindus, Catholics or Muslims, a licence to be offended. It also allows people who are in dispute with you to make up false accusations of blasphemy.
What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.
Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.
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