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Letter "T" » The Soldier
«The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. But, as in every army, the soldier obeys blindly, and the war aims and operating plans change without his knowledge. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play. There is no more appalling caricature of freedom of thought. Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to want to think, and this they consider freedom.»
Author: Oswald Spengler
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
aims, appalling, army officer, blindly, caricature, caricatured, caricatures, formerly, Journalists, obeys, officers, operating, permitted, purposes, readers, soldiers, the press, The Soldier, The War, without aim
«The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array.»
Author: Jeremy Bentham
(Activist, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
array, arraying, in full, primer, primers, schoolmaster, The Soldier
«Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.»
«The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| Keywords:
breeding, brute, cynic, disagreeable, everyone else, nitpicker, philosopher, scholar, soldier, The Philosopher, The Soldier
«It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands»
Author: Andre Gide
| About:
Army,
Persuasion,
Violence
| Keywords:
bandit, bandits, decent, fall from, fellows, massacre, persuade, The Soldier, urged
«OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus tells of a peasant who was occupied by a different devil for every day in the week, and on Sundays by two. They were frequently seen, always walking in his shadow, when he had one, but were finally driven away by the village notary, a holy man; but they took the peasant with them, for he vanished utterly. A devil thrown out of a woman by the Archbishop of Rheims ran through the trees, pursued by a hundred persons, until the open country was reached, where by a leap higher than a church spire he escaped into a bird. A chaplain in Cromwell's army exorcised a soldier's obsessing devil by throwing the soldier into the water, when the devil came to the surface. The soldier, unfortunately, did not.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Obsessions
| Keywords:
archbishop, Archbishop of, common soldier, Cromwell, escaped, evil spirit, exorcise, exorcised, High Church, holy man, holy person, notaries, notary, Obsessing, obsession, occupied, once more, peasant, Rheims, spire, spires, The Soldier, The Village, The Week, vanished, vexed, village
«Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure»
«Let the soldier yield to the civilian»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
civilians, The Soldier
«They said this mystery never shall cease: the priest promotes war, and the soldier peace»
«'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
balmy, slumbered, slumbering, slumbers, soldier, strife, The Soldier, Tis, waked
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