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quotes by topic Army

" Just as the 99% of Soviet citizens who supported the Soviet regime in 1985 was no indication of what the people inside the USSR really thought, the army of true believers that we think we see in the Arab world is an illusion. "

Natan Sharansky

People , World , Thought , Illusion , Army

" An army marches on its stomach. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

Army

" The army is the true nobility of our country. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

Country , Nobility , Army

" At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets. "

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Injustice , Army , Repression

" Not long ago, if you wanted to seize political power in a country you had merely to control the army and the police. Today it is only in the most backward countries that fascist generals, in carrying out a coup d'état, still use tanks. If a country has reached a high degree of industrialization the whole scene changes.... Today a country belongs to the person who controls communications. "

Country , Communication , Army

" The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. "

Selfishness , Unhappiness , Army

" Me and apparently a lot of other people felt that the people who should benefit most from the country are the people who contribute the most, which is the middle class, who are drafted into the army, spend three years there and 25 years in the reserves. That is why I had enough votes to create out of nowhere the second-largest party in the country. "

Country , Party , Army

" [About Jews] Among other nations, the vital problems are: a good crop, extension of the boundaries, strong armies, colonies; among us, if we wish to be true to ourselves, the vital questions are: conscience, freedom, culture, ethics. "

Army , Strong , Wish

" The army will hear nothing of politics from me and in return I expect to hear nothing of politics from the army. "

Army

" When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire, or be wasted in futile frontal attacks. "

War , Army

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