“Natural hazards, however formidable, are inherently less dangerous and less uncertain than fighting hazards. All conditions are more calculable, all obstacles more surmountable than those of human resistance.” HumansFightingNaturalConditionsMilitaryDangerousObstaclesResistanceUncertainHazardsFormidable Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
“In war the chief incalculable is the human will, which manifests itself in resistance, which in turn lies in the province of tactics. Strategy has not to overcome resistance, except from nature. Its purpose is to diminish the possibility of resistance, and it seeks to fulfil this purpose by exploiting the elements of movement and surprise.” HumansWarLyingPurposeTurnsMilitaryMovementPossibilityElementsOvercomingStrategySurpriseResistanceChiefsDiminishTacticsProvincesHuman Will Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
“I must confess that I am deeply troubled. I fear that human beings are intent upon acting out a vast deathwish and that it lies with us now to make every effort to promote resistance to the insanity and brutality of policies which encompass the extermination of hundreds of millions of human beings.” HumansLyingHuman BeingsEffortActingMillionsPolicyResistanceInsanityBrutalityExterminationActing Out Book:The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell Source: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell
“Human character is never found "to enter into its glory," except through the ordeal of affliction. Its force cannot come forth without the offer of resistance, nor can the grandeur of its free will declare itself, except in the battle of fierce temptation.” HumansCharacterFoundForceBattleOffersGloryResistanceTemptationFree WillFierceAfflictionGrandeurOrdeals Book:Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons Source: Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons