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Courage is of two kinds: courage in the face of personal danger, and courage to accept responsibility, either before the tribunal of some outside power or before the court of one’s own conscience.

[Der Muth ist doppelter Art: einmal Muth gegen die persönliche Gefahr, und dann Muth gegen die Verantwortlichkeit, sei es vor drm Richterstuhl irgend einer äussern Macht, oder der innern, nämlich des Gewissens.]

Karl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) Prussian soldier, historian, military theorist
On War [Vom Kriege], Book 1, ch. 3 “On Military Genius [Der Kriegerische Genius],” (1.3) (1832) [tr. Howard & Paret (1976)]

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Von Clausewitz, Karl - On War [Vom Kriege], Book 1, ch. 3 "On Military Genius [Der Kriegerische Genius]," (1.3) (1832) [tr. Howard & Paret (1976)] | WIST Quotations

Courage is of two kinds: courage in the face of personal danger, and courage to accept responsibility, either before the tribunal of some outside power or before the court of one's own conscience. [Der Muth ist doppelter Art: einmal Muth gegen die persönliche Gefahr, und dann Muth gegen die Verantwortlichkeit,…

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PugJesus May 18

Thanks Clausewitz, your wisdom echoes throughout the ages

PugJesus May 18

Thanks Clausewitz, your wisdom echoes throughout the ages

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2072215/thanks-clausewitz-your-wisdom-echoes-throughout-the-ages

azteclady Apr 7

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Carl Sagan, on Cosmos (1980), partial transcript from clip below:
"And the world impoverishes itself by spending a trillion dollars a year in preparations for war and by employing perhaps half the scientists and high technologists in the planet, in military endeavors...We have heard the rationales offered by the super powers, we know who speaks for the nations. But who speaks for the human species, who speaks for Earth?"

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