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A quotation from Von Clausewitz

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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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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Show threadHistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴Mar 14, 2023

@IAm_THEPaulina

I would not agree with this stand-alone statement either.

Ideas can be intoxicating, boring, be the flame of a revolution, etc.

All I am saying is that books are not weapons, even if some books have been #weaponized (e. g. #TheBible, #Koran, #TheArtOfWar, #VomKriege, #OnTheOriginOfTheSpieces, #MeinKampf, #ManifestDerKommunistischenPartei, #LittleRedBook, etc. etc.)

This is what I mean with "neutral". The "evil" starts with (criminal) intent and requires an act.