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-->-- '''[[Creator/LeoTolstoy,]]''' ''The Kingdom of God is Within You''

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-->-- '''[[Creator/LeoTolstoy,]]''' '''Creator/LeoTolstoy,''' ''The Kingdom of God is Within You''
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->''“That this social order with its pauperism, famines, prisons, gallows, armies, and wars is necessary to society; that still greater disaster would ensue if this organization were destroyed; all this is said only by those who profit by this organization, while those who suffer from it – and they are ten times as numerous – think and say quite the contrary.”''
-->-- '''[[Creator/LeoTolstoy,]]''' ''The Kingdom of God is Within You''
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-> ''An army is a tool for violence. There are two types of violence. Violence as a means of control, and that as a means of liberation. What [[TheFederation the Free Planets Alliance]] has that is called the National Army is an example of the former. Sorry, but history does not lie. When the government clashes with public opinion, the military rarely sides with the people. In every age of history, they form a power structure and control the people with violence.''

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-> ''An ''“An army is a tool for violence. There are two types of violence. Violence as a means of control, and that as a means of liberation. What [[TheFederation the Free Planets Alliance]] has that is called the National Army is an example of the former. Sorry, but history does not lie. When the government clashes with public opinion, the military rarely sides with the people. In every age of history, they form a power structure and control the people with violence.''”''
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-> ''An army is a tool for violence. There are two types of violence. Violence as a means of control, and that as a means of liberation. What [[TheFederarion the Free Planets Alliance]] has that is called the National Army is an example of the former. Sorry, but history does not lie. When the government clashes with public opinion, the military rarely sides with the people. In every age of history, they form a power structure and control the people with violence.''

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-> ''An army is a tool for violence. There are two types of violence. Violence as a means of control, and that as a means of liberation. What [[TheFederarion [[TheFederation the Free Planets Alliance]] has that is called the National Army is an example of the former. Sorry, but history does not lie. When the government clashes with public opinion, the military rarely sides with the people. In every age of history, they form a power structure and control the people with violence.''

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-> ''An army is a tool for violence. There are two types of violence. Violence as a means of control, and that as a means of liberation. What [[TheFederarion the Free Planets Alliance]] has that is called the National Army is an example of the former. Sorry, but history does not lie. When the government clashes with public opinion, the military rarely sides with the people. In every age of history, they form a power structure and control the people with violence.''
-->-- ''Literature/LegendOfTheGalacticHeroes'', '''Yang Wenli''' explaining the purpose of military power.

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->''Atro had once explained to him how this was managed, how the sergeants could give the privates orders, how the lieutenants could give the privates and the sergeants orders, how the captains ...and so on and so on up to the generals, who could give everyone else orders and need take them from none, except the commander in chief. Shevek had listened with incredulous disgust. “You call that organization?” he had inquired. “You even call it discipline? But it is neither. It is a coercive mechanism of extraordinary inefficiency — a kind of seventh-millennium steam engine! With such a rigid and fragile structure what could be done that was worth doing?” This had given Atro a chance to argue the worth of warfare as the breeder of courage and manliness and the weeder-out of the unfit, but the very line of his argument had forced him to concede the effectiveness of guerrillas, organized from below, self-disciplined. “But that only works when the people think they're fighting for something of their own — you know, their homes, or some notion or other,” the old man had said. Shevek had dropped the argument. He now continued it, in the darkening basement among the stacked crates of unlabeled chemicals. He explained to Atro that he now understood why the army was organized as it was. It was indeed quite necessary. No rational form of organization would serve the purpose. He simply had not understood that the purpose was to enable men with machine guns to kill unarmed men and women easily and in great quantities when told to do so. Only he still could not see where courage, or manliness, or fitness entered in.''
-->-- '''Shevek''', ''Literature/TheDispossessed''

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->''Atro ->Atro had once explained to him how this was managed, how the sergeants could give the privates orders, how the lieutenants could give the privates and the sergeants orders, how the captains ...and so on and so on up to the generals, who could give everyone else orders and need take them from none, except the commander in chief. Shevek had listened with incredulous disgust. “You call that organization?” he had inquired. “You even call it discipline? But it is neither. It is a coercive mechanism of extraordinary inefficiency — a kind of seventh-millennium steam engine! With such a rigid and fragile structure what could be done that was worth doing?” This had given Atro a chance to argue the worth of warfare as the breeder of courage and manliness and the weeder-out of the unfit, but the very line of his argument had forced him to concede the effectiveness of guerrillas, organized from below, self-disciplined. “But that only works when the people think they're fighting for something of their own — you know, their homes, or some notion or other,” the old man had said. Shevek had dropped the argument. He now continued it, in the darkening basement among the stacked crates of unlabeled chemicals. He explained to Atro that he now understood why the army was organized as it was. It was indeed quite necessary. No rational form of organization would serve the purpose. He simply had not understood that the purpose was to enable men with machine guns to kill unarmed men and women easily and in great quantities when told to do so. Only he still could not see where courage, or manliness, or fitness entered in.''
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-->-- '''Shevek''', ''Literature/TheDispossessed''



->"A guardian is a symbol of comfort, but an army is a symbol of conflict. There's an energy in the air now, a question in the back of everyone's minds: If ''this'' is the size of our defenses, what is it we're expecting to fight?"

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->"A ->''"A guardian is a symbol of comfort, but an army is a symbol of conflict. There's an energy in the air now, a question in the back of everyone's minds: If ''this'' is the size of our defenses, what is it we're expecting to fight?"fight?"''
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->''Atro had once explained to him how this was managed, how the sergeants could give the privates orders, how the lieutenants could give the privates and the sergeants orders, how the captains ...and so on and so on up to the generals, who could give everyone else orders and need take them from none, except the commander in chief. Shevek had listened with incredulous disgust. “You call that organization?” he had inquired. “You even call it discipline? But it is neither. It is a coercive mechanism of extraordinary inefficiency — a kind of seventh-millennium steam engine! With such a rigid and fragile structure what could be done that was worth doing?” This had given Atro a chance to argue the worth of warfare as the breeder of courage and manliness and the weeder-out of the unfit, but the very line of his argument had forced him to concede the effectiveness of guerrillas, organized from below, self-disciplined. “But that only works when the people think they're fighting for something of their own — you know, their homes, or some notion or other,” the old man had said. Shevek had dropped the argument. He now continued it, in the darkening basement among the stacked crates of unlabeled chemicals. He explained to Atro that he now understood why the army was organized as it was. It was indeed quite necessary. No rational form of organization would serve the purpose. He simply had not understood that the purpose was to enable men with machine guns to kill unarmed men and women easily and in great quantities when told to do so. Only he still could not see where courage, or manliness, or fitness entered in.''
-->-- '''Shevek''', ''Literature/TheDispossessed''
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-->-- '''Professor Ozpin''', Ozpin''' to '''James Ironwood''', ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}''
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->"There are no innocent civilians. It is their government and you are fighting a people, you are not trying to fight an armed force anymore. So it doesn't bother me so much to be killing the so-called innocent bystanders."
-->--'''[=Curtis LeMay=]'''
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->"A guardian is a symbol of comfort, but an army is a symbol of conflict. There's an energy in the air now, a question in the back of everyone's minds: If 'this'' is the size of our defenses, what is it we're expecting to fight?"

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->"A guardian is a symbol of comfort, but an army is a symbol of conflict. There's an energy in the air now, a question in the back of everyone's minds: If 'this'' ''this'' is the size of our defenses, what is it we're expecting to fight?"
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->"There are no innocent civilians. It is their government and you are fighting a people, you are not trying to fight an armed force anymore. So it doesn't bother me so much to be killing the so-called innocent bystanders."
-->--'''[=Curtis LeMay=]'''

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