“[…]you don’t have to be Sun freakin Tzu to know that real fighting isn’t about killing or even hurting the other guy, it’s about scaring him enough to call it a day.”

—  Max Brooks , book World War Z

Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

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