Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
(zh-CN) 军队须和民众打成一片,使军队在民众眼睛中看成是自己的军队,这个军队便无敌于天下,个把日本帝国主义是不够打的。
1930s, On Protracted Warfare (1938)
Up Front (1945)
Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
(zh-CN) 军队须和民众打成一片,使军队在民众眼睛中看成是自己的军队,这个军队便无敌于天下,个把日本帝国主义是不够打的。
1930s, On Protracted Warfare (1938)
Erich von Manstein (1887–1973) German general
To Leon Goldensohn (14 June 1946). Quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
Timothy McVeigh (1968–2001) American army soldier, security guard, terrorist
To his mother (1997), as quoted in American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0060394072 (2001), by Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck, New York: ReganBooks (HarperCollins), p. 347. <br class="br">1990s
“Every time I touch a wound, an army of influential people turns against me.”
Jair Bolsonaro (1955) Brazilian president elect
In a speech to businessmen in Rio de Janeiro, on 20 May 2019. Brazil's Bolsonaro says political class is an impediment https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-politics/brazils-bolsonaro-says-political-class-is-an-impediment-idUSKCN1SQ1VA. Reuters (20 May 2019).
“Thank God for the French army.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
When we read about Germany, when we watch with surprise and distress the tumultuous insurgence of ferocity and war spirit, the pitiless ill-treatment of minorities, the denial of the normal protections of civilised society to large numbers of individuals solely on the ground of race—when we see that occurring in one of the most gifted, learned, scientific and formidable nations in the world, one cannot help feeling glad that the fierce passions that are raging in Germany have not found, as yet, any other outlet but upon themselves. It seems to me that, at a moment like this, to ask France to halve her army while Germany doubles hers...to ask France to halve her air force while the German air force remains whatever it is...such a proposal, it seems to me, is likely to be considered by the French Government at present, at any rate, as somewhat unseasonable. <br class="br"> Speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1933/mar/23/european-situation#S5CV0276P0_19330323_HOC_299 in the House of Commons (23 March 1933) shortly after Hitler became Chancellor <br class="br">The 1930s
“The army must become one with the people so that they see it as their own army.”
Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
Such an army will be invincible....
On Protracted Warfare (1938)
“Get jailed, jump bail
Join the army, if you fail”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Subterranean Homesick Blues
Antonio Negri book Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire
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Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire