Source: The Self Awakened: Pragmatism Unbound (2007), p. 233
“Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.”
Part 2, Section 2, Chapter 12
L'espoir [Man's Hope] (1938)
Context: There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one, and that is to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.
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Il n'y a pas cinquante manières de combattre, il n'y en a qu'une, c'est d'être vainqueur. Ni la révolution ni la guerre ne consistent à se plaire à soi-même.
L'espoir [Man's Hope] (1938)
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